Kemira

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water-intensive industries, including pulp & paper, water treatment, and specialty chemicals. It formerly supplied acetate and formic acid products for the pharmaceutical industry but largely divested direct pharma manufacturing solutions in 2013. Kemira's recent focus in biotech is on enzyme-catalyzed polymer production for packaging and water sectors through exclusive partnerships with firms like IFF and DuPont. Kemira is not a biotech, pharma, or CRO company; it is an industrial chemical company. While it develops biotechnology-enabled polymer technologies, these target material sciences and packaging, not health or therapeutics.