WHO WE ARE
Since its founding in 2009, Enzymicals AG has created a customer-oriented industrial platform for the development and piloting of chemo-biocatalytic synthetic routes for high-quality fine chemicals and has built a bridge between academic research and industrial application.
Important milestones were enabled by raising seed capital through our strategic investors BRAIN AG and BBG in 2010 and 2012, the set-up of a highly qualified team, equipping modern state-of-the-art laboratories and the immediate start of a product- and service-based business.
We were rewarded by winning the local “Ostseezeitung” start-up prize (2012) and the corporate competition “KfW Award GründerChampions” in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2014).
Our start-up proved the functionality of our company concept by reaching our financial break even in 2015 and subsequent profitability. The refinement of our strategic direction to process development and scale-up with accompanying marketing activities were subsequently successfully carried out in 2016 and thereafter.
well-adjusted equal proportion among biologists and chemists
lab space with dedicated areas for R&D and production of kg’s
we have truly international patronage, having worked with many partners in a variety of states worldwide
At our 10th anniversary of Enzymicals AG we could look back on five profitable years with organic growth rates also positively influenced by enhancement of a diverse network and partnering activities.
Our unique success story continued in 2020 by an honor through the visit of the German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel and selection as finalist in the “Grand Prix of German medium-sized businesses” awards (2020). In the same year we published our 50th paper in renowned scientific journal demonstrating a respectable number of successful case studies.
In early 2022 the Supervisory Board of Enzymicals AG, appointed Dr. Erik de Vries as the new CEO of Enzymicals AG. Alongside Dr. Erik de Vries, Dr. Sebastian Schätzle is appointed as Chief Business Officer and Dr. David Liese as Chief Operating Officer. This team will ensure the long-term development of the company. In the same year we’re honored to have received the “Innovative through research” seal of approval from the German Stifterverband for Sciences and founded the Enzyme Technology Alliance. The newly alliance allows start-ups and corporations globally to access the full scope of protein development to marketable products. Founders and members of the Enzyme Technology Alliance are the technologically complementary biotech-SMEs Candidum GmbH, Aminoverse B.V., ChiralVision B.V., and Enzymicals AG comprising 45 scientific experts and more than 150 years of combined experience ranging from enzyme discovery to facilitating cGMP enzymatic production of APIs.
We were able to witness the commercialization of a product which we successfully led from biocatalyst and process development to production scale-up and transfer to production on a ton-scale. Together with our established position as innovative CRO/CDMO in the field of industrial biocatalysis we are proud of being a well-known name in this field.
We are eager to accomplish more.
The BioTechnikum Greifswald has areas of laboratory and office space as well as a training and conference area. Enzymicals currently rents a separate biosafety level 1 zone of 460 m² with dedicated areas for analytics, routine tasks, screenings, process R&D, scale-up, downstream and a kg-lab. From 2022 we will move into new buildings for significant extension of our production capacity.
In 2010, BRAIN AG, one of the leading European white biotechnology companies, has acquired a minority share in Enzymicals AG. This strategic alliance brings together complementary modules of the value chain for biocatalytic production of fine and special chemicals. Dr. Martin Langer is Executive Vice President and head of business development at BRAIN. He was elected as member of the supervisory board of Enzymicals AG in 2020.
In 2012, Braun Beteiligungs GmbH, a traditional medium-sized holding company that was founded in 1973 and is currently among one of the 25 biggest employers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, has acquired a stake in Enzymicals AG. In the pharmaceutical sector, BBG holds shares in companies with different structures. In 2020 the minority share was transferred to Mrs. Prof. Dagmar Braun as an individual. She is on the board of numerous associations and fulfills a variety of voluntary functions.
abcr GmbH with headquarter in Karlsruhe, Germany, is the preferred trading partner of Enzymicals AG. The company has subsidiaries and representatives in Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, France, England, Poland, India, Israel, Japan, Brazil, Russia and USA. As the preferred trading partner abcr GmbH process the entire order procedure for our catalogue products. This includes the preparation of quotations, order confirmations, shipping and invoicing. In any case, customers receive original Enzymicals products and we remain the contact for technical support and all scientific questions.
The Swiss enterprise Solvias is one of the largest independent analytical testing, contract research, development and manufacturing companies. The ligands and specialty unit at Solvias has a proven track record for the efficient and successful development of catalytic processes and with Enzymicals both parties have the perfect combination of complementary services with the aim of providing solutions to challenging chemical transformations. Clients of both parties will benefit from proprietary catalyst portfolios and expertise for catalytic transformations with a suite of related custom synthesis and technology platforms.
For over 15 years ChiralVision has designed, developed and scaled-up immobilized enzyme processes for diverse markets. The immobilization technology based on macroporous polymeric beads to make their application feasible and allow to make innovations in pharma, intermediates, life sciences, cosmetics, food, environment and more. With this collaboration Enzymicals clients can obtain highly professional custom immobilization service and quickly count on first prototypes for evaluation, optionally followed by multiple rounds of optimization which will turn the prototype into a robust reusable catalyst.
By using cutting edge directed enzyme evolution and in silico design methods, Aminoverse engineer enzymes to meet any application requirements. The company look back at a long track record in enzyme development and is a team player for almost 10 years. Together with Enzymicals as technologically complementary partner, the parties are convinced that the best chance to solve an enzyme challenge is to work hand in hand for a common goal. This collaboration takes our value proposition to the next level.
With innovations in computational enzyme design that allows to navigate nature’s complexity and optimize variants to fit your needs, our synergistic partner Candidum is committed to support the discovery of lead candidates and/or the design of improvement strategies on a molecular level. It’s technology of simulation-based metagenome mapping and enzyme engineering hotspot profiles leads to increased efficiency and success rates with simultaneously decreased development timelines. Our alliance enables us to offer complex developments and to bring them to industrial scale.
The CBP in Leuna focuses on the combination of biotechnological processes with chemical processes, and with its pilot scale technical equipment it can close the gap between our laboratories and industrial implementation. By providing the infrastructure and technical facilities as well as a staff of highly qualified experts, it enables Enzymicals to scale-up processes to production-relevant dimensions and also to accelerate process developments. The plant has various scales for fermentation and enzyme-catalyzed reactions up to 10 m³ with a high degree of flexibility.
Chiracon has 20 years of experience in the field of drug synthesis and documentation. As a German company, our partner can reliably offer all services in the field of synthetic drug development for new or generic products with specialization in organic synthesis, scale up and production in a ISO9001/GMP certified environment. This collaboration can provide documentations needed for active pharmaceutical ingredients for clinical trials, and also in order to introduce new APIs to market (ASMF, DMF, CMC, IMPD).
Europe’s flagship in life sciences, provide access to Transform-MinER, an in-silico tool for synthetic analysis, developed at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, to identify novel high value-added biosynthetic enzyme reactions with relevance to our proprietary product portfolio. The tailored exploration of the chemical biosynthetic space by the use of Transform-MinER’s ligand-based methodology with chemoinformatic fingerprints is beneficial to more efficiently commercialize our technology platform and its biocatalytic potential to fuel our product pipeline.
We work with a range of diverse undisclosed CMOs to enable our clients the commercial supply of our developments and products. No matter whether enzymes or chemical entities. Our proven partners are predominantly located in the EU and the network spans over small, mid-sized and large players in the industry. Together with our collaborators, we expand our service to regulatory affairs, cGMP production and bulk scale supply.