ASPEN LABS
Aspen Labs is a company with more than one hundred years of life in the global pharmaceutical aspect . The company was founded in 1850 in South Africa , and reached Latin America by the year 2000 , established under a joint venture between the pharmaceutical company Strides Arcolab Limited .
Years later , the corporation purchased distribution rights of four products of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited .
Aspen Labs in Mexico
By August 2000 , the pharmaceutical company established its presence in Mexico , inaugurating a factory in the city of Toluca . This plant has the latest manufacturing equipment and pharma machineries , such as blisters to produce more than 1,150 million tablets and 55 million capsules . Aspen Mexico also produces generic oral solids under the strictest standards in the industry and holds an exporting license from COFEPRIS ( Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks ).
Mexico is also one of the largest and most important pharma markets in Latin America . Its annual sales represent more than five percent of the company ’ s revenue , a figure projected to double despite the rising dollar .
80 September 2015