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India's first artificial kidney making facility opens near Pune

18 Dec '12

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India's first artificial kidney or dialyzer and dialysis equipment manufacturing facility has been established recently near Pune, Maharashtra, by the Japan-based pharmaceutical company Nipro Corporation, Business Standard reports.

By far the country's most ambitious project in the medical appliance sector, the enormous factory being set up with an investment of Rs. 7 billion will manufacture dialyzers made from synthetic fibres, disposable syringes and needles, cannulas, IVC (Intravenous Catheters), AVF (Arterial Venous Fistulas) as well as BTS (Blood Tubing Sets).

Spread over an expansive area of nearly 50 acres, the state-of-the-art facility would also install country's first in-house Gamma technology, approved by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, for sterilising medical devices.

About 90 percent of the factory's current capacity of making six million dialyzers per year will initially be exported, said the company.

Technicaltextile News Desk - India