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1949
Ipca Laboratories Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It was co-founded in the year 1949 by K.B. Mehla and Dr. N.S. Tibrawala and was incorporated in 1949 as 'The Indian Pharmaceutical Combine Association Limited’. The company had emerged due to promotion by a few medical professionals and businessmen including K.B. Mehla and Dr. N.S. Tibrawala and was involved in the production of tablets, capsules, vials and ampoules.The company changed its name to ‘Ipca Laboratories Limited' in the year 1964 and to ‘Ipca Laboratories Private Limited' in the year 1966. However, it went back to its old name ‘Ipca Laboratories Limited' in 1988. It was made into a Public Limited Company on 24th March in the year 1993. The company established its first manufacturing facility at Athal in Silvassa for the production of its pharmaceuticals. In 1975, the management of the company was in the hands of Amitabh Bachchan, Ajitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, M.R. Chandurkar and P.C. Godha. They sold their holdings later in 1997.
Ipca Laboratories Limited has seventeen Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient producing facilities present in India in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Sunderland, and North Carolina. The company runs maufacturing facilities in Silvassa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Sikkim, and Gujarat and more. Its first two production plants were established at Ratlam in the year 1984 which produced Chloroquine Phosphate which was an anti-malarial drug.The company has an international presence in a number of countries of Asia, Africa, CIS, and South America, including Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nigeria, Oman, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Ukraine, Vietnam and Yemen. The company entered the US markets through its alliance with Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. Ipca Laboratories Limited has a number of subsidiaries in India, US, UK, Nigeria, Australia and New Zealand by the names Ramdev Chemical Private Limited, Ipca Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ipca Laboratories (UK) Ltd., Ipca Pharma Nigeria Ltd., Ipca Pharma (Australia) Pty Ltd.and Ipca Pharma (NZ) Pty Ltd respectively.
The company specializes in the areas of cardio-diabetology, nephrology, urology, anti-malarial, rheumatologic disorders, dermatology, orthopedics, and neuropsychiatry, pain and hair care.
Some of the top products of the company include ZERODOL-SP, ZERODOL-P, HCQS, FOLITRAX, ZERODOL-TH, CTD, CTD-T, SAAZ, SOLVIN COLD, LARIAGO, GLYCINORM-M, LARINATE, PACIMOL, RAPITHER-AB, MMF, ZERODOL, PARI, ZERODOL-MR, RAPICLAV, LACTAGARD, AZIBACT, REVELOL-AM, LUMERAX, LEFNO, REVELOL, XTOR, PERINORM, KERAGLO-EVA, ETOVA, FOLOUP, RAPILIF-D, ZERODOL-SPAS, TENORIC, PERISET, GLYCINORM, PACIMOL MF, TAZOFAST, RAPILIF, KERAGLO AD, FASTCLAV, FOLOUP-CV, ETOVA-MR, GLYREE-M, RAMCOR, ZERODOL-PT, ADALIPCA, RXPLUS, KERAGLO-MEN, VINICOR-AM and METAGARD.
K.B. Mehla and Dr. N.S. Tibrawala
K.B. Mehla and Dr. N.S. Tibrawala
The contact details for the company are:
Tel: +91 (22) 6210 5000
Email: ipca@ipca.co.in