Event
Name : A Brief Report on “INDUSTRIAL VISIT” at HiGlance Laboratories, Surajpur, Greater Noida
Date : 25-03-2023
Venue : Metro College of Health Sciences and Research
Metro College of Health Science & Research organized an industrial visit on 25th March 2023 for B. Pharm 4th year students to HiGlance Laboratories, Surajpur, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The objective of this industrial visit was to acquaint the students with the industrial setup and help them establish correlation between theoretical and practical knowledge. In this regard, the industrial visit of B. Pharm 4th year students was conducted under supervision of Dr Rahul Kaushik, Ms. Sakshi Minocha and Ms. Pinki Gupta.
This training is universally regarded as a vital component of pharmacy education and is an indicator of the extent of industry –institute interaction, which is very essential to correlate the theoretical Knowledge with Practical Knowledge and also important for the growth of industry as well as for attaining excellence in technical education.
HiGlance Laboratories is an industry of well repute and students visited Manufacturing section, Quality Control section, HVAC System and Quality Assurance area.
Mr. K K Chaudhary (HR) addressed the students and gave brief introduction of HiGlance Laboratories. The company was established in 2003. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Mr. Ajay Singh and Mrs. Kalawati Devi are the directors of Higlance Laboratories Private Limited. The registered office of the company is situated in New Delhi and many representative offices are established in national regions to give Feedback and fast service to our customers.
The pharmaceutical formulations plant and administrative office is located at Greater Noida, outskirts of New Delhi. A production area of 10,000 square meters with state of the art manufacturing facilities, having a production capacity of 2 billion units of tablets, 300 million units of capsules, 30 million bottles of liquid (syrups and suspensions) per annum and 150 Metric Ton pellets annually (Immediate/Controlled Release). The plant is design as per the cGMP concept and equipped with world's ultramodern manufacturing technology & sensitive control systems ensuring adherence to strict quality norms and standards that are accepted in the pharmaceutical arena.
HiGlance is recognized as a reliable source of High Quality and wide range of pharmaceutical formulation products that treat major disease areas: allergy, diabetes, cardiovascular, CNS, infections & infestations, musculoskeletal, gastro-intestinal, respiratory, tuberculosis, nutrition & metabolism etc. The factory has its own fully equipped laboratory with in-house testing facilities for the products and has adequate and competent staff to carry out the manufacturing operations as well as product analysis. They conduct timely self-inspection and quality audits to detect any shortcomings in the quality standards and recommend necessary corrective actions.
After this brief introduction of company, students were proceeded to visit Engineering Dep, manufacturing unit and QA- QC wing one by one. Mr. Amit Kumar (Deputy Engineer) explained the student about HVAC system and Purified water system of the plant. Mr. Praveen (Head of Production Dept.) told the students that the plant has facilities for manufacturing of different dosage form i.e. Tablets, Capsules, syrups. She showed each section to the students starting from granulation to the packaging section of each category of products by explaining role of each and every section separately for the manufacture of various products. Ms. Sunita Sarma (QC) guided the students to the QA-QC department of the plant and take the students to Quality Control Laboratories which are set up as per cGLP guidelines & having HPLC, GC, polarimeter, Sonicater, Digital Hardness Tester and UV instrumentation etc.
After visit there was a vote of thanks from the faculty member of MCHSR to the Plant Head and HR member of HiGlance Laboratories for their kind hospitality and great cooperation.
The visit provided a good gain of knowledge to the students that helped them to understand practical aspect of theory studied in their course work. The students were thankful to the management and faculties of Metro College of Health Sciences & Research for organizing the industrial visit that helped them to get insight into pharmaceutical manufacturing plant.
