United Biochemicals was founded as Farmis, Inc. in 1996 by former employees of American Biorganics. Operating as a supplier of laboratory biochemicals and buffers, the company worked out of a modest 5,000 square foot plant in Niagara Falls, New York.

By 2002, growth supported the construction of a new 23,000 square foot facility to house buffer manufacturing and sterile liquid formulation/filling suites. The company began manufacturing Tris HCl as its primary product at this facility.