The 1st Arab exhibition for Pharmaceutical Industry and technologies
The 1st Arab exhibition for Pharmaceutical Industry and Technologies was held in Damascus on March 20 through 23.
Among main companies taking part in this exhibition is the ACDIMA center for Bio-equivalence and Pharmaceutical Studies which is a non- profit research center that provides a human volunteer and patient based Bio-equivalence tested services to the pharmaceutical industry.
This venture grew from the research core of the Arab Company for Drug Industries and Medical Appliances ( ACDIMA), due to the increasing needs of the Arab Pharmaceutical Companies as well as the Arab Health ministers to provide such services encompasses clinical, analytical, statistical, management of the study and quality assurance components of Bio-equivalence testing. It covers protocol and Code of Federal regulations (CFR) development though ethics committee approval, volunteer recruitment, dosing and sample collection. Analytical method development, analysis of samples, statistical evaluation and production of final reports ready for submission to regulatory authorities are included.
Another participating company is the Syrian "Avenzor" for Pharmaceutical Industries. It was established in 1992 under the investment law no 10.
In its beginnings the company pioneered the manufacturing of under- license products from major multinational pharmaceutical companies, and introduced many sophisticated products under AVENZOR name.
Moreover, many new products are in the pipeline and others under study with other multinational pharmaceutical products. In its current second phase the company will carry additional production lines for sterile forms like injectables & eye drops, and a separate antibiotic plant will be completed.
The company's personnel team consists of highly qualified college graduates with PHD, MSc, BSc Degrees with long sophisticate experience in their fields, complemented by skilful personnel in each department, all work collectively to ensure that only the finest quality products are being shipped to the market.
Another participant is " Nameer technical center for water & waste treatment and swimming pools. This company was established in 1986 and was specialized in water treatment, industrial waste treatment, swimming pools equipment, and environment protection.
Concerning water treatment and waste water treatment Nameer technical Center NTC executed several projects for both state run and private sectors. besides the NTC carried out a lot of studies and designs and supervised many projects for different sectors such as industry, tourism, public health, services and utilities. The center represents several foreign companies working in the different fields of water treatment. It deals with all the works of execution, periodical and urgent maintenance and before and after sale services depending on a specialized staff of engineers and technicians.
Rarou Pakhsh, the leading pharmaceutical company founded in 1956 also took part in the exhibition. Initially the plant had been designed o produce 20 dosage forms. During over 40 years of activity in pharmaceutical industry, the company has been employing many qualified pharmacists, expert chemists and skilled technicians. Also, modern machinery installation, equipping the laboratories with new analytical instruments, taking advantage of facilities along with decades of gaining scientific knowledge has brought the company up to date in all its sections which conform to the latest standards.
ACDIVET, is a new Syrian factory for the production of veterinary production. It is situated near Damascus and belongs to ACDUIMA ( Arab Company for Drug Industries and Medical Appliances ), which is a pan- Arab share- holding company established by a resolution of the Arab Economic unity council. Its production sections are Tablets ( boluses); powder( Sachets ); vials( injections, and Liquid sections. ACDIVET has also four laboratories. They are physical, chemical, micro-biological and improcess laboratories.