Cristalia (Brazil)

Brazilian pharmaceutical company founded in 1972 and based in Itapira in the state of São Paulo, one of the largest nationally owned drug makers in the country and vertically integrated from active ingredient synthesis to finished products. Known for anaesthetics, analgesics and central nervous system and psychiatric medicines, it also makes injectables, hospital products, biotechnology derived medicines and veterinary products, and runs its own research and development on new molecules and formulations.