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Legacy takes a customer perspective to gain a competitive edge

Contract packager Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging’s new president uses his end-user experience to create value for the company’s customer-partners, providing them with the agility they need to address developing issues such as serialization.

Contract packager Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging fills solid-dose forms for its customers, sourcing bulk capsules, tablets and softgels globally.
Contract packager Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging fills solid-dose forms for its customers, sourcing bulk capsules, tablets and softgels globally.

What keeps you up at night? For Steve Meeker, it’s answering questions such as: If our company considers itself a “solutions” provider, are we doing enough for our customers, for our shareholders, and for our employees?

Customers long for their packaging supplier partners to provide the agility they need in an ever-changing marketplace says Meeker, a 40-year pharmaceutical industry veteran who was recently appointed President of contract packager Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging.

“We operate in a pharmaceutical industry in which you have to reinvent yourself to exemplify and differentiate your company. You have to create value at all times and focus on what you need from a personnel, technical and facility standpoint to provide the solutions customers need today and in the future,” he states.

To meet those customer needs, St. Louis-based Legacy modernized its 190,000 sq-ft production facility, adding packaging equipment to increase production. Among the most recently added machinery are the following:

• A NJM Packaging Cremer CFI-622 tablet counting and bottle filling system.

• A Serpa P100 cartoner.

• A new cage to its Drug Enforcement Administration-approved Schedule III-V vault that holds up to 300 pallets of product and meets federal regulation code 21CFR 1301.72 for pharmaceutical applications.

Meeker’s experience with pharmaceutical manufacturing firms including Bayer Healthcare (which he says also included a contract manufacturing arm to better utilize investments), Sanofi, and Marion Merrell Dow gives him first-hand understanding of Legacy’s customers.

Legacy packs finished solid-dose forms, with bulk capsules, tablets and softgels sourced globally.

Approach to facility management

Managing a facility to meet customer needs involves more than adding efficient packaging machinery. Meeker explains, “When the company created the floor plan for the modernized facility, it took a very open floor plan and modular concepts to develop packaging suites with great material flow in mind. There are no hard walls within the interior of the building, so it operates like a greenfield facility whose open layout optimizes operations.”

That means separation of bottle unscrambling and bottle filling functions, for example, with positive pressurized air used to prevent corrugated fibers from entering filling suites. HEPA air filtration is used within each filling suite.

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