Schirm GmbH

If our customers’ goods have to be stored temporarily, we can make available storage space. This is an interesting proposition for some of our customers, particularly if they have fairly large product lines needing to be dispatched to different places in different countries; we or our parent company IMPERIAL Logistics International, one of the largest chemical logistics specialists in Germany, can also handle the transport logistics.

We also dispatch samples for our customers as an additional service. We prepare tiny containers of chemicals on behalf of our customers. We normally fill the sample amounts into the required dispatch containers; adequate amounts are kept in stock at our special warehouse and are sent out to your customers without any evidence that our company has been involved in the process. The range of services in the sample dispatch field involves the following: flexible sample filling, customised storage and global dispatch operations.

We offer our customers the opportunity of having their chemical-technological products developed or tested at our analysis centre. We have laboratories furnished with the latest equipment, technical centre facilities and a highly qualified team of chemists and process engineers.

At Schirm, we not only synthesise fine chemicals and agricultural chemicals, but we also source active substances, auxiliary materials and packages for our customers in the chemical industry. For this purpose, we cooperate with selected factories in different countries in order to offer you the customary Schirm standards as regards the quality of the active substances.

Schirm provides synthesis services for agricultural chemicals and fine chemicals for its customers in the chemical industry. We are experts in professional development work and reliable contract manufacturing. The processes are either developed in line with your specifications or through in-house work performed by our highly qualified team of process engineers and chemists – and the results are then tested at our technology centre. Schirm has the following equipment to handle its range of services in the field of synthesis:

• Two multi-purpose synthesis units for various pesticide active agents and fine chemicals
• A synthesis technology centre for pilot trials or for synthesising fairly small amounts
• Very well equipped laboratories

Our synthesis capabilities

• Urea derivatives
• Carbamates
• Amines/amides
• Isocyanates
• Organic acids
• Inorganic acids
• Inorganic alkalis
• Aldehydes
• Ketones
• Alcohols
• Esters
• Phenols
• Nitriles
• Substitute aromas
• Sulphides
• N-heterocycles
• O-heterocycles
• High-molecular polymers

Our approval certification covers all materials, with the exception of explosive and radioactive substances.

One of our main business fields involves forming sets of solid and liquid chemical products. We are also happy to advise our customers with regard to selecting the latest packaging materials. All you need to do then is to send us the layout for the labelling or for printing the packaging that you require. We handle the rest.

• Packaging liquid products (0.25 ml – 1,000 l): tiny and small packages, bottles, canisters, barrels,  IBCs, road tankers, tank wagons
• Packaging solid substances (0.3 g – 1,000 kg): tiny and small packages, bags, boxes, bottles, sacks, drums, cartons, big bags
• Special packaging: water-soluble bags, low-melting bags
• Special repackaging work: steel replacement containers

Schirm formulates active substances for pesticides, biocides, additives and many other chemical products for its customers. What is delivered as an active substance in any form, leaves our factories as a quality product that is ready for use (WG, WP, EC, SC, SL, SE, EW). Schirm can handle a broad range of types of formulation – involving liquid, powder and even granulated substances.

• Formulating and pulverising solid substances in air separation mills (powder: 100 % < 150 µm, d 90: 45 µm; capacity: 6-10 t/d)
• Formulating suspension concentrates on an aqueous basis (100 % < 150 µm, d 90: 6 µm, d 50: 2 µm; capacity: up to 25,000 l/d)
• Formulating emulsions containing solvents (in explosion-proof units)
• Formulating pastes
• Developing formulations

Grinding and micronizing are indispensable operations for many products. Schirm uses both mechanical air separation mills and particularly other kinds of mills, some of which are equipped with a protective gas atmosphere, to meet different requirements.

We are also experts in the field of granulation/compacting/pelletizing. For example, we operate several extruders, compactors, a pelletizing machine and a spray granulator.

Schirm uses various machines on the market to sift products.

We also work for our customers in the field of drying chemical-technological products. Our customers make use of the spray granulator or various vacuum paddle dryers, for example.

The Schirm Group has various types and sizes of mixers for mixing purposes.