Acme Laboratories

This article is about a pharmaceutical company. For ACME Laboratories open source software, see Jef Poskanzer.

The ACME Laboratories Ltd.

Company type	Public
Traded as	DSE: ACMELAB, CSE: ACMELAB
Industry	Pharmaceutical
Founded	1954; 71 years ago (1954)
Headquarters	Dhaka , Bangladesh
Key people	Mizanur Rahman Sinha (managing director) Nagina Afzal Sinha (chairperson)
Website	acmeglobal.com

The ACME Laboratories Ltd. is a pharmaceutical company based in Bangladesh. It is part of the ACME Group of Companies.[1][2][3][4] Mizanur Rahman Sinha is the managing director and largest shareholder of the company and Nagina Afzal Sinha is the chairperson.[5]

Corporate history

• 1954 Year of the establishment (initially as a partnership)
• 1976 The firm was converted into a private limited company
• 1983 Commercial operation at the modernized plant equipped with sophisticated and advanced facilities
• 1995 Company reaches golden jubilee

Following regulatory approval in March 2019,[6] ACME began exporting to the United Kingdom in December 2019.[7] The next year, they entered the United States market by exporting Zolpidem, a generic sleeping tablet.[8][9]

The company set up a plant in the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) Industrial Park in Gazaria Upazila of Munshiganj District by March 2023,[10] but was unable to start production for a year because of the lack of a natural gas connection. Titas Gas blamed insufficient gas supply for the delay.[11][12]

Factories

ACME's plant is located at Dhulivita in Dhamrai, about 40 km northwest of Dhaka.

References

1. "Dragon Sweater gets go-ahead for IPO". The Daily Star. 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
2. "Pharma industry set for expansion". The Daily Star. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
3. "Pharma sales upbeat". The Daily Star. 2009-09-12. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
4. "Bangladesh Business Awards 2006". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
5. MarketScreener. "The ACME Laboratories Ltd. : Shareholders Board Members Managers and Company Profile | BD0491ACME00 | MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
6. "European markets now open for ACME Lab". The Financial Express. 12 March 2019.
7. Tuhin, Ahsan Habib (5 December 2019). "ACME Lab enters England market this month". The Business Standard.
8. "ACME launches Zolpidem tablet in the US market". The Financial Express. 15 October 2020.
9. "Acme set to enter US market". The Daily Star. 16 October 2020.
10. Chakma, Jagaran (20 March 2023). "Local production of pharma raw materials gaining traction". The Daily Star.
11. Chakma, Jagaran (8 August 2023). "Factories at API park still unable to start production". The Daily Star.
12. Chakma, Jagaran (17 March 2024). "Production at API Industrial Park to begin next month". The Daily Star.

External links

• Official Site
• Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Society