Manufacturing

Concord's manufacturing facility is located at 1482-1486, Trasad Road , Dholka, Dist. Ahmedabad, Gujarat State ( India ), and is spread over about 28 Acres of land. The manufacturing facility is a reflection of our commitment to a culture of excellence and a desire to be among the world’s best fermentation based API companies. Concord combines world class technology and international quality standards, with a capability to deliver fermentation, semi-synthetic and synthesis based products. Concord has expertise in bringing laboratory batches to full production scale successfully, through its process engineering competence. The state- of- the- art facility is equipped not only for fermentation but also for downstream processing and dedicated powder processing areas. The eight dedicated manufacturing blocks are designed as per the international regulatory requirements, adhering to cGMP guidelines.

 
Microbiological Laboratory:

Concord houses a sophisticated microbiological laboratory with qualified and trained microbiologists strictly following cGLP guidelines. The microbiology lab is well equipped for Maintenance & Propagation of microorganisms, Inoculum supply to plant and in-process quality check. There are separate clean rooms and lyophilisation facility for l ong term storage of microorganisms. The microbiology laboratory at Concord is designed to meet the biosafety level 2 as per the international guidelines for the safety of microbial laboratories as suggested during the Geneva Convention.

 
Fermentation:

The fermentation plants have a total capacity of about 300m3 along with the supporting equipments. The entire facility has an automated control system which is monitored and controlled by the expert support team of microbiologist, biochemical engineers, chemists etc.

 
Recovery:

The recovery plant comprises of high speed centrifuges, separators, whole broth extractors/ decanters, chromatography columns, commercial prep HPLC, evaporators, stirred tank crystallizers, microfiltration system, nanofiltration system, ultrafiltration system etc. being managed and controlled by a team of well qualified microbiologists, biochemical engineers, chemists etc.

 
Powder Processing Area:

All the product manufacturing units are having dedicated air handling processing areas which are as per Class 100000. The equipments in the powder processing area include HVAC, Stirred tank crystallizers, micronizers for milling, sieving & Rotocone Vaccuum dryer etc.

 
Warehouse:

Warehouse has separate demarcated areas for the storage of Raw Materials with separate control temperature room and dispensing room, packing materials, intermediates and finished goods.  There is also a dedicated cold storage room and an engineering store.

 
Safety, Health and Environment:

The institutional framework includes the responsibilities for environmental management as well as responsibilities for implementing the environmental measures. As a responsible corporate Concord has taken all the necessary steps to maintain the balance of Eco-system by setting up a sophisticated facility for the treatment of the effluents generated from the process which complies all statutory requirements.  The working conditions are maintained to be safe and regular medical check-ups of the employees are done to ensure fitness.