R.P. Chem is focussing on the Research and Development of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) production, processes and analytical improvement since 2015.​ Here below is a summary of the main areas of R.P. Chem's R&D:

• study of non-infringing synthetic routes of API and their intermediates;

• process development up to lab scale;

• study of physical-chemical properties of API; 

• scaling-up of new processes from the lab-scale to industrial plants;

• development and optimisation of analytical methods;

• industrial processes security studies;

• technical documentation and support to regulatory department of R.P. Chem (MSDS, analytical methods, bibliographic search);

• DMF (drug master file) filing and technical support.