Dora

What Dora does

Dora is an India-based medical consumables manufacturer, exporter, and supplier headquartered in Tirupati. Founded in 1986 and operating under the Dora Industries brand (doraindustries.com), the company produces three core product categories: PPE kits, hypodermic syringes, and vaccination needles. The combination of injection delivery devices (syringes and needles) and infection-control consumables (PPE kits) positions Dora in the routine immunization and public-health supply chain, with the PPE addition consistent with a COVID-era product line broadening.

The company's self-described three roles — manufacturer, exporter, and supplier — indicate a vertically integrated commercial posture covering production, international sales, and direct distribution. This implies Dora serves both institutional/government healthcare buyers (likely including vaccination programs) and downstream distributor channels, with active export operations extending its addressable market beyond India. The legacy syringe and needle business provides a stable, recurring-volume base tied to immunization programs, while the PPE line introduces a more demand-cyclical product.

No further information is available in the source data on production capacity, regulatory certifications, customer mix, revenue, headcount, pricing, distribution specifics, or ownership structure. The company's own web presence is effectively empty (a verification/loading page), so any financial, organizational, or strategic detail beyond the firmographic and product-level facts above cannot be verified from the supplied material.

Name

Dora

Website

https://doraindustries.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Short description

Dora is an India-based manufacturer, exporter, and supplier of medical consumables including PPE kits, hypodermic syringes, and vaccination needles. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Tirupati, the company serves healthcare and immunization markets domestically and abroad.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Devices Manufacturing

NAICS

Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113), Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (3391), Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (339112)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841), Wholesale-Medical, Dental & Hospital Equipment & Supplies (5047)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (Gloves, Masks/Respirators, Gowns, Face Shields) (HLAHANAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Practice Consumables & General Medical Supplies (Needles, Syringes, Gloves, Swabs) (HLAMAFAO)

Keywords

• PPE manufacturing
• Hypodermic syringes
• Vaccination needles
• Medical devices
• Medical supplies export

Headquarters

HQ city

Tirupati

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Dora manufactures, exports, and supplies PPE kits along with hypodermic syringes and needles intended for vaccination. The company produces physical medical consumables for healthcare and immunization use cases, distributing them from its base in Tirupati, India.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PPE Kits Personal Protective Equipment kits manufactured, exported, and supplied by Dora for healthcare and infection-control use. Intended for healthcare organizations, hospitals, clinics, and vaccination programs.
• Hypodermic Syringes Single-use hypodermic syringes manufactured, exported, and supplied by Dora, intended for vaccination delivery and clinical use by healthcare providers and immunization programs.
• Vaccination Needles Needles designed for vaccination use, manufactured, exported, and supplied by Dora to healthcare organizations and immunization programs.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Ansell Limited: Global leader in hand and body protection, including examination gloves and PPE used in healthcare and industrial settings. Broad incumbent competing in the same downstream PPE procurement market as Dora, although Ansell focuses on gloves rather than PPE kits.
• Nipro Corporation (India operations): Japanese medical-device major with an India manufacturing footprint producing syringes, needles, and dialysis products. Comparable needle/syringe manufacturing economics from an India base, competing directly in the same vaccination consumables market as Dora.
• Kimberly-Clark India: Multinational personal protective equipment and hygiene products manufacturer with India operations. Overlaps with Dora's PPE kits category in hospital and industrial safety segments, though Kimberly-Clark is materially larger and broader in scope.
• Terumo India: Subsidiary of Japan's Terumo Corporation, manufacturing and distributing syringes, needles, and blood-bag products in India. Competes head-to-head with Dora on vaccination needles and syringes through an established India sales network serving hospitals, blood banks, and immunization programs.
• Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) India: Global medical-device leader with a major India presence in syringes, needles, and injection systems. Competes with Dora in the same needle/syringe and PPE-adjacent categories but operates at substantially larger scale with broader product portfolio and institutional procurement contracts.
• 3M India (Health Care division): Indian arm of 3M producing and distributing PPE including respirators, masks, and protective eyewear. Directly comparable to Dora's PPE kits product line but at much greater scale, with deeper institutional and channel relationships.

Regional players

• Dispomedica Healthcare India: India-based manufacturer of medical disposables including syringes, needles, and PPE. Smaller, regionally focused player similar in scale to Dora with comparable product categories and an exporter-oriented business model, but with limited geographic reach beyond South Asia.

Direct peers

• Romsons Group of Industries: Agra-based Indian manufacturer of medical disposables including syringes, needles, and PPE-related consumables sold domestically and exported. Directly comparable mid-sized Indian peer with similar product breadth and GTM motion.
• Polymed Medical Devices: Indian manufacturer of medical devices and disposables including syringes, infusion sets, and PPE-related consumables. Comparable product categories, export-oriented model, and India-based cost structure make Polymed one of the closest direct peers to Dora.
• Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices (HMD): India's largest disposable syringe and needle manufacturer and exporter — directly comparable to Dora as an Indian producer of hypodermic syringes, vaccination needles, and related medical disposables, with overlapping export channels into global immunization programs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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