The rapid cost increase within China has brought some shadow to the CRO and CMO businesses in China. However, as a USA based major fine and pharmaceutical chemical contract research and manufacture organization, DS Chemphy Inc. continues investing in China on CRO and CMO businesses. ¡°Our competitive advantages are not only low costs¡± said Dr. Aaron Shen, CEO of the company.

Dr. Shen continues: ¡°What makes Chemphy so attractive to our customers? The answers are: high standard EHS management, high quality products and services, proprietary technologies, high efficiency, excellent IP protection, frequently communication, and overall capability from R&D to manufacture.¡±

Since DS Chemphy acquired New Chemphy, a Chinese Academy of Sciences founded company in 2007, the company has invested over $45 million on CRO/CMO capability as well as corporate culture and management reform. The company integrated both China and western advantages, lower costs in China and high standard quality systems in the western. The successful story was told by C&EN News (issue Sept 1, 2008, page 35).

       The company now employed over 1000 chemical professionals.  Last year, they have built a world class R&D center which is the best among Chinese fine chemical industry. There are 150 chemists with 25 PhDs working in the R&D center. Most of group leaders have been trained or worked in western countries. The company is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments including NMR, LC-MS, GC-MS, DSC, RC1, GPC, etc. The company has two large manufacture sites with pilot, multifunctional, and commercial quantity. Reactors cover all different sizes up to 20M³ with material construction including stainless steel, glass-lined, nickel-lined, titanium-lined, Hastelloy-lined and polytetrafluoroethylene-lined.

DS Chemphy also offers quality products based on their technology platforms, which includes cyclopropanation, fluorination, catalytic continues process, etc. Products include cyclopropane series, fluorinated series, indole series, cyclopentane series, etc.

Recently DS Chemphy launched three new products:

Cyclopentyl methyl ether ----- THF alternative

ChemphySteel^Ò ----- Polymers as strong as steel

ChemphyFresh^Ò ----- Keep your fruits and vegetables fresh

For further information please access website: www.dschemphy.com

Or contact: Aaron Shen, President of DS Chemphy, Tel: 302-351-8401

Fax: 302-351-6101 or email: ashen@dschemphy.com