DSM (company) - Businesses

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DSM Nutritional Products is the world's largest supplier of nutritional ingredients, such as vitamins, carotenoids and other fine chemicals to the feed, food, pharmaceutical and personal care industries.

DSM Food Specialties is a manufacturer of food enzymes, cultures, yeast extracts and other specialty ingredients for the global food and beverage industries. DSM Food Specialties supplies advanced ingredients for the food industry, mainly manufactured with the aid of fermentation and enzyme technology, among other technologies. These ingredients are found in well-known food brands for the dairy, baking, fruit juice, beer, wine, savory and functional food segments.

DSM Pharmaceutical Products provides custom contract manufacturing and development services to the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Customers are serviced from five manufacturing sites in the United States and Europe. These customers include pharmaceutical companies and agrochemical multinationals as well as a large number of biotech, specialty and emerging companies across the globe.

DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals produces penicillin G and penicillin intermediates (6-APA and 7-ADCA), active pharmaceutical ingredients such as semisynthetic penicillins and semi-synthetic cefalosporins (beta-lactams) and other active pharmaceutical ingredients such as Nystatin and Atorvastatin.

DSM Engineering Plastics manufactures polyamides, polyesters and extrudable adhesive resins. These materials are used mainly in technical components for the electrical and electronics, automotive, engineering and packaging industries.

DSM Dyneema is the inventor and manufacturer of Dyneema ultra-strong fiber. This fiber, based on ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), is used in many applications in various end-markets, such as life protection, shipping, fishing, offshore, sailing, medical and textiles.

DSM Resins manufactures products used in a wide variety of applications such as paints, wind turbines and automotive. End-markets include building and construction, transport and industry. DSM Resins is also the world's largest manufacturer of fiber optic coatings.

DSM Fibre Intermediates produces caprolactam and acrylonitrile, which are raw materials for synthetic fibers and engineering plastics. Caprolactam is the raw material for polyamide 6, used in textiles, floor coverings, industrial yarns and engineering plastics. Acrylonitrile is a key ingredient for acrylic textile and carpet fibers and for materials (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, ABS and styrene-acrylonitrile, SAN) for automobile components, electronic devices, toys and sports equipment. Other products include ammonium sulfate (a fertilizer), diaminobutane, sodium cyanide, and cyclohexanone.