FERRING

History

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1950 Dr. Frederik Paulsen and Eva Frandsen established Nordiske Hormonlaboratorie, which focused on hormones, chemical and physiological research, and their application in medicines. 
1954 Frederik Paulsen changed the company name from Nordiske Hormonlaboratorie to Ferring.
1956 Ferring moved from its rented location to its first self-owned factory in Malmö.
1961 Ferring expanded its business with the industry-scale production of synthetic peptide hormones vasopressin and oxytocin across the pharmaceutical industry.
1972 Ferring launched MINIRIN, an anti-diuretic hormone used to treat diabetes insipidus, nocturnal enuresis, and bedwetting.
1973 The company established its first production site in Kiel, Germany.
1990 Ferring opened its new subsidiaries in Eastern and Western Europe, South America, Asia, South Africa, and the Middle East.
1993 Ferring introduced its first product, MENOGON, in the area of infertility, to treat infertile couples.
2000 Ferring launched TRACTOCILE (atosiban), a new chemical entity manufactured by Ferring’s researchers to treat pre-term (premature) labor.
2011 Ferring acquired Cytokine PharmaSciences Inc. (CPSI) and its subsidiary, Controlled Therapeutics Scotland (CTS), and formed Ferring Controlled Therapeutics to continue its manufacturing activities in Scotland.
2018 Ferring acquired Rebiotix Inc., bringing together two advanced healthcare companies that share a commitment to exploring and understanding the human microbiome to develop new patient solutions.