Indian Pharma Machinery Manufacturers Association (IPMMA) was founded on 23rd December, 2001 at New Delhi and was registered as a trade association to represent specifically the Indian pharmaceutical machinery manufacturers. The estimated business revenue from this sector which includes processing, packaging, utility equipments and other ancillary products is around Rs.1500 crores out which Rs.200 crores account for exports.

IPMMA is always committed towards achieving common goals whereby the benefit will go to all the association members. As mentioned earlier Indian pharmaceutical machinery manufacturers have been one of the key contributors in the growth story of the Indian pharmaceutical and drug industry and therefore the association will put all efforts to understand the need for up-gradation of the manufacturing, designing, marketing and banking skills that are required by the industry and try to render help to small members to help them grow corresponding with the growth of the pharmaceutical industry. However these ideas can take concrete shape only in the next few years after the association grows in size to handle such major responsibilities.

The association is already putting efforts to co-ordinate with several agencies, component suppliers etc. to provide necessary knowledge that could be imparted to the members under a single roof program that would help both the supplier as well the industry in order to save time and money for all the parties concerned.

Today IPMMA has already enrolled 150 members and the association has been recognized by several government, semi-government and trade councils. It is a great pride for the association that these members already export their products to 80 different countries spread across five continents and therefore the association would put efforts to help other non-exporting members to find business inroads into those foreign countries.

IPMMA has already organized two seminars to share the knowledge on the latest trends prevailing in the pharmaceutical industry globally for the benefit of its members.

This seminar was organized on 12th July 2003 at Hotel Tunga International, Mumbai. The key speaker was Mr. S. S. Lamba, a Senior General Manager from M/s. Lupin Laboratories Ltd.

The one day seminar was conducted in order to create awareness about Schedule-M which has a list of guidelines and regulations to be followed by all the pharmaceutical companies and are required to be implemented by all the companies by January 2005 as per the current directives of the Drug Controller of India.

Mr. Lamba mentioned that there are 17,000 pharmaceutical companies in the country and therefore it provides tremendous scope for the machinery manufacturers to exploit the potential by providing necessary machinery by ensuring proper design, ease of user application, simple maintenance and also validation protocol for the new equipment that are essential for the pharmaceutical companies.

More than 100 people attended this seminar.