Darou Pakhsh Holding Company ( fa, شرکت کارخانجات داروپخش, ''Shirkæt-e Karxanujat-e Darvipaxesh'', lit. ''drug distribution company'') is a major pharmaceutical company in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. The company is majority-owned by the
Social Security Organization of Iran. The company manufactures, distributes, imports and exports finished products and pharmaceutical raw materials. Darou Pakhsh has an annual turnover of US$400m and claims to have the largest research and development operation of any
Iranian drug firm.
The company formed a
plasmapheresis joint venture with a German medical firm,
Biotest AG, in early 2004.
Darou Pakhsh is listed on the
Tehran Stock Exchange
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.
History
Initially, the plant had been designed to produce 20 dosage forms. During over 40 years of activity in pharmaceutical industry, the company has been employing many qualified pharmacists, expert chemists, & skilled technicians. Also, modern machinery installation, equipping the laboratory with new analytical instruments, taking advantage of facilities along with decades of gaining scientific knowledge has brought the company up-to-date in all its sections which conform to the latest standards
See also
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Pharmaceutical industry in Iran
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Pharmaceutical companies of Iran
Companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange
Pharmaceutical companies established in 1956
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Iranian companies established in 1956