It was in January 2003 that the Visakhapatnam (also known as Vizag) plant started its operations with 12 production blocks with a total capacity of 1637 M³. The Visakhapatnam site stretches on a 314 acre land and a quarter of the land is covered with over 500,000 trees (a small forest almost).

The built-up area of around 200,000 square feet comprises of QC, Administration block, canteen, warehouse and several other Non-Plant/Utility buildings. The facility is equipped with a dedicated 132 KV power/sub-station on site. The built up area of the manufacturing plant is around 12000 Mts².

The Visakhapatnam facility has been certified for the following management systems.

The production buildings have finished product areas for APIs with clean air, purified water systems that operate under full cGMP as per US-FDA guidelines. There are special areas in production blocks to handle Corrosive, Cyanation, Hydrogenation, Bromination, Nitration reactions and a separate high vacuum distillation production block. It has services for cooling with Liquid Nitrogen, Brine, cool water, heating with thermal oil or steam, warehouses & bulk solvent storage tank farms.

There is an R&D Center and well equipped Quality Control laboratories and an elaborate Quality Assurance and training center. A Modernized Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) with latest equipment like diffusion aerators, air blowers, forced evaporation and special treatment facility etc., handles liquid effluents and treats them chemically and biologically (aerobic & anaerobic) to the specified standards. Incineration is the process employed to treat solids, liquids and gases.

For more information you could have a look at the data sheets of the Divis Visakhapatnam facility given below.