About Department

The challenge for pharmaceutical industry is to develop the dosage form to the highest quality having low cost in the shortest possible time.

Our Product Development Department plays a vital role in this field.

Our Pharmaceutical products are designed and developed in systematic way to achieve the standard quality required for their intended use.

Our Product Development team is a strong combination of multi-functional activities: Formulation Development, Analytical Development, Validation and Regulatory Team. The Facility is equipped with Lab scale Manufacturing Machinery & Analytical set-up to ensure the integrity of formulation from Lab scale to Pilot scale and subsequent Commercialization. The skilled & dynamic workforce is capable to develop number of dosage forms like Tablet, Capsule, Powder for Suspension, Cream & Ointment, External Liquids, Oral Liquids, ORS & Sterile formulations.

Harmonized with global guidelines of Drug Development our product development process is following the international standard of stability study, packaging integrity & validation activities. Thus, ensures high level of therapeutic efficacy, reliability & patient satisfaction.

The team has diversified experience in Tech transfer of products from the originator. Along with new development and product launch, the team is also focusing on continuous development of marketed products with enhanced product features and quality standards.

The Regulatory wing of R&D is entrusted to take care of all the technical documents required for regulatory submission.

Our Product Development Department is equipped with -

a) Product  manufacturing miniature  machineries and equipment like:

• High Speed Granulator
• Fluid Bed Dryer
• Vibro Sifter
• Multimill
• V-Cone Blender
• Tablet Compression Machine
• Automatic Tablet Coating Machine
• Lab Stirrer
• Oven
• Balance
• Packaging Machine

b) Analytical Lab Equipments and Stability Study Chambers like:

• Binary Gradient HPLC System with UV Detector
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
• Dissolution Tester
• Automated Disintegration Tester
• Halogen Moisture Analyzer
• Tablet Hardness Tester
• Electronic Analytical Precision Balance
• Sonicator
• PH meter
• Photo Stability Chamber
• Climatic Chamber  (Temp. & Humidity Chamber)

Regular Job Responsibilities

Development of new products is the vital function of Product Development Department of an ideal industry.

Product Development Activities with highest quality include the system to develop new products and formulations to confirm product stability and shelf-life, validation, development of specifications of raw and packaging materials in order to ensure that design and development requirements of quality policy are met.

Product Development Department is also responsible for reformulation or modification of existing products, troubleshooting of various problems regarding manufacturing, packaging, storage, stability etc. The manufacturing team of PD Department works on pre-formulation study, research work, lots of PD batch trial for development. Packaging Development team works to develop packing materials for the new and existing products. The analytical team develop analytical method to perform stability study of the PD trial products. BMR, BPR, SOPs and different documents are prepared in this department. Training section of the department carries out training on different documents, SOPs, BMR, BPR etc. Regulatory affair section performs approval of recipe, annexure, insert and Text & Design of packing materials of new products as well as renewal of expired annexure of different products from DGDA.

Periodic Duties

Product Development Department also plays role in Toll Manufacturing in different organization under TMA. Evaluation of new source of Raw and Packing materials is also followed up by PD Department through PD trial and stability study. PD Department is involved in Development Project Proposal for new plants of EDCL and also involved in technology transfer of our existing products for other EDCL Plants. Preparation of product dossier and related documents are carried out by Product Development Department for foreign export supply.

Conclusion

Product Development Department contributes to the company by developing new products, launching new products, modifying products quality. Development of products at minimum cost by maintaining cGMP guidelines increases the productivity and profitability of the company and upholds the image of the company. New product Formulation or change of existing product formulation are required for more cost effectiveness and better quality & stability of the products or for better elegance and lucrative change of mode of packing on the basis of requirement from time to time.

With our product range, we are able to respond to the increasing needs of Essential medicines for physicians, patients, and health care providers in government hospital & clinic  -- both therapeutically and economically.

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