Contract manufacturing & QC

We are the Best Partner to Bring
Your Novel Drugs to the Korean Market

Select the strongest manufacturing partner in Korea

Choosing Handok as your manufacturing partner means you are partnering with one of the most accredited companies in Korea. Our state-of-the-art facilities ensure quality, safety and flexibility for our partners, while our good practices continuously earn safety, health, and environmental recognition and awards.
Most of all, partnering with Handok for Korea and Southeast Asia means you are fully compliant with global manufacturing practices. Handok has a Quality Control, Quality compliance and Quality Assurance division that strictly regulates quality procedures to global standards. We are currently exporting products manufactured of such high caliber to more than 50 countries in the world.
Handok continually strives to do more, better and faster, while simultaneously maintaining a high standard of quality to ensure patient safety and meeting customer expectations worldwide.

Key strengths of Handok as a manufacturing partner: Ability to handle the full range of finished dosage forms; A large, modern plant that is continuously improving, equipped with systems designed to prevent any mix-up and cross contamination; New plaster plant constructed in 2016; 24-hour monitoring for temperature, humidity, and differential pressure controls in production area; State-of-the-art automation systems for building management, manufacturing execution, and laboratory information management; Fully compliant with global quality standards: EU, cGMP, WHO, ICH, and PIC/S guidelines; Strong track record as a reliable partner to many leading global companies

Areas of Interest

Let Handok be your manufacturing partner in Korea

Handok is interested in exploring value-adding partnerships both for manufacturing and for quality control to ensure patient safety and meeting customer expectations.

A full range of dosage forms

Handok has capabilities for a full-range of bulk and finished products, including:: - Solid & Semi-solid dosage forms
- Plain tablets and sugar-coated and film-coated tablets
- Creams, ointments and gels
- Lotion, other solutions
Plaster Products: - Plasters
Packaging: - Blisters
- Bottles
- Tubes for creams and ointments

A full quality service

Handok has a comprehensive quality system aligned with recognized global standards. In order to manufacture the industry’s highest quality products, we have a dedicated quality management department comprising quality control, quality compliance, and quality assurance that strictly regulates quality procedures for all products.

Manufacturing partnerships

With world-class manufacturing facilities operating at global business standards, Handok has helped partners successfully produce a variety of dosage forms for their products for Korea and for export to over 50 countries. In 2023, Handok manufactured over 100 products in almost 180 presentations. Tablet production in the same year exceeded 1.0 billion tablets across all formulations.

Annual production capacity

Tablets 2 billion tablets

Semi-solid dosage forms 150 tons

Plasters 420 million units

Handok’s recognized quality policy: Handok consistently strives to meet the highest standards of quality. Handok’s quality level has been verified through numerous audits by global pharmaceutical companies, including GSK, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Sanofi, Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, Roche, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Merck and certified by several authorities including 5 PIC/S countries, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Ukraine and South Africa.

Handok’s Quality Management Systems refer to global standards like EU GMP, PIC/S, cGMP, WHO, ICH guidelines and are managed by being currently updated and implemented. We have much experience in working with the quality function of global pharmaceutical companies and achieving good Quality KPI results.

In addition, Handok has won numerous awards in the fields of health, safety, and environment. We have been designated as a 'Green Company' by the Ministry of Environment for over two decades since 2000 and have been continually recognized by the President of Korea and various government ministries. We have maintained our certification by receiving ISO14001 (Environmental Management System) since 2002, ISO45001 (Occupational health and safety management system) since 2004, and Excellent Workplace Certification for Employee Health Promotion Activities since 2014.

As a result, many leading pharmaceutical companies have partnered with Handok to ensure quality production of key products.

Current major partners for manufacturing

40 Products including Plain tablets, Film coated tablets.