Saltigo strives to focus more on business opportunities in India

“In 2016, Saltigo participated for the sixth consecutive time at Chemspec India. This expresses the importance of the market potential, India has for Saltigo as a market and we will further expand our activities in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical segments and strengthen our business with selected multi-customer products. In October last year, Saltigo announced a 60 Mio€ investment in additional production capacity at its site in Leverkusen, Germany. We have also been successful in attracting customers from the specialty chemicals segment, where outsourcing is not yet a common practice, to our portfolio,” says Torsten Derr, Managing Director of Saltigo GmbH, summarizing the company's plans. At Chemspec India 2016, which held in Mumbai from April 7 to 8, the company presenting its comprehensive expertise and longstanding experience as a reliable custom manufacturing service provider and producer of multi-customer products.

 

Combining an exhibition and conferences, this tradeshow is an important event in India offering buyers and sellers of high-quality chemicals, based on complex synthesis requirements, the opportunity to develop new business partnerships further and to initiate new business. “This year is the sixth year we have participated. We are confident that this underlines the value we place on this important market and that our participation presents our company as a professional and reliable supplier of chemical intermediates and partner for custom synthesis and manufacturing with an efficient project management. Saltigo can be seen as a problem solver capable of shortening time to market, which is nowadays an important differentiation factor in the chemical industry seeking growth in India,” says Christoph Schaffrath, Head of Agro at Saltigo.

 

While in the past, India has been seen as a target for procurement and sourcing, the country is nowadays also a rapidly expanding market in the field of fine chemicals and active ingredients for pharmaceutical and crop protection applications. “We can support growth in custom manufacturing in particular, as this is our core competence,” says Dirk Sandri, Head of Fine Chemicals at Saltigo. Key areas of expertise here include phosgenation and halogenation such as reactions involving hydrogen fluoride or phosphorus chlorides and the Halex reaction. Further examples are metal organic syntheses, e.g. by means of a Grignard reaction, which is run at Saltigo in a multi-1000 ton-scale including the production of the reagent.

 

“Also for our multi-customer products such as phosgene derivatives or 1,2,4-triazole, India is an important market. In addition, we are setting our sights in particular on innovative companies specializing in photovoltaics, polymers, lubricants, flavor and fragrances and biocides,” he adds.

 

In addition, Saltigo is awaiting the registration of its insect repellent Saltidin (chemical name Icaridin) in India. Insect repellents containing the active ingredient of Saltigo protect against infection with dangerous diseases, like the Zika virus or dengue fever, by keeping mosquitoes at bay. In Latin America’s largest country Brazil, for example, the Zika virus is currently causing great concern and led the Brazilian authorities to declare a health emergency at the end of 2015. Saltigo has reacted fast to the increased demand by increasing significantly the production capacity and has taken measures for additional capacity expansion.