Key Starting Materials
Made in the U.S.
Secure, collaborative KSM supply—from custom synthesis to reliable scale—powered by Kodak’s century of chemical innovation.
Domestic assurance
Cut lead times and geopolitical risk with KSMs produced by a U.S. manufacturer in Rochester, NY, designed to mitigate supply chain risk and provide consistent quality and delivery.
Quality you can audit
KODAK Specialty Chemicals has a long and trusted history of providing quality from scale to innovation.
- Change management
- Statistical process control tools
- Design for manufacturing
- ISO 9001-2015 certification
Custom chemistry at scale
Access decades of custom synthesis know‑how—particularly in heterocycles and specialty polymers—supported by broad reactor trains, analytical instrumentation, and experienced and innovative scientists and technical specialists.
What is a Key Starting Material?
KSMs are foundational non-cGMP building blocks incorporated as significant structural fragments in an API; early control of KSM quality is critical to downstream performance and regulatory success.
Why Kodak for KSMs?
Experience: Kodak has supplied unregulated KSMs for years to leading U.S. and multinational CDMOs and innovators.
Collaboration: Our scientists co‑develop with your team, tailoring KSM route, specs, and release analytics for your process.
Infrastructure: U.S. specialty chemicals backbone with extensive synthesis and analytical technologies.
Capabilities & Equipment
Synthesis focus: Heterocycles, organics, polymers; custom route development & scale‑up (pilot kilos to several hundreds of metric tons).
Analytical: HPLC/HPLC-MS, GC/GC‑MS, NMR, ICP‑OES, XRF, particle size, and more; on‑site analytics to speed release.
Equipment: Our U.S. manufacturing site has 88 glass-lined and stainless steel reactor systems scaled from 100-Gallons to 1000 gallons, variety of isolation, drying and blending capabilities to handle everything from pilot kilos to several hundreds of metric tons. Our batch equipment offers us flexibility, which gives you flexibility of choice.
Applications
Small molecule APIs: U.S. domestic KSMs to derisk essential medicines supply.
CMC rescue & tech transfer: Rapid replication and design of KSM routes/specs when moving away from single-country sources.
How we Engage
Kodak Specialty Chemicals Group
Kodak provides a unique specialty chemicals operation for custom organic synthesis with toll manufacturing capabilities from pilot kilos to several hundreds of metric tons and a proprietary database of over 100,000 molecules.
Quality & Compliance
From pilot scale-up of custom organic molecules to Contract Manufacturing of several hundreds of metric tons, KODAK Specialty Chemicals has a long and trusted history of providing quality scale to innovation.
- Change management
- Statistical process control tools
- Design for manufacturing
- ISO 9001-2015 certification
Frequently Asked Questions
Documents
To obtain a Certificate of Analysis (COA) please contact customer service at kodakpharma@kodak.com or 1-800-356-3259 and provide your lot number.
For Safety Data Sheets, please visit our database here.
Contact Us
For more information on how we can support your pharmaceutical needs and collaborate with you on your research, please contact us.