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About us

We are a global organization. To provide the best possible service to our customers around the globe our business is operated through four Business Units (BU). We strongly feel that our entrepreneurial approach with BUs allows for more flexibility to deal with the needs of our customer and makes us more responsive and effective than anybody else in this field. Our BUs can be found in Europe/America, Asia / Middle East / Africa, China and Mexico / Latin America.

Our history
1870The company is founded as the "Nederlandse Gist- en Spiritusfabriek".
1879First Dutch company to found a workers council.
1940Production of Penicillin G starts (initially under the code name BACINOL). SSP's and SSC's follow soon.
1970sRise to become the world's no. 1 Penicillin G producer as "Gist-brocades".
1990sGlobal expansion of the production and sales network through acquisitions and JV's.
1998DSM acquires Gist-brocades. The newly formed leader in β-lactam antibiotics is called DSM Anti-Infectives (DAI).
2003Purimox® is introduced to the world. It is the first enzymatically produced Amoxicillin. Purimox® is the first member of the DSMPureActives™ family of enzymatically produced Antibiotic APIs.
2005Restructuring of global business in four regional Business Units, aiming to further increase our service towards the customer.
2011In a Joint Venture Sinochem of China acquires 50% of DAI from DSM to form DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals.
  

 

 


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