The DSIR National Award for Research
and Developmental activities is awarded to Sami Labs Ltd. Bangalore.
This Award is for the Research and development efforts in Chemical and
allied Industrial sector. Mr. B.S. Rawat, Minister of State in the Department
of Science & Technology, presented the Awards in a function at New
Delhi.
This award is for developing five new
products. This is the17th award received by Sami Labs. The company has
eight US patents, 15 other patents are pending. Nine percentage of the
total income of the company is spent on research and developmental activities.
It
was started as a herbal extracts company in 1991. Dr. Muhammed Majeed,
Chairman & Managing Director of Sami Labs Ltd is a Malayalee. Their
products are mainly targeted on US market. The company has offices at
Cochin, Kunigal, Nelamangala, Mysore and Singasandra. Sami started with
4 workers and has strength of 800 now. It’s annual income is 65
crore now. “It is just because of insurance of the quality, our
products have captured the US market” Dr.Majeed said. Some of
their products are introduced in Indian market also.