“From day one, our ambition has been to go beyond sourcing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs),” says Per Isager, Customer Development & Product Manager pharma at Caldic Nordic. “We don’t only provide APIs - we offer specialized knowledge, a pan-European pharma expert network, and high-quality GDP-compliant facilities.”
Per Isager is part of the Nordic team of pharmaceutical experts, overseeing specialty chemicals sourcing, regulatory support, and end-to-end supply chain management. His know-how reflects Caldic’s commitment to partnership and reliability. “We see ourselves as an extension of our customers’ quality teams,” he explains. “When we take on an API project, we take ownership to provide the full suite of documentation and manage the regulatory steps necessary to bring the ingredient safely to market.”
“At Caldic, we combine expertise, infrastructure, and care to make sure every API delivery meets the highest standards of quality and reliability.”
Drawing on his background as a chemist and extensive international leadership roles in the pharmaceutical sector, Per brings in-depth scientific know-how and a broad market perspective to Caldic’s API operations. He combines a deep understanding of formulation and process requirements with a practical grasp of the commercial and regulatory realities facing our partners. Having once been on the customer side himself, Per knows firsthand the challenges companies face in sourcing reliable, compliant APIs, and leverages his experience to provide the responsiveness, quality, and transparency that customers value most.
Caldic’s European footprint is valuable to pharmaceutical customers who benefit from an integrated European capabilities infrastructure, supported by Good Distribution Practice (GDP) warehousing and an established GDP environment, ensuring that quality and compliance are built into every stage of the supply chain. Caldic can manage import, export, and distribution, which are imperative to service the demanding pharma sector. And, more importantly, Caldic also manages the complexities of API shipping, storage and deliveries, from A to Z. Our network of global suppliers is a key enabler to meet dual sourcing requirements, helping customers mitigate risks and ensuring continuity of high-quality raw materials supply across the region.
Equally important is the company’s commitment to customer requirements. Our teams work closely with pharmaceutical partners to anticipate challenges early in the process. The goal is always the same: minimize risk and build quality in from the very beginning. As Per puts it, “Quality shouldn’t be something you check at the end - it’s something you design into the entire process, from pre-production to delivery.”
Caldic is an international company working across borders with a strong local presence in European countries. This helps us strengthen partnerships across the continent. Our local teams work closely together to exchange knowledge and support one another, ensuring agility and customer focus in everything we do.
Our Italian pharma team will, for instance, maintain a direct relationship with local customers and a deep understanding of the national market. The local offices in Italy will enquire about product specifications and topics we are skilled at, and in turn, we contact them to address questions they are better placed to answer, while fully respecting the customer relationships.
Our cross-functional collaborations provide local offices across European countries with a broader Caldic network for sourcing valuable technical expertise and product insights. This relationship, built on trust and genuine pursuit of teamwork, contributes to a sense of proximity and makes communications across borders much more efficient.
Behind every successful API partnership lies an infrastructure designed to uphold trust. Caldic’s documentation support, quality assurance, and regulatory expertise form the backbone of our value proposition — but it’s the human side, the true partnership, collaboration, and care, that sets us uniquely apart. “APIs,” Per concludes, “are only instrumental in providing our partners with quality, reliability, and partnership. Our customers know that when they work with Caldic, every box is ticked - from compliance to continuity.”
