The need for producing assured quality peptones and several assorted raw materials arose, when imported materials were found to be of dubious quality. Technocrats came together in 1978 and founded Warkem.
Warkem developed their own technology to manufacture a range of hydrolyzed proteins. Over the years 300 of such products have been marketed globally. Today Warkem have an enviable portfolio, and are known for their hydrolyzed proteins and various bases meant for microbiological, pharmaceutical, nutraceuticals, agriculture, environmental, fermentation, veterinary and vaccine applications. Select culture media too are now available under the Warkem Brand.
International Quality Standards are followed while production and quality checking for all the products. Testing as per European Standards has enabled us to export products in European countries, USA and Japan to name a few. Organization is committed towards Food Safety and internal systems are developed to comply with International Food Safety Management Systems.
Series of refined bacteriological ingredients are manufactured from animal, plant and microbial origin. It encompasses proteins and its derivatives from milk, soya, liver, gelatin and yeasts. Single cell protein like yeast cells adds a special range of bacteriological raw material for culture media manufacturers, fermentation industries, vaccine manufacturing units, Biotechnology
industries etc.
Warkem Biotech were first to introduce a comprehensive range of vegetable protein hydrolysates which replaced animal based protein hydrolysates making the products free from TSE /BSE risks or other related animal based viral diseases.
The Warkem plant near Mumbai is a state–of‑the‑art facility located at Ambernath. This plant has a dedicated section for manufacturing of animal free products . Such facility is one of a kind in the sense no other dedicated animal free products facility is known to exist for vegetable analogues of peptones.