Skag

Founded in 1815, Macfarlan Smith Limited is one of the world's oldest pharmaceutical companies, with almost 200 years of expertise in natural product extractions and chemical synthesis, specialising in opiate narcotics such as codeine and morphine.

Over the past two centuries, we have collaborated with Lord Lister, supplied chloroform to Sir James Simpson, and produced the first liquid essence of coffee. Today, as part of Johnson Matthey PLC’s Fine Chemicals Division, the company operates a state-of-the-art plant to the highest level of cGMP.