Packaging
Brecon Pharmaceuticals and Anderson Packaging Join Forces To Provide Global Packaging, Storage, and Distribution Service
Monday 28. March 2011 - Hay-on-Wyes Brecon Pharmaceuticals and Rockford, Illinois Anderson Packaging have joined forces to provide clinical trials customers with a global packaging, storage and distribution service. The sister companies - which are both part of the AmerisourceBergen Corporation - are now partnering up to provide solutions under the services name of AndersonBrecon Clinical Services.
AndersonBrecon Clinical Services supplies customers throughout the world with pharmaceutical solutions, right through from Phase I trials to commercial product launches and post-approval studies. So successful has the service been since its inception that the Rockford, Illinois site has recently been expanded in order to provide customers on either side of the Atlantic with harmonised, tailored solutions. The result of the expansion is a transatlantic service that enables US customers speedy and efficient access for their clinical trials materials into the EU, and vice versa.
The Rockford sites facilities now incorporate class 100M / ISO 8 level clean rooms, placebo capsule manufacturing facilities and equipment which can package solid oral doses and powders in pouches, bottles and blisters. There are also secondary packaging facilities that can be interconnected for scalable and multi-stage operations, and capabilities include child-resistant blister carding and secondary labelling. The new equipment joins the facilitys on-site packaging, storage and distribution services that cater for investigational products including cold chain support for refrigerated and frozen products, as well as laboratory services for analytical development and testing.
“The relationship between Brecon Pharmaceuticals and Anderson Packaging has enabled us to provide customers with top-quality clinical trials services,” comments Sue Miles, head of clinical trials services at Brecon. “In this increasingly globalised world, it is imperative that we are able to offer our clients fast, tailored and trustworthy solutions to their product markets. AndersonBrecon means we can efficiently connect our customers in North American and Europe to their sites wherever they may be. And now, with the development of a dedicated clinical trials facility in Rockford, we can offer them even more top-level solutions.”