Ishita Drugs & Industries was incorporated in Feb.'92 by Jagdish Agarwal. The company set up a project to manufacture bulk drugs at Sanand, in the Ahmedabad district of Gujarat with an installed capacity of 408 tpa. Commercial production commenced in Jan.'95._x000D_ _x000D_ Recession in some international markets and intense dumping of the Chinese exporters of the bulk drugs originally planned in the product range, necessiated a review by the company of its production programme and product range. It decided to undertake production of fluoro-quinolones, the latest broad spectrum anti-bacterials. _x000D_ _x000D_ The company established an in-house R&D laboratory which has developed a highly improved process technology for norfloxacin. The in-house process technology for norfloxacin was implemented in its plant in Oct.'95._x000D_