ACG Group
ACG is a multinational pharmaceutical machinery company with headquarters in Mumbai, India.The company operates in 100 countries across six continents.
The company produces pharmaceutical and packaging equipment, including empty hard capsules, encapsulation and tablet processing systems, fluid bed equipment, and packaging machinery such as blister packers, cartoners, and end-of-line solutions. The company also provides inspection and analytical systems.
History
ACG was founded in 1961 by brothers Ajit Singh and Jasjit Singh to manufacture empty hard capsules for Indian pharmaceutical companies. Subsequently, the company expanded to other countries and diversified into related businesses in the pharmaceutical sector. These include equipment manufacturing, packaging, inspection, testing, research and development.In 1971, SciTech Centre was incorporated in Mumbai as the R&D center of ACG. The Centre trains around 2,000 pharma professionals every year and also hosts scientific conferences.
In 2007, ACG acquired the capsule shell manufacturing plant of Lukaps in Croatia, making it the first Indian company from the pharmaceutical sector to establish a presence in Croatia. After successfully turning around the plant's operations, ACG announced further expansion plans worth 50 million Euros.
In 2014, ACG Europe was listed among the top 41 fast-growing Indian companies in UK.
In 2017, Nova Nordeplast, a Brazilian company that produces films and foils was acquired by ACG.
In 2017, ACG acquired In2trace, a Croatia-based startup with a proprietary technology in track-and-trace business. 90% of production of ACG’s plant in Croatia is exported to the USA, Russia and European countries.
ACG business units
The ACG Group consists of four business units: ACG Capsules, ACG Films & Foils, ACG Engineering, and ACG Inspection.ACG Capsules
ACG Capsules is a manufacturing company in the global capsules market providing two-piece hard gelatin capsules to pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries in over 100 countries. The company operates capsule manufacturing facilities in India, Europe, and Brazil.In 2018, ACG group signed a MoU with Applied DNA Sciences to develop molecularly tagged empty hard-shell capsules for prevention of capsule counterfeiting.