1929
Probus

Probus was the first company founded in Spain as a manufacturer of fine chemical products for industry along with high purity reagents for laboratory use.

1978
E.Merck
integration

It was taken over by one of the chemical and pharmaceutical sector’s largest and best-known multinational companies which brought an international vision of the business.

1997
Spin off Quality
Chemicals S.L.

Quality Chemicals S.L was created in 1997 as a spin-off of the German multinational company.

2000
New facilities

New facilities are built in Esparreguera. This new site includes production, warehouse, R&D lab, quality control lab and offices.

2004
Purity Chemicals S.L.

Quality Chemicals acquires Purity Chemicals S.L. in the industrial area of Venta de Baños, Palencia, a company which synthesises active ingredients for the veterinary and pharmaceutical industries.

2011
Production
acc.to GMP

After several years of major refurbishment and upgrading of the Venta de Baños facilities to produce inorganic salts, we now have a production facility which can make excipients for the pharmaceutical, veterinary and food industries following GMP guidelines.

2015
API production

In 2015 AEMPS (Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices) authorised production of APIs at Purity Chemicals.

2016
CEP

The first Certificate of Suitability for the European Pharmacopoeia was earned for sodium fluoride as an API.