Skip to content
Frontier Dextrose Ltd.

Frontier Dextrose Limited · DML 000633

Frontier Dextrose Ltd.A company of FDL Pharma Group

Intravenous solutions, terminally sterilised at 121 °C.

The Hattar plant has been in commercial production since 2008. Sterifluid is a terminally sterilised I.V. fluid in medical-grade polypropylene. 61.7 million units shipped in FY2025–26.

Full filling line at Frontier Dextrose

Compounding, bottle forming, wash, fill — in line order

Compounding hall, 8,000-litre tanks
Bottle-forming tunnel
Washing, ion wind and filling stations
Filling line, full length
Filled bottles leaving the filler
Bottles on the outfeed conveyor

What we make

Presentations from 5 ml to 1,000 ml. Forty products on the DRAP register; every registration is self-manufactured.

    StericiproCiprofloxacin 200 mg / 100 ml
    SteriofloxOfloxacin 200 mg / 100 ml
    SterimetMetronidazole 500 mg / 100 ml
    SterimoxMoxifloxacin 400 mg / 250 ml
    Sterifluid-DSDextrose 5% + sodium chloride 0.9% · 500 / 1,000 ml
    Sterilyte-MElectrolytes and dextrose · 500 / 1,000 ml

MINI · 5–50 ml

Small-volume parenterals

Sterile water for injection, potassium chloride 7.45%, sodium bicarbonate 8.4%, sodium chloride 0.9%.

STERI · 100–250 ml

I.V. antibiotic infusions

Ready-to-hang metronidazole, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin.

STERIFLUID · 100–1,000 ml

Large-volume crystalloids

Dextrose 5 / 10 / 25%, sodium chloride 0.9%, dextrose-saline, Ringer, Ringer lactate.

STERIMAIZE · STERIFLUTOL · STERILYTE

Colloids, osmotics, electrolytes

Hydroxyethyl starch 3%; mannitol-sorbitol; electrolyte-dextrose maintenance solutions.

The container is the decision

Polyethylene bottles cannot be terminally sterilised at 121 °C. The resin and the sterilisation route are a single choice.

Polypropylene body
Medical-grade, FDA-listed resin. Melting point 165 °C, so the container survives terminal sterilisation.
Terminally sterilised contents
The sealed, filled container is sterilised at 121 °C. Sterility is achieved in the final container.
Peel-off outer cap
Tamper evidence that is visible at a glance.
Rotatable hanger
Adjusts to the stand rather than the stand to it.
Exploded diagram of a Sterifluid polypropylene I.V. bottle with labelled cap, disk, body and hanger
Sterifluid container, exploded view. Group technical literature.

What the quality function does

01

Raw-material analysis

Incoming materials are checked before they enter the line.

02

In-process checks

Intermediates are held to written specifications at each stage.

03

Finished-product analysis

Released units are tested. Traceability is recorded against the SOP.

04

Stability studies

A standing programme, held to written protocols.

How the plant was built

  1. 2005

    Plant commissioned

    A purpose-built I.V. solutions plant at Hattar, District Haripur.

  2. 2008

    Commercial production

    Sterifluid enters the hospital channel as a terminally sterilised fluid in medical-grade polypropylene.

  3. Today

    Hospital scale

    61.7 million units shipped in FY2025–26.

Two-level compounding hall with 8,000-litre tanks
Compounding hall. Tank labels are in the frame on purpose.
Enclosed polypropylene bottle-forming line
Bottle forming. The polypropylene body is made on site.
Gowned operator at the filling line
Filling line. The operator is gowned and masked.
Filled polypropylene I.V. bottles on the outfeed conveyor
Filled units leaving the filler.