Pres Kalam visits Orchid Chemicals facilities in Tamil Nadu

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President of India A P J Abdul Kalam has visited Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd's formulations manufacturing complex located at Sipcot industrial estate, Irungattukottai, near Sriperumbudur, in Tamil Nadu.

An Orchid Chemical and Pharamaceutical Ltd release here said that Dr Kalam went round the new state-of-the-art dosage form facility established for manufacturing 'Betalactam' anti-biotic formulations.

The facility is unique for its technological sophistication and automation and its capability to undertake in-situ lyophilisation of dry powder vials.

In his address to the scientists and staff of the company, Mr Kalam stressed on the convergence of technologies such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, information technology and the emerging nanotechnology, and exhorted the scientists to discover and develop new drugs.

The President also applauded the company's growth in the global antibiotics sector and its advanced R&D facilities.

Speaking on the occasion, Raghavendra Rao, Managing Director, Orchid Chemicals said: ''We are honoured by the visit and address by His Excellency Dr Abdul Kalam. As a first generation enterprise, we are proud to have build global competencies in pharmaceutical manufacturing and research in a short span of dine. We are working on several lead molecules in select therapeutic areas of drug discovery and our goal is to convert them into drugs going forward.'' UNI AR SSS VKG1620

December 02, 2005