Oubari for Pharmaceutical Industries, LLC (Oubari Pharma was founded in 1989 as the first private Syrian pharmaceutical company to initiate sterile production. It started producing both sterile and oral dosage products under license from renowned European manufacturers such as Rhone Poulenc, Roussel Uclaf, Dr. Mann, and Lisa Pharma.
1994 set a date for Oubari Pharma’s first exporting initiatives to African and Middle Eastern countries. In 1999, Oubari Pharma became among the first companies in Syria to be operating on international recognizable standards such as ISO 9001 with highly equipped laboratories and equipment. The year 2000 marked a milestone in the company’s history as it relocated its production to a new factory situated in the environmentally and ecologically clean area of Al Zerbeh (20km from Aleppo city). The new premises boasted an area of 50,000 m2 of buildings spread over 120,000 m2 of land and was tailored to comply with GMP requirements.It featured dedicated buildings for cephalosporins and penicillins, as well as new high-end lines for the production of soft gelatin capsules, dermatology products, sterile I.V. Today, the Company employs over 500 personnel with products present in different countries around the world including Syria, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Mauritania, Kenya, Libya and Ghana. Its factory is now considered one of the largest in the Middle East with a wide spectrum of both under-licensed and generic pharmaceutical products.
