Cilag

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Cilag AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1936
Seat Schaffhausen SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Kyran Johnson
( CEO )
Number of employees 1'300 (2019)
Branch Pharma
Website www.cilag.ch

The Cilag AG , based in Schaffhausen is an international Swiss pharmaceutical company . It is part of Janssen, the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson , and manufactures drugs and pharmaceutical products. The company employs around 1,300 people (as of early 2019).

Field of activity

The company is a strategic launch and manufacturing location for some of Johnson & Johnson's key pharmaceutical products. With the most modern technologies and processes, Cilag AG manufactures various pharmaceutical dosage forms and chemical active ingredients.

history

The company was founded in 1936 by the chemist and son of the Schaffhausen district and school doctor Bernhard Joos sen. founded. He returned to Schaffhausen in 1933 after a long period of further training in the United States and began developing new types of remedies in a small research laboratory. This resulted in the first drug he named Pyridacil for disinfecting the kidneys and urinary tract . In May 1936, Joos had his company entered in the commercial register under the name "CILAG, Chemisches Industrielles Laboratorium AG". The first chairman of the board of directors was the Zurich university professor Carl Naegeli, who however died in 1942.

Within a few years, the research team of the newly founded company developed six new pharmaceutical preparations ready for the market. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the company began in May 1945 to export the preparations that had been sold in Switzerland up to that point, including abroad. After Joos left the company under pressure from the banks in 1949, Cilag came under the influence of Interhandel . At the same time, international expansion began with the establishment of a subsidiary in Vienna. Three years later, a branch was opened in Germany and, in 1961, another subsidiary in Milan.

1959 Cilag was taken over by Johnson & Johnson. The integration into the US-American group gave the company access to extensive basic research , with which the research and development activities of Cilag experienced a strong expansion and the company became a strategic pharmaceutical development and production facility for Johnson & Johnson.

literature

  • Cilag 1936-2006. History of a pharmaceutical company in Schaffhausen . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3034007922

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