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This is a list of manufacturers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals with operations in the United Kingdom. Note: the activities of the parent companies of many of the companies listed below are not restricted solely to the United Kingdom.
Syrris Ltd UK head office. Syrris Ltd is a British multinational corporation based in Royston, United Kingdom.It manufactures chemical reactors for research and development chemists [1] and is a market leader in flow chemistry products. [2]
Helkon SK — is a former name of Lionsgate UK, a film production and distribution company. Heidelberg Materials UK — is a building materials company. It was formerly a conglomerate including Imperial Tobacco, The Energy Group, Millennium Chemicals and others. It was also an asset trader, buying, restructuring and selling companies.
The American Chemistry Council estimated that global chemical sales in 2014 rose by 3.7% to US$5,389,000,000,000. [3] In 2018, Forty-eight of the companies on the list disclosed chemical profits, which totaled US$110,100,000,000, an increase of 1.3% from 2017. The average profit margin for chemical operations for these companies was 9.6%. [1]
VWR International is an American company involved in the distribution of research laboratory products, with over 1,200,000 items to more than 250,000 customers in North America and Europe.
Bunzl Public Limited Company is a British multinational distribution and outsourcing company headquartered in London, England.. The activities of the company have changed a number of times during its existence, frequently incorporating the disparate business interests of the founding Bunzl family, which trace their history back to a haberdashery opened in Pozsony in 1854.
Univar Solutions Inc.(formerly Royal Vopak) is a global chemical and ingredients distributor and provider of value-added services.. Founded in 1924 as Van Waters & Rogers, it was acquired in August 2023 by funds controlled by Apollo Global Management. [2]
21% of the UK's chemical industry is in North West England, notably around Runcorn and Widnes. The chemical industry is 6.8% of UK manufacturing; around 85% of the UK chemical industry is in England. It employs 500,000, including 350,000 indirectly. It accounts for around 20% of the UK's research and development.