The three-day exhibition was inaugurated by Dr VG Somani, Joint Drugs Controller General (India), who was the Chief Guest for the ceremony. Dr DS Mandloi, Director, MSME Development Institute, Indore was the Special Guest of the ceremony.
Other dignitaries who addressed the gathering were Daara Patel, Secretary General, IDMA, India, Ramesh Shah, Chairman, PharmaTechnologyIndex.com, Paresh Chawla, Chairman Local Organising Committee and SV Veeramani, Vice President South, IDMA. The MP state board of IDMA was inaugurated by Mahendra Hardia, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Madhya Pradesh. Chawla was elected as the Founder Chairman of MP State board.
Somani said that Madhya Pradesh is fast catching up with neighbouring states like Maharashtra and Gujarat due to the presence of pharma manufacturers such as IPCA Laboratories, Lupin, Cipla, Ranbaxy, Pentagon, Plethico, Alpa labs, MCW Healthcare, IMA-PG etc.
Around 100 companies from all over India participated in the event, besides companies from South Korea, Germany, the US, China and Hong Kong. All companies exhibited their latest technologies and products. Exhibitors at the expo consisted of processing plant and machinery, packaging materials and machinery, lab equipment and lab wares, R&D and quality control etc. Participants were also from the environment and pollution control as well as trade associations and promotion bodies.
The expo displayed latest products, machinery, equipments for business generation and up-gradation. It had projected quality controls as well as government regulations & controls. It also projected the brand value of organisations, joint venture firms, partnership firms, project collaborations, transfer of technology, investments and R&D.
A full-day seminar on ‘Pharmaceutical Stability Study’ was organised on the second day which was conducted and sponsored by Newtronic Lifecare Equipment. The seminar was inaugurated by Daara Patel, Secretary – General, IDMA and the proceedings were carried forward with opening remarks along with a technical presentation by the sponsor Navin Mehta of Newtronic Lifecare Equipment. Kapil Bhargava, Deputy Drugs Controller, India (Retired), made some interesting presentations during the seminar on the regulatory issues vis-à-vis stability chambers.
The second session of the conference was conducted by MSME on the barcoding systems of the pharma industry and VP Sharma gave detailed information on the barcoding and its application. Jigish Chiniwala of Condot Systems gave exquisite details about barcoding applications.
The third day saw poster presentations by the final year students of many pharmacy colleges in and around Indore on the various latest technological advancements of pharma products. The best poster presentation was selected from amongst the participants by Prof SK Jain of Smruti College of Pharmacy and Anil Kharia of Modern College of Pharmacy. More than 700-800 students took part in it.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai