SMC Ltd

SMC Ltd provides contract manufacturing exclusively focused on medical markets: drug delivery, diagnostics and medical devices. It provides full product services from initial concept through final packaged device including: programme management, design and development, product manufacturing, clinical manufacturing, electronics integration and global supply chain management.

The company works on delivery systems for subcutaneous and intramuscular injection, respiratory and nasal inhalation, and transdermal, intra-ocular, oral, and intravenous drug delivery. Devices are manufactured without the drug or with drug handling under Part 4 compliance for combination products. All Manufacturing Facilities are FDA registered and ISO 13485 certified.

In December 2016, it acquired auto-injector developer Oval Medical Technologies, a UK-based drug delivery device design and development company, specialising in patient-centric autoinjectors. In 2022, it launched Cambridge Pharma, also in the UK, to specialise in pharma services, sterile fill-finish batches of 100–10,000 units for a range of presentations. In 2024, both the Oval and Cambridge Pharma brands were fully integrated under SMC Ltd.

SMC Ltd is privately owned. It was founded in 1988 by Cheetan Patel, and has facilities in the US (CA, WI, OH and MA), Costa Rica, India and the UK.

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