ACG Group

ACG is a pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Mumbai, India. The company has presence in over 100 countries. ACG provides empty hard pharmaceutical capsules, encapsulation machinery, tablet coating systems, tablet compression systems, fluid bed equipment, tablet tooling and performance enhancers along with online and inline analytical and inspection systems. The company also provides blister packing, high barrier packaging films, carton packing machines, camera inspection systems, candy-wrapping machines and end-of-line case packers. 
ACG has about 4,500 employees and is one of the leading manufacturers of empty hard-shell capsules. The ACG group offers manufacturing, packaging, research and development services for the pharmaceutical industry.
ACG business units.
The ACG Group consists of four business units: ACG Capsules, ACG Films & Foils, ACG Engineering, and ACG Inspection.
ACG Capsules.
ACG Capsules is a leading manufacturing company in the global capsules market providing two-piece hard gelatin capsules to pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries in over 100 countries. The company has advanced capsule manufacturing facilities in India, Europe, and Brazil. In 2018, ACG group signed a MoU with Applied DNA Sciences to develop molecularly tagged empty hard-shell capsules for prevention of capsule counterfeiting.
ACG Films & Foils.
The ACG Films & Foils business offers specialty packaging films, high-barrier films, pharmaceutical-grade and camera-inspected range of aluminium-based foils and anti-counterfeiting and polymer films. The products of ACG Films & Foils comply with international standards such as US FDA, Canada-DMF, ISO and European Pharmacopoeia. 
ACG Engineering.
ACG Engineering offers capsule filling machines, tablet press, coating equipment, tablet tooling, blister & cartoning machines, and end-of-line machines. ACG has completed more than 20,000 machine installations. 
ACG Inspection.
ACG Inspection (ACGI) provides solutions for the track-and-trace industry. In 2018, ACG Inspection partnered with Verinetics to integrate ACGI’s track-and-trace technology with TraxSecur, a software designed to detect fraud in the supply chain using serialization and blockchain systems. 
History.
ACG was founded in 1961 by brothers Ajit Singh and Jasjit Singh to manufacture empty hard capsules for Indian pharmaceutical companies. Subsequently, the company expanded to other countries and diversified into related businesses in the pharmaceutical sector. These include equipment manufacturing, packaging, inspection, testing, research and development.
In 2007, ACG acquired the capsule shell manufacturing plant of Lukaps in Croatia. ACG is the first Indian company from the pharmaceutical sector to establish a presence in Croatia. After successfully turning around a sick capsule plant that ACG took over, ACG is planning an expansion at the facility with an investment of about 50 million Euros.
In 2017, Nova Nordeplast, a Brazilian company that produces films and foils was acquired by ACG. In 2017, ACG acquired In2trace, a Croatia-based startup with a proprietary technology in track-and-trace business. 90% of production of ACG’s plant in Croatia is exported to USA, Russia and European countries.
In 1971, SciTech Centre was incorporated in Mumbai. Scitech Centre is the R&D center of ACG that has developed high-speed machines for the pharma industry. The SciTech Centre trains 2,000 pharma professionals every year and also conducts scientific conferences. 
In 2014, ACG Europe was listed among the top 41 fast-growing Indian companies in UK. In 2017, ACG's Capsules site in India’s Pithampur area was EXCiPACT certified for following good manufacturing practices to manufacture pharmaceutical excipients.
Ajit Singh, the founder of ACG has served on the Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) as an Expert Member. He was also nominated to the International Board of the Controlled Release Society, USA.