Evonik

Evonik is one of the world’s leading specialty chemicals companies with a major focus on healthcare solutions. Its Health Care business unit serves over a thousand life science customers globally—including more than ninety percent of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies—by providing advanced excipients, proprietary drug delivery technologies, cell culture solutions, and comprehensive CDMO/CMO services. The company has decades-long expertise in oral and parenteral drug delivery systems such as EUDRAGIT®, RESOMER®, lipid-based formulations for mRNA therapeutics/vaccines, high-purity amino acids/proteins/peptides for cell culture media and bioprocessing. It played an important role during the COVID pandemic by supplying critical lipids used in mRNA vaccines. Recent investments include new R&D hubs in Boston/Cambridge MA and Allentown PA plus large-scale lipid production facilities to support next-generation medicines.