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Akums: Scaling new highs in India's health care industry

Our Bureau, MumbaiThursday, November 25, 2010, 08:00 Hrs  [IST]

Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd,Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India was established in 2004 by its promoters directors having more than three decades of pharmaceutical marketing & manufacturing experience. Starting its journey with third party manufacturing with one plant , Akums now stands with six manufacturing units of international standards, manufacturing formulations in practically all dosage forms & therapeutic segments.

Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd has plans for setting up its seventh state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for producing world-class oncology formulations in all dosage forms and is going to start the construction of the plant soon. Land for the same has already been acquired, according to a spokesperson of the company.

AKUMS' eighth state-of-the-art facility for R & D, Formulation Development Centre, Analytical Method Development & Stability Studies centre is also under way and will start its operations in the coming year, he added.

Akums has recently commissioned its sixth manufacturing facility - Maxcure Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd plant, which is its wholly owned subsidiary company. Since India is richly endowed with herbs and medicinal plants, it gives Maxcure an added advantage to utilize and make best use of herbs for human health.

At Maxcure, the holistic and modern science unite to create products of herbal, food and neutraceuticals for the most prevalent diseases like hypertension, anxiety, obesity, diabetes, alopecia etc.

Quality, timely delivery, transparency in dealings have made Akums an icon of India's healthcare industry and a quality pharmaceutical manufacturer with global vision. In a span of six years it has become the most sought after company by its clients in India and abroad.

Now Akums has best clients including big MNCs and top pharma companies of India and their leading brands are being manufactured at its plants.

Infrastructure & facilities
Sprawled over an area of more than 800,000 sq.ft, Akums' six state-of-the-art manufacturing units of international standards have modern & sophisticated facilities which include ultra modern plant, machineries & equipment, in-house testing facilities-instrumentations and microbiology laboratories.

Akums has huge per day manufacturing capacity in all sections. It has manufacturing facilities for Low Rh, Clavulanic Acid preparations. The plants are WHO-GMP, ISO:9001 :2008, ISO:1400 :2004, HACCP certified and designed as per US-FDA & UK-MHRA norms.

Business model
?Contract Research & Manufacturing Services ( CRAMS)
?Research & Emphasis of New Formulations and obtaining DCGI approvals
?Technology Development & Transfer to others
?Technical Collaboration & Joint Ventures
?Arranging products registrations of imported drugs.
?Arranging Clinical Trials & Bio-equivalence Studies
?Research & Development of formulations based on N.D.D.S.
?Patenting Innovative Drugs
?Development in Process & Packing
?Development of Infrastructure & Qualified Manpower
?Sustained Improvement in Product Quality

Innovative technology driven Products Akums has developed innovative dosage forms, like;
?Tablet in Tablet
?Effervescent Tablets & Powder
?Capsule in Capsule
?Medicinal jelly in palatable form
?Multiple Tablets in a Capsule
?Taste Masking of bitter drugs
?Instant & sustained release products
?Liquid Vitamins in Soft Gel
?Ready to use Antibiotic Syrups ( Ready Mix)
?Reduction in Tablets/Capsule size by reducing excepients
?Unique multi coloured Tablets
?Chewing Gums ( Medicinal)
?Low Rh Technology & Clavulanic preparations
?Mouth Dissolving Tablets/Powders
?Form, Fill & Seal Technology products
?Multi-coloured tablets
?Pre-filled Syringes
?Painless Propofol Injection

Machineries & laboratories : Ultra-modern & sophisticates machineries, around 100 packaging lines, 5 ALU-ALU, 18 Granulation sections consisting of 2 AF150,RMGs, 4 Fluid Bed Processors, Auto-Coaters, 2 FFS, 7 Tunnels, Sophisticated R & D, F & D and microbiology laboratories equipped with latest instruments, 40 HPLCs, 3 FTIRs, GC,TOC, DG Sets, 7,000 KVA water systems, Scada, Hot & Cold Loop, 450- AHUs etc.

Exports
Apart from doing contract manufacturing for more than 200 leading Indian/multi-national companies for their domestic & export requirements, Akums has made its presence in Libya, Nigeria, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Russia, Ghana, Ukraine , Hong Kong, Philippines and is all set to commence business in various other countries.

The company has a full-fledged regulatory department with qualified & experienced personnel, who can prepare dossiers as per CTD, ACTD and guidelines of MOH of different countries. It has already submitted more than 350 dossiers in different countries.

USP of the company
?Produces the best quality products.
?Has WHO-GMP, ISO:9001:2008, ISO:14001:2004, ISO:17025: 2005 & HACCP.
?Has the highest and the best manufacturing capacity in India.
?Has manufacturing facilities for specialized products as well.
?Has best sophisticated laboratory, best R & D and F & D centres.
?Manufactures highest number of products in India.
?Has large number of technical & non-technical personnel.
?Product delivery quickest in India.
?Has MNCs and top pharmaceutical companies of India/abroad as clients.
?A quality pharmaceutical formulations manufacturer of India with a global vision.

 
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