A crop-protection active with a six-week delivery window and no existing contract manufacturer.
A Midwest agrochemical firm had a registered active ingredient with a pending EPA registration review. Their incumbent supplier had shuttered a product line mid-contract. The compound required a three-step synthesis with a moisture-sensitive intermediate — and the client needed 4,200 kg of finished active in six weeks.
Compound's process engineers reviewed the bench protocol and resequenced the synthesis to use two 5,000 L glass-lined reactors in parallel, eliminating a bottleneck at the deprotection step. Nitrogen-blanketed transfer lines were installed within 72 hours. Inline FTIR monitoring was added at Stage 2 to catch the moisture-sensitive intermediate before workup.
- Glass-lined 5,000 L reactor × 2, parallel configuration
- Nitrogen-blanketed transfer with continuous dew-point monitoring
- Inline FTIR at Stage 2 — real-time purity confirmation
- Daily QC reports issued to client's R&D team

Glass-lined 5,000 L reactor — Building 3, Plant Floor B


