ABA Chemicals, also known as Abachem, is a Chinese

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company headquartered in Taicang. The company was founded in 2006 as Suzhou ABA Chemicals, and is traded on the

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as 300261. The company provides contract development and manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and agrochemical industries. It offers various services for the production of fine chemicals; intermediates; and active pharmaceutical ingredients. The company also provides unnatural amino acids,

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, and azaindoles, as well as producing an intermediate of API

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for the treatment of

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. The company is also involved in

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manufacturing intermediates, and acquired the Chinese firm Shanghai Puyi Chemical to consolidate its position in this market. It also acquired Amino Chemicals, a pharmaceutical API intermediate manufacturer and member of the Dipharma Group, in 2017; Amino is based on

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and was established in 1992. ABA and Dipharma began a working partnership in the 1980s, which provided Dipharma access to the Chinese pharmaceutical market. As of 2017, ABA had six facilities, three manufacturing facilities in

Jiangsu Province Jiangsu is a coastal province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the third smallest, but the fifth most populous, with a population of 84. ...

and three research and development facilities in

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. The manufacturing facility in Taicang was

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and OHSAS 18001 certified as of 2016.

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