PCI Pharma expands its serialization capability

The multi-site installations support a variety of drug delivery forms, including bottles, unit cartons and parenteral kits, as well as unit dose wallets and child resistant/compliance prompting packaging.

PCI Pharma Services has announced a significant expansion of its serialization capability across the company's global supply network to support clients in advance of meeting both US DSCSA and EU FMD implementation dates.

The company has been actively serializing commercial products for both domestic and international markets for the past 5 years, with products destined for North America and Europe, in addition to emerging market geographies such as South Korea, Turkey, Brazil, China and others. In total, PCI supports medicines destined to over 100 global countries. The company's expansion triples its global serialization capacity in advance of upcoming DSCSA and FMD requirements.

PCI has partnered with Antares Vision, Marchesini and Domino for this latest installation, utilizing Antares’ leading serialization platform and technology architecture across a variety of serialization technology platforms and applications. The multi-site installations support a variety of drug delivery forms, including bottles, unit cartons and parenteral kits, as well as unit dose wallets and child resistant/compliance prompting packaging.

In addition, serialization technologies support ancillary and tertiary packaging, corrugated shippers and palletization solutions for supporting multi-level product aggregation. Aggregation is technically not a requirement for compliance to the 2017 DSCSA deadline, however PCI has strongly supported the advanced use of aggregation to realize significant benefits in packaging operations as well as the broader pharmaceutical supply chain.

Commenting on the expansion, Vice President of Global Engineering, Ken Richardson shared: "Serialization preparedness is the topic on everyone’s mind in the pharmaceutical industry. We are very excited about the next phase of our global serialization initiative and brand security program here at PCI. Having active developed and supported serialization over the past 5 years with numerous commercial applications around the world, we have a significant body of knowledge to share with clients. With these key learnings from practical applications of Serialization and anti-counterfeiting technologies, we have positioned ourselves to support our clients as they start to truly develop their own global Serialization strategies.

"This latest investment is considerable, and features what we believe are truly industry-leading technologies. The spotlight is on the industry to meet the November deadline and PCI has directed an amazing amount of financial resource, technological expertise and manpower to help our clients be prepared."