Petersburg / Virginia, USA

Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals Inc.

Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals Inc. in Petersburg, Virginia, produces active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates. The company has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies since 1991.

Profile
USA

Production in Petersburg is carried out in FDA-inspected and DEA-approved cGMP facilities. Excellent equipment utilisation of a four-shift system, together with a flexible organisation, ensures an attractive production environment and a favourable response time. The site covers a total area of 800,000 m², of which only 20 percent has so far been developed. A major expansion project is underway which will lead to additional active ingredient manufacturing capacity by 2009.

Services
  • large-scale custom manufacturing of APIs and intermediates
  • process development and optimisation, supported by development laboratories and in process/analytical control departments
  • full regulatory support
  • conduction of stability programmes for bulk APIs

Production profile

Products are manufactured for the pharmaceutical industry and Boehringer Ingelheim´s captive use. In addition to our standard product programme, capacity is available for custom manufacturing of APIs and advanced intermediates.

Production programme
  • guaifenesin
  • methocarbamol
  • guanine
  • calcium polycarbophil
  • brompheniramine maleate
  • metoclopramide
  • doxapram
  • glycopyrrolate
  • diacetone fructose
  • nevirapine
  • methadone
  • acetylmethadol HCl

Applied reactions and special operations
  • Most kinds of common chemical reactions