Pakistani firm to set up pharmaceutical plant in Sudan

Oct 2, 2006 (KARACHI) — Efroze Chemical Industries has announced it will set up a pharmaceutical plant, and marketing and exporting firm in Sudan in the next three years.

The House of Medicine Sudan and Efroze Chemical Industries signed a Memorandum of Understanding recently aimed at establishing an elite pharmaceutical manufacturing company which would provide life-saving medicines and drugs to poverty-stricken African countries.

Efroze, which started export operations in 1992, is contributing $1 million to the country’s exports.

New markets explored by the company were Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Singapore in the Far East and Kenya, Nigeria and Sudan in Africa.

Efroze has entered into lucrative markets of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus and by 2003 it had exported its products to 20 countries with over 200 registrations.

(PPI/ST)