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Top U.S. Grants for Specialty Chemical Manufacturers
Getting a specialty chemicals startup off the ground in the U.S. used to feel like scaling a cliff with no rope. Capital requirements are steep, regulatory barriers are complex, and private investors often avoid the sector unless there’s a clear pharma tie-in. But that story is starting to change. Thanks to a surge in federal…
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Overcoming Operational Issues in CMOs and Small Pharma: Individualized Approaches for Growth and Efficiency
Across the ever-evolving pharmaceutical market, CMOs and small pharma companies are under immense pressure to deliver a high quality product quickly and economically while still achieving complex regulatory requirements. These operational issues — from inefficiencies in the production process to disruptions in the supply chain — can severely limit their capacity to compete and expand. These obstacles…
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How to Shorten Changeover Times for Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing: The SMED Method
With a specialty chemicals business – where batch sizes are small, custom formulas and strict quality requirements are common – changeover time is often a major bottleneck. For every minute of switching from one batch of product to another, production time, resources and prices go up. The Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), a lean manufacturing…
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Optimization of Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing: How to Value Stream Map it Using A Table Of Contents
Efficiency in operations is the secret to the specialty chemicals success. This industry has intricate workflows, strict regulatory compliance, and custom-tailored solutions which mean there are always special issues that need to be solved in a different way. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is one of them — a lean methodology used to discover inefficiencies, automate processes, and…
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Operational Excellence: More Than Efficiency in Specialty Chemicals
It is a new way to optimize organizational performance, especially in such a dynamic industry as specialty chemicals. Though frequently thought of as efficiency, operational excellence is about more than just saving money and optimizing processes. It is a totality strategy that brings continuous improvement, innovation and flexibility to the foundation of a company’s culture…
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Gaining Efficiency: The Business Case for Lean in Specialty Chemicals
Gaining Potential: Why Lean Is Important in Specialty Chemicals It is the most complicated and challenging manufacturing field: specialty chemicals. Unlike generic chemicals, specialty chemicals tend to be specialized to incredibly niche needs and use very specific formulations, very strict manufacturing and quality control. Such different needs create challenges and possibilities for organizations that wish…
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How Consultants Drive Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Setting the Stage: The Power of Operational Excellence Did you know that the life sciences industry could reduce cost by up to 30% just by applying operational excellence measures? That’s an utter step up in an industry where margins are small and time is of the essence. In the life sciences, speed counts. No efficiencies,…