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CABB operates six production facilities in Europe, Asia and the USA.

The locations in Pratteln (Switzerland), Kokkola (Finland) and Galena, Kansas (USA) support our custom-manufacturing clients under exclusive, long-term contracts. High-purity monochloroacetic acid and its derivatives are produced at our sites in Gersthofen and Knapsack (Germany) and Jining (China) for tailor-made supply chain solutions. A network of global sales channel partners further ensures timely, personalized service.

Our German site is an integrated production plant based on a chlorine membrane electrolysis. Located close to Augsburg in Bavaria, it offers one of the world’s most technologically advanced MCA facilities and is a producer of high-purity specialties as DCA, DCAC, glycolic acid, etc.
Integrated in a major industry park, the Gersthofen site has around 210 employees.

Key technologies

chlorination, hydrogenation, esterification, and oxidation

Address

CABB GMBH
Ludwig-Hermann-Straße 100
86368 Gersthofen
GERMANY
Near Cologne in the center of the European chemical industry and close to major logistic hubs, the Knapsack site has around 90 employees.
This site is one of the world’s largest and most efficient plants for MCA & SMCA.

Key technologies

chlorination and hydrogenation

Address

CABB GMBH
Chemiepark Knapsack
Industriestraße 300
50351 Hürth
GERMANY
Our Swiss-based site is an integrated (“Verbund”) production plant and specializes in complex chlorine-based fine chemistry. It offers exclusive synthesis, specialties, intermediates and base chemicals for crop sciences, life sciences and performance materials. CABB‘s largest manufacturing site is backwards-integrated into reagents and intermediates.
The Pratteln site has been in contract manufacturing since 1972 and currently has around 400 employees.

Key technologies

chlorination (chlorine and thionyl chloride), oxidation (Cl2 and H2O2), sulfochlorination (chlorosulfonic acid), alkylation (methylation, thioalkylation and chloromethylation)

Address

CABB AG
Düngerstrasse 81
Post Box 1964
4133 Pratteln
SWITZERLAND
Our US site runs complex multi-step batch processes from lab scale through pilot plant to commercial scale. This production plant is focused on the synthesis of advanced intermediates and actives for crop sciences, specialty and pharma markets according to cGMP standards, FIFRA and FDA registrations using highly automated equipment. The US site also manufactures special anhydrides with its flagship product BTDA.
The Galena site has around 125 employees.

Key technologies

alkylation, azo & Grignard chemistry, heterocyclic synthesis, hydrogenation & oxidation, Suzuki coupling, phosphorus chemistry and formylation

Address

JAYHAWK FINE CHEMICALS CORPORATION
8545 SE Jayhawk Drive
Galena, Kansas 66739
USA
Our Finish site is focused on the large-scale synthesis of advanced intermediates and active ingredients for crop sciences. This highly automated custom manufacturing site utilizes multi-step batch processes organized into six production trains.
This powerhouse in agrochemical manufacturing started operating in 1984 and currently has around 250 employees.

Key technologies

chlorination (Cl2), bromination (Br2), Friedel Crafts acylation, lithiation (BuLi), Grignard, Suzuki, oxidation (Cl2 and H2O2), hydrogenation (H2) and malodorous chemistry (mercaptans)

Address

CABB OY
Kemirantie 1
FI-67900 Kokkola
FINLAND
Our Chinese production site for MCA & SMCA.

Key technologies

hydrogenation and crystallization

Address

CABB JINWEI SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (JINING) CO. LTD.
Luwa Industrial Park, Zhanghuang town,
Yutai county, Shandong Province
Jining City – 272 300
CHINA