Home > About > Business Units > pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and agriculture pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and agriculture who moves molecules like chess pieces? Through its Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, and Agriculture business unit, Ashland is committed to developing practical and elegant solutions that help advance the competitiveness of our customers. Our products include pharmaceutical excipients to help ensure effective delivery of complex drug molecules, specialty ingredients that enable tastier and more convenient foods, and crop protection chemicals and seed treatments that provide more cost-effective formulations with better crop protection and higher agricultural yields. Though each segment has their own market focus with different end-use applications, all groups are strategically connected by chemistry. Because Ashland’s products are based in both cellulosic and vinyl pyrrolidone polymer manufacturing, we apply a broad range of shared chemistries to meet each of our customers’ formulation needs. Equipped with a solving mindset, we have a global network of research and application scientists with technical expertise to tackle industry’s toughest challenges. Read More > efficacy usability allure integrity profitability about industries investors products sds search global code of conduct suppliers and vendors terms of use privacy transparency in supply chain disclosure efficacy usability allure integrity profitability ©2017, Ashland. All rights reserved.