About Us

Lejal Laboratories Inc.

Our Story

LEJAL Laboratories, Inc. derived its name from its founder LEANDRO J. ALIPIO. From its humble beginnings dating back to March 13, 1968, it carried the name LEJAL Pharmaceuticals as it was a mere drug department whose main lines of products were manufactured by Coronet Laboratory.

LEANDRO J. ALIPIO developed his prowess in salesmanship early in his life as a medical representative for different local drug companies. Imbued with proper training and sheer determination to succeed, LEANDRO fulfilled his life-long dream by setting up a drug department as soon as first-born Alfonso, became a registered chemist.

Three years thereafter, LEJAL Laboratories, Inc. was established in the family compound in Meycauayan, Bulacan with the basic machineries required by the then Food and Drug Administration. Management was joined by newly graduated Melitona as a Registered Pharmacist and Miguel as a Sales Director with B.S.B.A Marketing background.

It was in the year 1982 when management was taken over by the children – Alfonso, Miguel and Melitona upon the retirement of its beloved founder, the same year which witnessed the addition of more sophisticated equipment to elevate LEJAL’s standards to new levels of pure, safe, and effective products.

Furthermore, new formulations for better medicines were compounded and registered. Today, LEJAL LABORATORIES, INC. is proud to say that it has 50 branded medicines and 60 generic lines.

In 1988, LEJAL acquired more sophisticated production equipment like capsule filling machine, air shower cubicles, etc., to further boost production and quality control of its products. Since that year, LEJAL was one of the five or six pharmaceutical laboratories (multinationals included) in the Philippines that BFAD (Bureau of Food and Drugs) granted citation to for the following Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) without any deficiencies.

LEJAL’s main thrust is the Quality Assurance, hence, its quality control facilities have been modernized by its new acquisition of Tablet Dissolution Tester, Tablet Disintegration Tester, Automatic Tablet Hardness Tester, UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, Stability Oven, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), etc., aside from other required instruments and apparatus already in use long before.

In 1999, LEJAL underwent a massive renovation of its production facilities and upgraded its building and equipment. It also has installed air handling units in compliance with cGMP. Results of test conducted on March 15, 2000 indicate that renovated facilities of LEJAL Laboratories meets class 30k, a level that far exceeds the established norm by Federal Standard 209D.

LEJAL Laboratories, Inc. is a small 100% Filipino family corporation. Being small allows us to carefully monitor every bottle of medicines that leaves our laboratory to assure you, the Filipino consumer, of nothing less than the safest, purest, and the most effective products available.

LEJAL Laboratories, Inc.’s main thrust for the 21st century is to provide a means towards a healthier Filipino and to perennially level with the ever-improving pharmaceutical standard paralleled only by the best.

Preface

The year 2008 has brought about unprecedented challenges for the pharmaceutical industry, especially with the ASEAN Harmonization of standards is in the offing. The seemingly daunting obstacles we faced now seemed like a vital exercise of metamorphosis, a catharsis even, to reach the pinnacle of excellence in quality pharmaceutical manufacturing.

We, at LEJAL Laboratories, Inc. are extremely proud of our products, our facilities, our Quality Management System, and most of all, our people. We have been serving the Philippine market for over forty years, spanning three generations of leadership. We are humbled by the trust and loyalty our clients and end users have been bestowing upon us up to this very day. We continue to work to earn that trust and loyalty by taking a no-compromise approach to quality and price competitiveness. We put service to our clients and end users to the test every single day.

Vision

LEJAL Laboratories’ vision is to provide an alternative, efficacious, and locally produced medicines as means toward a healthier 21st century Filipino and to perennially comply with the world standards of current Good Manufacturing Practice.