Acme Laboratories

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The ACME Laboratories Ltd.
Company type Public
DSE:  ACMELAB, CSE:  ACMELAB
Industry Pharmaceutical
Founded1954;70 years ago (1954)
Headquarters,
Bangladesh
Key people
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]

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Corporate history

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.

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