Advanced Chemical Industries Limited, commonly known as ACI, has made its first-ever direct export of pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh to the United States of America.
The company said this at an event held in the capital on Thursday.
The products were shipped from the US Food and Drug Administration-approved facility of ACI HealthCare Ltd in Narayanganj to the company’s subsidiary in ACI Healthcare USA, Inc.
M Mohibuz Zaman, managing director and chief executive officer of ACI HealthCare Limited, said that ACI Healthcare USA was the first Bangladeshi company in America.
It is a matter of huge pride that ACI is currently a common name in the US healthcare distribution system, he added.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Khurshid Alam, director general at the Directorate General of Health Services, and Major General Mohammad Yousuf, director general at the Directorate General of Drug Administration, were present as special guests at the event.
ACI Group chairman M Anis Ud Dowla and managing director of ACI Ltd Arif Dowla were also present at the event.
It is the first time that a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company has been marketing, selling and distributing pharmaceuticals directly in the US market, said Md Wadud Hossain Siddiquee, ACI product manager.
ACI HealthCare Limited, a sister concern of ACI, was established on February 18, 2013, to manufacture and market pharmaceutical products for regulated markets, especially in the USA.
ACI has been exporting pharmaceuticals to 50 countries and has product marketing approval from 15 countries.
