Pathway Intermediates Limited (No. 04220119) was founded in 2001 by cancer biologist Dr David Garnett and mathematician Dr Robin Jones. The principal activity of the company is the manufacture of a class of specialty chemicals known as

biosurfactants Biosurfactant usually refers to surfactants of microbial origin. Most of the biosurfactants produced by microbes are synthesized extracellularly and many microbes are known to produce biosurfactants in large relative quantities. Some are of commerci ...

. The company has its headquarters in

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...

, United Kingdom where there are two business units making liquid and powder products. The company also has two additional manufacturing sites in England. The company exports to Europe, Asia and the Americas. Significant growth in these markets was recognised in 2012 when the company won a

Queen's Awards for Enterprise The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation, sustainable development or promoting opportunity (through social mobility). They are the highest ...

. In 2011 the company entered a joint venture agreement with Easy Bio Systems of South Korea and established a manufacturing company Pathway Intermediates International Inc, located outside Seoul."Completion-of-LIPIDOL-plant-for-the-World-Markets!"
Easy Bio Inc News 20 March 2013 Pathway Intermediates Limited conducts research into novel lysophospholipids,

glycoside In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond. Glycosides play numerous important roles in living organisms. Many plants store chemicals in the form of inactive glycosides. ...

glyceride Glycerides, more correctly known as acylglycerols, are esters formed from glycerol and fatty acids, and are generally very hydrophobic. Glycerol has three hydroxyl functional groups, which can be esterified with one, two, or three fatty acids ...

s and other

ester In chemistry, an ester is a compound derived from an oxoacid (organic or inorganic) in which at least one hydroxyl group () is replaced by an alkoxy group (), as in the substitution reaction of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. Glycerides ar ...

s and this work has attracted research grants from local and national government agencies.

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