making the essential building blocks for today’s crop protection products

ensuring increased farming yields and preventing plant and livestock diseases.
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making the essential building blocks for today’s pharmaceuticals

two-thirds of fine chemicals are used as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) or excipients in medicines.
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who we are

efcg is the forum & the voice of the
european fine chemicals manufacturers.

what’s new?
04 Jul 2023 - event

Industrial Biotechnologies Day

CEFIC Specialty Chemicals sector groups EFCG, Biochem Europe and EFG, together with SICOS, the French industry association for Fine Chemicals and Biotech, will jointly hold their first in-person Indus...
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14 Mar 2023 - News

Article in Chemistry Today - Chimica Oggi

In the past three years, EFCG  relentlessly strove to alert EU authorities on the need to address head-on the root causes of the supply tensions and shortages that are affecting Europe’s supply of...
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09 Nov 2022 - publication

A STRONG EUROPEAN API INDUSTRY CAN ACHIEVE STRATEGIC AUTONOMY OF THE EU HEALTH SYSTEM

EFCG - MfE Joint paper Unique-APIs Nov 8, 2022 Europe needs a strong EU-based API industry to achieve strategic autonomy for its health system. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerabilit...
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