NZP-Dextra manufactures specialist and niche chemicals, especially bile acids, complex oligosaccharides and other sugar derivatives.
- Multi-step syntheses manufactured to your specification
- Gram to multi-kilogram scale.
- Process optimisation
- Long term manufacturing contracts from kilograms to tonnes per annum.
Amongst the Dextra and NZP manufacturing specialties are:
- Bile acid derivatives; for example glycocholic acid
- Sugar derivatives
- Chemical and enzyme synthesis (custom synthesis)
- Natural product extraction and purification from biomass (marine and terrestrial products, small molecule bioactives and polymers)
- Chemical modification of natural products (GMP)
NZP's Manufacturing technologies include:
- Chemical and enzyme synthesis in glass or stainless steel
- Natural product extraction and purification from biomass (marine and terrestrial products)
- Anhydrous or inert gas blanket chemistry
- Enzyme and chemical hydrolyses
- Large scale aqueous and organic solvent extraction
- Ion-exchange purification
- Distillation
- Ultrafiltration
- Filtration and centrifugation
- Freeze drying - GMP
- Also: spray, vacuum, oven tray drying, crystallisation
- Milling (grinding)
- ISO Class 8 clean rooms