Achievements


  • India's only sterile cephalosporins facility to receive approvals by the USFDA and UKMCA

  • Asia's only USFDA-approved fermentation plant for rifampicin

  • Successful USFDA certification for cefaclor, cefotaxime and 7-ACCA plants in first attempt 

  • Successful transfer of technology by Lupin's quality assurance cell, to evaluate the quality of sterile cephalosporins, to Merck in UK and France

  • Among world's largest manufacturers of anti-TB, cephalosporins and cardiovascular drugs. Dominant market share in rifampicin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide

  • Developed world's first once-a-day tablets for cephalexin and cefadroxil

  • India's first pharmaceutical company to be granted an
    exclusive license by the innovator for marketing a branded finished product Suprax (generic cefixime) in the US