Aptuit buys Evotec's development business

10 December 2007

USA-based Aptuit, which is focused on supporting the early drug development process, has completed its acquisition of the chemical and pharmaceutical development business of German drugmaker Evotec AG. The purchase, financial terms of which were not disclosed, includes both an active pharmaceutical ingredient facility at Oxford in the UK and a fill/finish site in Glasgow, Scotland.

Completes global API network

Aptuit said that the new facilities complete its global API chain, which currently includes small-scale units in the USA as well as a recently-established state-of-the-art production center in Hyderabad, India (Marketletter June 25) At present, the Connecticut-headquartered firm provides its services to a client base of more than 750 pharmaceutical innovators and drug development companies around the world.

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