Aurobindo Pharma is eyeing to invest up to $200 million on Capex and over five percent of sale value on Research and Development (R&D) during the current financial year. The majority of the CAPEX should be in terms of creating certain both finished dosage and API capacities.
The company had spent $225 million on capex last year and R&D expenditure was at Rs 872 crore or 4.5 percent of the revenues for the year.
Aurobindo Pharma is engaged in manufacturing pharmaceutical products. It offers active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates and generic formulations like astemizole, domeperidone and omeprazole; anti-infective, oral and sterile antibiotics, pain management and osteoporosis segments.