Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL), based in Pimpri, India

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, is the first public sector drug manufacturing companies setup by the Government of India. It was the first company in India

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 to launch recombinant DNA

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 product, rHU-Erythropoietin

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 (Hemax) in 1993. The company introduced new products like Halpen, Haltax, Hexpan in 2008. Sati-HIV drugs will be produced from September 2009.

History

HAL was setup in cooperation with the WHO

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 and UNICEF with the social objective of providing affordable drugs throughout India. It was inaugurated by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

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 on 10 March 1954. Production began in the year 1955. It was based on Mahatma Gandhi

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's vision that the poor in India should get medicines at affordable rates.

After reporting an operating loss in 1997 the company was reported to the Bureau of Industrial and Financial Restructuring (BIFR). On 17 January 2009 the company was taken off the books of the BIFR after reporting a record turnover of R2. 120 Cr (USD 24 mil).

Operations

Although the company's primary objective was to develop drugs for the heath-care industry, the company has now diversified in the Agro-Vet area as well. The manufacturing plant located in Pimpri has facilities to produce Bulk drugs (capacity 60 MMU annually) as well as Formulations in various dosage forms - injectables (132 million vials), capsules (250 million), tablets (120 million), large volume parentrals (12 million bottles annually), liquid orals, etc.

Health-care

• Ampicillin Sodium
• Benzyl Penicillin Potassium
• Benzyl Penicillin Sodium
• Benzathine Penicillin
• Cefuroxime Sodium
• Amoxycillin Trihydrat

Agro Vet

• Aureofungin (anti-fungal used in preservation of the Fruits and vegetables)
• Humaur (bio-organic foliar spray)
• Streptocycline (antibacterial for effective control of diseases in plants)
• Azotomeal
• Phosphomeal