Almac Group Expands US Specialized Commercial Packaging Capabilities
April 16, 2018
Audubon, PA, 16 April 2018 – Almac Group, the global contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing organization, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its US commercial packaging capabilities at its Audubon, PA facility.
Addressing increased client demand of developing and bringing more advanced medicines and niche orphan drugs to market, Almac Pharma Services has enhanced its offering by adding bespoke technology for the specialized packaging of complex kit assembly for medical devices, combination products and biologic packs.
The innovative semi-automated packaging system (SAPS) was tailor designed, built and installed by Almac’s in-house engineering team providing a best-in-class packaging solution for medical device kits and parenteral delivery forms.
The SAPS line provides a streamlined and efficient semi-automated process for the packaging of complex medical kit components and can process both standard and custom syringes, as well as auto-injector pens and any other medical devices. The highly customisable technology can operate to various scales, allowing for a variety of pack formats from sample kits to marketing packs in addition to multi-product dosage packaging.
Ensuring quality is guaranteed throughout the process, the specialized packaging line has multiple state of the art vision systems providing 100% automated verification and rejection of all components, ensuring variable data correctness, full color recognition and medical kit completeness.
Graeme McBurney, President and Managing Director of Almac Pharma Services commented “Almac continues to invest in, and expand upon, our US commercial packaging capabilities. The introduction of this specialized technology not only enhances our existing US commercial labeling and packaging capabilities, but provides an efficient and cost effective semi-automated packaging solution to meet the evolving packaging needs of our client partners.”
To find out more visit the Almac booth #524 at this year’s CPhI North America in Philadelphia from 24th April.
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About Almac Group
‘Partnering to Advance Human Health’
The Almac Group is an established contract development and manufacturing organization that provides an extensive range of integrated services to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors globally. The services range from R&D, biomarker discovery development and commercialization, API manufacture, formulation development, clinical trial supply, IXRS® technology (IVRS/IWRS) through to commercial-scale manufacture.
The international company is a privately owned organization that has organically grown over almost 50 years and now employs close to 5600 highly skilled personnel. Almac is headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland with operations in the UK, Ireland, across the US (Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California) and in Asia (Singapore and Tokyo).