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Pii Captures Lightning in a Serialized Bottle

Track-and-trace systems at Pharmaceutics International, Inc. integrate into its existing packaging lines, helping the CDMO become serialization-ready.

Pharmaceutics International, Inc. (Pii) is looking beyond the regulatory horizon and moving lightning-fast to meet the requirements of tomorrow. Functioning at this leading-edge means that the Hunt Valley, MD-based Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) continuously adopts the latest in best practices.

Those include manufacturing capabilities that have helped Pii grow to upward of 250 scientists and supporting staff since its beginning in 1994. The science-driven company provides dosage form development and cGMP manufacturing services to the global pharmaceutical industry, catering to major multinational and virtual pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

The CDMO’s 430,000 sq-ft of space at its U.S. facilities contain more than 70 manufacturing rooms, as well as containment suites for handling high-potency compounds and hormones, dedicated manufacturing suites for soft gels and injectables, a formulation development center, and analytical laboratories.

Pii’s facilities are inspected by both the FDA and EMEA and are registered with the DEA (schedules I-V).

Last year, Pii installed flexible track-and-trace systems from Mettler-Toledo PCE to two bottle filling/packaging lines. Within the next month or two, Pii also expects to be serialization- and aggregation-ready on two cartoning lines. One of these is for placing labeled vials into cartons, the other for packing blister cards into cartons.

“This project was all about getting serialization-ready,” says Koshy George, Associate Director of Validation and Technology Transfer at Pii. “We looked at the solutions available on the market and considered efficiency, versatility, cost, and the size of our production levels. We decided that Mettler-Toledo PCE was the best supplier for our current and future needs.

“On top of that, we have equipment from Mettler-Toledo on the production side of our facility, and we’ve always had great experiences with their customer service. That kind of help is especially important for our first serialized lines.”

Alex Chase, Pii’s Validation Associate, points out, “Since track and trace was a new technology for us, we appreciated that Mettler-Toledo PCE was able to provide all of the required support, from purchasing to commissioning of the equipment. Our teams were able to work effectively together to implement this new technology. Mettler-Toledo helped along every step of the process, and the PCE equipment has been great.”

Chase adds, “Installation was very simple. Our existing equipment, like bottle labelers and printers, were integrated with these new solutions without any trouble.”

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