Ashland’s life sciences laboratory in Hyderabad, India has attained ISO 17025:2017 certification, an international standard for laboratory management that sets the requirements for a laboratory's competence, impartiality, and consistent operation.

“We are thrilled to achieve ISO 17025 certification,” said Nelson David Corda, general manager, life sciences, Asia Pacific. “It strengthens our ability to thoroughly support our regional customers while providing critical global support as an additional qualified lab for quality retests and stability work.”

“Achieving ISO certification in our Hyderabad lab signals another important step in the achievement of our long-term strategy.” said Ashok Kalyana, senior vice president and general manager, Life Sciences, Ashland, “We are building on our global capability to be responsive to our customers’ needs as they solve for performance attributes that will allow patients to take medicine in more convenient and tolerable ways.”

Ashland’s pharmaceutical business is well known for acetylenics, cellulosics, and film coatings, and these polymers have a rich and diverse history supporting active pharmaceutical ingredient delivery.