Ashco Industries bags Cipla, Matrix orders

Ashco Industries, a bio-services company and supplier of analytical equipment, has added two new clients - Cipla and Matrix.

Ashok Kotwani, managing director, Ashco Industries, said "the company offers research and testing facilities to a number of domestic and global clients in pharmaceuticals, food & water, fertilisers & chemicals, petroleum, metallurgy. In the first week of October, we have signed up with Cipla to provide clinical research services and with Matrix  bio-equivalence (BE), bio-availability studies (BA)".

The company after initiating Rs 9 crore expansion to its Ashco Contract Research Centre and having laboratories at Mumbai, Noida and Hyderabad has been adding clients regularly which includes Wockhardt, Dr Reddy's, Dabur, Lupin, Panacea Biotech, BASF, Ajanta Pharma, Cadila, Clariant, Novartis, Colgate Palmolive, Hindustan Lever, Coca-Cola, Dr Frik (Turkey) Rusan Pharma (South Africa).