Collaboration with other pharmaceutical companies and research organizations are elementary for Orion. Orion has partners in all loops of its value chain.  Partnerships enable wise and smart allocation and use of capacity and resources and provide mutual benefits for both agreement parties. Partnerships mean strong and valuable leverage for Orion’s competitiveness and growth.

Corporate responsibility affairs are weighty criteria for Orion in the evaluation process of partner candidates. A sub contractor or a service supplier demonstrating, for instance, inability to take care of its environmental impacts or to comply with our own ethical standards cannot be accepted.

Supply chain partnerships enable increased output efficiency and allow efficient capacity utilization. It is neither possible nor economically motivated for any company to do everything within own walls. Orion has some of its products or their components manufactured by other companies. Respectively, Orion serves as a contract manufacturer for other pharmaceutical companies. A major part of the value added by Orion is generated in Finland, where all Orion’s manufacturing sites are located.

Marketing partnerships enable efficient distribution channels and  geographically comprehensive availability for Orion’s products in markets not covered by Orion’s own sales organization. Respectively, Orion markets other companies’ products under licence in agreed territories.

R&D partnerships enable Orion to conduct more research, and faster and at lower risk than by doing research alone and with in-house resources only. By procurement of research services from outside Orion can prioritise its own research organization’s resources to projects for which it has the best competence.  Partnerships, networks and memberships in research groups also broaden the scopes of  research activity and open completely new scientific approaches. 

Examples of Orion’s R&D partnerships are presented in the R&D section of this website, on sub-pages titled Research collaboration >>