OUR HISTORY

Unleashing Potential for Over 100 Years

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services is a leading CDMO with a rich history of quality products and services.

  1. 2025

    Sold all shares of Ajinomoto Althea.

  2. 2023

    Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services acquires Forge Biologics, a North American gene therapy CDMO company.

  3. 2020

    Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services completes the acquisition of Granules OmniChem Private Limited joint venture in India. The addition of Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services India Pvt. Ltd strengthens Aji Bio-Pharma’s commitment to providing its clients accessibility to a reliable and simplified CDMO supply chain across all sites globally.

  4. 2019

    GeneDesign Inc., a wholly owned Ajinomoto company in Osaka, Japan and provider of high quality and scalable custom oligonucleotides, joins Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, strengthening the organization’s commitment to its customers to be a leading global CDMO with comprehensive capabilities.

  5. 2018

    Ajinomoto Althea and OmniChem unite their world-class capabilities to form Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, a fully integrated, global CDMO with facilities in the United States and Belgium.

  6. 2017

    Launch of continuous flow technology for small molecule API commercial manufacturing at the OmniChem Wetteren, Belgium facility.

  7. 2016

    Expansion of HPAPI capabilities at the OmniChem Wetteren site.

  8. 2014

    Establishment of Granules OmniChem (a 50:50 JV with Granules India Limited) for the bulk manufacturing of both intermediates and APIs.

  9. 2013

    Althea and its San Diego production facilities acquired by Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

  10. 2012

    HPAPI production at OmniChem’s Wetteren site begins, with the construction of a dedicated facility to allow the safe handling and manufacturing of HPAPIs and cytotoxic products.

  11. 2010

    Commencement of new purification plant for botanical extracts at the OmniChem Wetteren site.

  12. 1996

    Diversification of OminChem’s Balen (Belgium) site allowed for production of APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates.

  13. 1989

    OmniChem and its Belgian production facilities acquired by Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

  14. 1975

    The production of synthetic intermediates and bulk actives for the pharmaceutical industry began at the Wetteren facility.

  15. 1946

    The Wetteren site progressively added the production tannic acid and botanical extracts.

  16. 1778

    Wetteren, Belgium (future OmniChem) production site founded to manufacture black powder.

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