01 July 2019, Elbrit Life Sciences announced a 2 million USD
 investment in setting up of its second manufacturing facility in Singtam,
 East Sikkim. 
 Elbrit Life Sciences currently owns a manufacturing facility in
 Pondicherry with a capacity to manufacture 2 million units of solid
 dosage formulations per day. The new facility in Sikkim will have a
 production capacity of 4 million units per day. The proposed facility will
 be UKMHRA and EUGMP complaint. The planned factory will be a state
 of the art infrastructure. The plant will majorly focus on manufacturing
 finished solid dosage formulations for its domestic business as well as
 export business. Elbrit Life Sciences chose Sikkim its destination for its
 upcoming facility because of its emergence as a leading hub for
 pharmaceutical manufacturing, favourable geographical conditions,
 availability of skilled manpower and excellent co-operation from the state
 government.
 The firm currently manufactures and markets a wide range of branded
 formulations across India with a major focus on cardiovascular, anti-
 diabetic and neurology range and overseas markets with a major focus
 on nutraceuticals. The company exports a wide range of nutraceutical
 products to South East Asia, Russia and Latin American countries. As
 the company looks to set a strong foothold in the domestic market and in
 the international market, the new facility will play a vital part in the
 company’s growth story.
The company’s new manufacturing facility in Sikkim will generate direct
 employment for at least 250 people. This will be a part of the company’s
 commitment to the Make In India initiative by the Honourable Prime
 Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi ji.
 The company aims the second manufacturing facility to be operational
 by mid of 2020 and expects the regulatory approvals to be completed by
 2021. The new facility will help the company to expand its global
 footprint both in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical segments.
 The company spokesperson also intimated that, the Elbrit Life Sciences
 is currently manufacturing 65% of its domestic requirement and 80% of
 its overseas requirement in its Pondicherry facility. With the addition of
 the Sikkim facility, the company will look to manufacture 100% of its
 requirement inhouse.
 Elbrit Life Sciences is looking to diversify into Oncology, Gynaecology,
 Paediatrics and Critical Care Nutraceuticals in the first half of next fiscal.
 Speaking of new product launches, Elbrit Life Sciences has already
 launched three new products in the year and three more additional
 product launches are lined up in the second half of this fiscal. Elbrit Life
 Sciences will constantly launch new products to meet the growing needs
 of the Indian demographics.
 The company spokesperson also added that the Elbrit Life Sciences is
 adding more front line medical representatives both in India and in
 overseas markets. By end of this financial year, Elbrit Life Sciences
 plans to add an additional 500 front line sales executives in
 unrepresented geographies domestically. Currently the company
 employs more than 500 medical representatives across India and more
 than 100 medical representatives in overseas markets. The company
 aims to be among the top 100 firms in the domestic market by end of FY
 21.