OPPI has presented their annual awards of excellence, which were initiated to recognize, honour and encourage outstanding performance in the pharmaceutical sector. Associated Capsules Pvt. Ltd., part of the ACG Worldwide, has won the OPPI Best Vendor Award, for their performance in the category of 'raw material suppliers'.

Murli Deora, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas was the Chief Guest and handed over the Awards of Excellence to Winners. Gujarat Glass Limited, a five times recipient of the Best Vendor award received this honour yet another time, for their performance in the category of 'packaging material suppliers'.

Current year's, OPPI Marketing Excellence Award was presented to Novartis India Limited for their performance in the marketing of 'Voveran' for the No 1 brand in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry in the 'Existing Pharmaceutical Products' category. Sanofi Aventis was honoured with the Marketing Excellence Award for their performance in the marketing of 'Myoril', an effective and non-sedating muscle relaxant for low back pain, in the 'new pharmaceutical products' category.

The OPPI scientist award was presented to Dr Arvind Kumar Bansal from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) for his outstanding work in the area of 'pharmaceutics'.

Associated Capsules Pvt. Ltd. works in partnership with world leaders in several of its machinery and packaging films enterprises. It is amongst the world leaders in hard gelatine capsules and capsule filling machinery and its products have found ready acceptance in the highly developed world as much as in other countries.

The company is a well integrated group with a special focus on supplying pharma industry requirements in solid dosage forms capsules, capsule filling machinery and tablet presses, packaging machinery as well as moisture barrier and flexible packaging films.

It was the first capsule company in India to receive ISO 9002 - ISO 14000 Certification and the only capsule company in Asia that has been inspected by the US FDA.