Lonza Group Ltd
At Lonza, we enable a healthier world by supporting our healthcare customers on the path to commercialization. Our community of 15,000 skilled employees work across a global network of more than 30 sites to deliver for our customers across the pharma, biotech and nutrition markets. By combining technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise and process excellence, we help our customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Chemical & Pharmaceuticals
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1897
About us
Lonza is the preferred global partner to the pharmaceutical, biotech and nutrition markets. We focus on enabling treatments that prevent illness and support healthier lifestyles. We optimize scientific innovation and manufacturing technology to enable our customers to serve their patients and consumers.
We provide a wide range of services and products from early phase discovery to custom development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients to innovative dosage forms for the pharma and consumer health and nutrition industries. Our scale and resources mean we can provide a one-stop solution for our customers to help people get well, feel well, and stay well. In 2020, we supported more than 820 preclinical and clinical small and large molecules, more than 245 commercial small and large molecules and produced 230 billion capsules.
Founded in 1897 in the Swiss Alps, today, Lonza operates across five continents. With approximately 15,000 employees, we comprise high-performing teams and individual talent that make a meaningful difference to our own business, as well as to the communities in which we operate. Our business benefits from global supply chains, but we have worked to maintain the agility to address marketplace needs on a local level.
A firm commitment to responsible business and sustainability underpins everything we do. Minimizing our impact on the environment, conserving energy and natural resources, and helping to improve life quality are all central to our culture. Lonza's Vision Zero initiative is a prime example, as we strive to achieve zero workplace accidents and injuries, zero environmental incidents, zero product transportation incidents and zero manufacturing process incidents. We work to attract and retain the best talent, to make a meaningful difference to our own business, as well as the communities in which we operate.
Lonza generated sales of CHF 2.5 billion with a CORE EBITDA of CHF 847 million in H1 2021. The Lonza shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and Swiss Market Index (SMI). We also maintain a secondary listing on the SGX Singapore Exchange.
Our Vision, Purpose and Strategy
Now we have completed the divestment of our Specialty Ingredients business, we are focusing our energy and attention on our role as a pure-play strategic partner to the healthcare industry. We are now a single business operating in a single industry, and we have welcomed this opportunity to establish a clear and confident identity for our company.
At a Group level, we have established a company purpose to ENABLE A HEALTHIER WORLD. This is our reason for being. It is what motivates us to succeed and deliver for our customers and their patients, every single day. In fulfilling our purpose, we hope to achieve our Group vision to BRING ANY THERAPY TO LIFE.
To achieve our purpose, we have defined five strategic priorities. These guide our business activities and practices, to ensure that we can capture and capitalize upon our unique points of differentiation.
Individually, each of these priorities allows us t...
Individually, each of these priorities allows us to stand out from the crowd as a preferred partner for our customers. Collectively, these priorities combine to define our strategy and support our long-term growth and success.
As well as focusing on these priorities, we must always remain agile to the changes in our industry and the wider world around us, both of which have an impact on how we do business. A combination of planned and adaptive strategic approaches are critical if we are to maintain our unique positon and continue to drive competitive advantage. You can find more details on our external operating environment here.
Our Values
Our values define our culture and speak to both our global identity and Swiss heritage. They explain who we are and what we stand for as a company and community. They reflect our DNA and guide how we behave towards each other, and how we do business with our customers, suppliers and partners. They articulate how we conduct ourselves at work and how we fulfil our purpose of enabling a healthier world.
For Lonza, we have defined four core values:
Integrity
Having the accountability, honesty and courage to speak up and do the right thing.
Inclusion
Being supportive, respectful and responsible towards others.
Innovation
Being engaged, curious and enquiring to find the best possible solution.
Initiative
Being self-driven, motivated and committed to focus and deliver.
Our Structural Design
As we refocus our energy and attention as a pure-play partner to the healthcare industry, we have reviewed the design the Lonza company structure. Our updated structural design will help us to meet customer needs and expectations, as well as delivering optimal levels of productivity and efficiency. We now have four clear divisions, which were designed and developed in 2020, and operationalized at the beginning of 2021.
Sustainability
Our Commitment
Sustainability is a key consideration for us in all we do. That is one reason our employees are proud to work for Lonza, a Swiss company that has been successful for more than 120 years. Evolving from a producer of electricity and carbide products into a preferred global partner to the pharmaceutical, biotech and nutrition markets, Lonza has a long-standing commitment to safety and sustainability.
Today sustainability is a critical part of Lonza’s economic success, and we take our social and environmental responsibility seriously.
We believe we can create value for society by supporting our customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases.
Our people are the cornerstone of our business, so we want all our employees to grow and develop professionally at a sustainable pace. We provide them with safe workplaces, care for their well-being and foster their involvement in creating a positive working environment.
As a baseline for whatever we do, we ensure that regulatory compliance, integrity and ethical conduct are the foundations in every place we operate. More than five years ago, we took a step up to operate even more safely and sustainably by announcing our Vision Zero, the aspiration to work without incidents and reduce emissions, water consumption and waste. This program has led to a remarkable reduction in incidents and increased efficiency.
We continue to improve our environmental footprint by continually reducing energy, water and material demand per unit. With a long-term view to 2030, we want to reduce consumption considerably to align with the broadly accepted greenhouse gas reduction targets.