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Contract research and manufacturing since 2020
ChemEngg Research is a contract research and manufacturing organisation working across India, the Middle East and Africa, Europe, the United States, and Australia, led by scientists trained at India’s national chemistry institutions.
Company profile
ChemEngg Research Pvt. Ltd. delivers customised scientific services to companies in specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and cosmetics. Contract research, analytical capability, and pilot-scale manufacturing sit under one quality system, which means a route developed at our bench can be proven on our own reactors without changing hands.
Our journey
2020
ChemEngg Research Incorporated
The company was registered in Pune as a private limited company, built around a simple conviction: that most industrial chemistry problems are solvable if someone will do the research properly.
2023
Pilot-Scale Capability Added
Glass-lined reactors and a Parr-type hydrogenation reactor came online, taking routes proven at the bench up to pilot-scale batches for the first time.
2024
Chikhali Laboratory Commissioned
The Chikhali facility opened, bringing synthesis, analytical, and pilot work under one dedicated in-house site rather than a shared or borrowed one.
2025
International Programmes Scale Up
Overseas engagements grew into a standing part of the book, across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the United States, and Australia, run to the same synthesis, analytical, and quality discipline as the domestic work.
Our mission
To turn difficult industrial chemistry into processes our clients can actually run. We take on the synthesis, the analysis, and the scale-up work that sits outside a company's own bench, and we hand back something documented, reproducible, and economically viable.
Our vision
To be the research partner that companies anywhere in the world call when the chemistry gets hard. We run one laboratory, to one standard, for clients on five continents, so that where the science happens matters far less than how well it is done.
Our leadership
Both directors are on the science, and both carry work that ran outside India before this company existed.
Dr. Vaibhav R. Acham
Founder & Managing Director
Chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to think of it as the study of change.
Dr. Acham holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry with expertise in heterogeneous catalyst development and application, having researched at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune and Humboldt University in Berlin. He brings over fifteen years of industrial R&D experience across specialty chemicals, pyridine chemistry, and food-safety analysis, spanning laboratory establishment, catalyst development, and process scale-up.
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Agraja Dharmarao
Director
A protocol that only works when its author is in the room is not a protocol yet.
Agraja Dharmarao leads client engagement and research strategy at ChemEngg Research, covering proposals, research collaborations, and the technical direction of both industrial and academic projects. She is a microbiologist by training and came to the company from laboratory operations management, where she oversaw analytical and microbiological testing and wrote the SOPs and quality protocols behind it.
Full profileSustainability & responsibility
Sustainability here is a service line, not a statement. These are assessments we run for clients, which is why we know what to look for in a process.
We map a product's environmental burden across its life, from raw material extraction to the factory gate or all the way to disposal, so you know which step to fix first rather than guessing.
Quantifying the carbon and water intensity of a process, usually as the groundwork for a customer disclosure request or a regulatory submission you cannot answer from memory.
Industrial waste streams often contain something worth having. We have recovered metals from lithium-ion black mass, iron oxide pigments from iron waste, copper from electronics scrap, and silica from rice husk.
Why choose us
01
Curiosity With a Purpose
Metal-organic frameworks, catalyst design, and AEM electrolyser membranes are not side projects here. We invest in the harder chemistry because that is where our clients eventually need us.
02
Straight Answers
We tell you when a route will not work before you fund it, and we size the programme to the answer you actually need rather than the one that bills best.
03
Your Data and IP Stay Yours
Results, routes, and data developed for you remain your intellectual property, and project information stays with the chemists running it.
04
You Are Not Left Waiting
Live projects come with a named contact who knows the chemistry without needing a briefing.
05
Chemistry That Accounts for Its Waste
Life cycle analysis, footprint assessment, and effluent recovery are services we sell, which means we already know what to look for in your process.
06
In It for the Long Programme
We would rather earn the second project than oversell the first, so we scope what the problem needs rather than what the budget allows.
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Work with us
Have a problem worth researching?
A first conversation is short. Tell us the chemistry, the volume, and the deadline, and we will come back with a view on what it would take.