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What is pharmaceutical contract packaging and how is Sharp a reliable packaging partner for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries?
Pharmaceutical packaging can be defined as a set of operations including filling, sealing, packaging, and labeling of semi-finished or finished products. Pharma packaging is an economical means to present, preserve, identify, provide information, maintain product integrity, and ensure stability. It also plays a crucial role in the transportation of sensitive and strictly controlled products.
Pharmaceutical contract packaging refers to packaging that is executed and supplied by a licensed third-party service provider that comprises both initial packaging and repackaging. These contract packaging service providers may offer clinical and commercial packaging solutions for pharmaceutical products.
Pharmaceutical contract packaging organizations are well-equipped to offer a comprehensive range of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging solutions. Primary packaging surrounds the pharmaceutical formulation and includes bottles, blisterings, pouches, sachets, tubes, auto-injector pens, etc. Whereas secondary packaging offers further external protection and includes artwork design, labeling for parenteral and injectables, child-resistant and compliance prompting packaging, etc. Additionally, tertiary packaging is used during transportation to absorb physical impacts, moisture, and dust and includes cardboard boxes, stretch wraps, shrink films, and wooden and plastic pallets.
Sharp is a leading contract packaging organizations that offer pharmaceutical packaging services among others. It has more than 70 years of experience in pharmaceutical clinical packaging, clinical trial supply services, and small-scale sterile manufacturing. Sharp has more than 2,000 employees who work in its state-of-the-art GMP facilities in the US, UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Sharp, offers contract manufacturing and packaging services and support from phase I clinical trial supplies to commercial launch and lifecycle management to its pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners across the world. It has deep expertise in clinical trial packaging and labeling along with a skilled global design team that utilizes cutting-edge software and technology ensuring patient-friendly and differentiated packaging for drug products.
Apart from this, Sharp is also a reliable partner for sourcing packaging material and offers integrated pharmaceutical packaging and labeling services along with over-encapsulation of oral solids and the production of placebo capsules for study blinding.
Sharp is a contract packaging organization that offers commercial packaging services including contract blister packaging services, bottle packaging, sachet packaging, injectable packaging, and other solid dose packaging solutions. Additionally, it offers clinical packaging and labeling solutions such as clinical trial material packaging, clinical trial packaging and labeling, clinical trial logistics and packaging, and clinical trial supply services, or clinical supplies.
Its clinical and commercial packaging services are outlined below:
Clinical Packaging Solutions
Sharps clinical packaging solutions encompass primary packaging and labeling and secondary packaging. Its pharmaceutical primary packaging offers reliable clinical packaging services, clinical supply chain services, primary packaging solutions, and cold-chain secondary packaging and labeling at 2-8°C, -20°C, and even at -70°C. Sharp also provides reliable clinical pharma packaging services and labeling, secondary packaging solutions, pharmaceutical clinical packaging and labeling solutions along with expertise and capabilities in handling cold-chain pharmaceutical labeling and packaging from 2-8°C to -70°C.
Commercial Packaging Solutions
For more than 65 years, Sharp has been providing a full range of commercial primary and secondary packaging solutions, blister packaging, and contract manufacturing and packaging services for pharmaceutical oral solid dosage forms. It offers contract blister packaging services and bottle packaging for pharmaceutical drug products.
Apart from this Sharp provides pharma packaging contract services for small and large-volume batch sizes of injectables. It offers pharmaceutical packaging services for cold chain storage, packaging in temperature- and light-controlled environments, serialization, and customized distribution. Additionally, Sharp is involved in the pharma packaging of oral solids, liquids, and semi-solids.
Moreover, Sharp is a premier commercial packaging service provider for high-value, low-volume gene therapy. It also offers pharmaceutical packaging services, expertise, and powerful technology that facilitates product serialization and aggregation.
Therefore, Sharp’s pharma packaging contract services, spanning from clinical supplies to commercial include pharma clinical trial material manufacturing, clinical primary packaging services, clinical secondary packaging solutions, clinical trial packaging and labeling, and clinical trial logistics and packaging.
Furthermore, Sharp’s contract manufacturing and packaging services encompass commercial pharma packaging solutions and labeling and supply services. Consequently, all the aforementioned offerings position Sharp as a one-stop-shop contract pharmaceutical packaging service provider for clinical and commercial scales.
How does Sharp address challenges related to clinical labeling and secondary packaging?
Sharp has over 70 years of experience and is a pioneer in clinical trial supply services and pharmaceutical packaging. Dedicated to the right-first-time principle, Sharp is a reliable partner for secondary packaging and clinical pharmaceutical labeling and packaging.
It offers a wide range of quick, scalable clinical trial packaging services and labeling and packaging solutions in all formats, with capabilities spanning the complete lifespan of investigational medicinal products (IMPs).
Moreover, Sharp can also address challenges related to packaging and labeling and offers pharmaceutical packaging and labeling services and clinical packaging and labeling services to its clients. Additionally, its clinical packaging and labeling solutions also include in-house auxiliary variable data printing outsourced booklet labels; client-supplied randomization fully supported; and annex 13 compliant and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant PRISYM software for label design.
Sharp's pharmaceutical packaging and labeling services include single and multi-panel labels and booklets; 2D barcoding capabilities, randomized and open; 128 barcoding. It also offers; regulatory and translation services; sequentially numbered, variable text; code break, and randomized generation among other clinical packaging and labeling solutions.
Sharp is a leader in providing pharmaceutical clinical packaging, contract packaging services, and labeling and supply services in compliance with strict regulatory guidelines. It has special pharma packaging and labeling expertise and capabilities for packaging drug products.
Sharp addresses various challenges related to pharma packaging and labeling which includes:
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Sharp can provide cold-chain pharmaceutical labeling and packaging from 2-8°C to -70°C for drug products that need low temperatures for their transportation and storage.
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Sharp can support the secondary packaging for most complex drug candidates, such as controlled substance packaging (DEA schedule I-V), and has the capabilities to scale up to commercial supplies.
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Its design and logistics staff can also assist with the challenges of blinding products and syringes for clinical trial services. Sharp does this by providing annex 13 compliant and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant PRISYM software for label design, client-supplied randomization fully supported, and in-house auxiliary variable data printing outsourced booklet labels.
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With issues related to timely delivery and efficient labeling, Sharp provides pharmaceutical labeling and packaging solutions by using Scan assembly technology and Interactive Response Technologies (IRT), storage, and distribution.
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To overcome the label readability issues for clients worldwide, Sharp designs and prints multilingual clinical labels.
Therefore, Sharp acts as a one-stop-shop packaging organization that provides pharmaceutical contract packaging services, clinical primary packaging services, primary and secondary clinical packaging, and labeling and supply services to its clients worldwide.
What range of packaging design and kitting services does Sharp offer?
Sharp is a market leader in the design and delivery of primary and secondary packaging. Due to its structural, graphic, and design engineers as well as its understanding of supply chain and regulatory issues, Sharp excels in pharmaceutical packaging.
Sharp has years of experience in creating cutting-edge pharma packaging solutions. It is skilled in brand creation, modifying current artwork, marketing research, FDA filing standards, 3D rendering, senior, child-friendly, or child-resistant design, and labeling and supply services. Sharp's global design team provides the creativity and accuracy required to design highly functional and compliant primary and secondary commercial and clinical pharma packaging services.
Sharp offers a wide range of design services and pharmaceutical packaging solutions using the latest tools and technologies to guarantee premium and user-friendly product packaging. Additionally, it provides structural and graphic design development for quick launch and regular upgrades for commercial artwork.
Sharp’s wide range of packaging design services for pharmaceutical products includes:
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Artwork Design Services: Sharp can provide pharma packaging contract services including customized artwork as per specific markets from initial mock-ups to product registration.
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Packaging Samples: Sharp’s contract pharmaceutical packaging services can create production-quality models for use in marketing presentations, human factor research, and photography that closely match the commercial package.
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Tray Design: Sharp precisely assesses product components to create a tray design that best suits the drug.
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3D Printing: Sharp can rapidly confirm that all product components fit by using its technology to create 3D printed prototypes of trays and other packaging component designs.
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Shipper and Pallet Design: The structural designers at Sharp develop pallet layouts and shippers based on finished items to guarantee drug safety during distribution and storage.
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CR/SF Compliant Design and Testing: Sharp offers pharmaceutical contract packaging services and can determine the level of toxicity in child-friendly packaging.
Various structural design services offered by Sharp include end-user interactions and compliance; child-resistant, senior-friendly (CR/SF) design; tamper evident features; multiple-component kitting requirements; and sustainable or specified materials.
Additionally, Sharp’s graphic design capabilities include serialization artwork; brand identity; complete package graphics; product and package illustrations; and late-stage customization.
Sharp’s broad range of tailored kitting options for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology calls for the packaging of multiple components into a single, self-contained unit. The design team at Sharp offers commercial packaging solutions and helps clients create a kit that best meets the end-user needs and product specifications. Its kitting services include labeling, tray packing, and boxing with comprehensive verification inspection to ensure the highest level of quality.
How does Sharp manage the packaging of sterile formulations to ensure product integrity?
Sharp has almost seven decades of packaging experience and it provides pharmaceutical packaging solutions for sterile and non-sterile formulations while maintaining the integrity and quality of products. It offers contract pharmaceutical packaging services and package design services from its US and EU facilities for injectables containing both small and large-volume batch sizes.
For product launch and sample programs, its international design team works with clients to provide pharma packaging solutions and determine the optimal vial, prefilled syringe, and autoinjector packaging options.
Through its partnership with Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing (BSM), Sharp also offers small-scale isolator-based sterile fill-finish options. It specializes in pharmaceutical clinical packaging and commercial packaging in cold chain storage, packaging in temperature and light-controlled environments, and specialty distribution for injectable drug products. It also supports multi-country launches from the US and EU.
Sharp has experience in parenteral and injectable format labeling and packaging such as vials, autoinjectors, syringes, and pens. Its specialized commercial and clinical services for injectables and parenterals include primary and secondary labeling of vials, IV bags, pre-filled syringes, and IV bottles in ambient, cold and ultra-cold environments; custom label generation; kitting; serialization and aggregation; and storage and distribution.
Some of Sharp’s sterile packaging capabilities for injectable drug products include:
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Vial Labeling and Packaging: Sharp has decades of packaging experience and offers pharmaceutical packaging and labeling services for vials. Its contract packaging services include an automated visual inspection of labeling, tray and carton packing, cartoning of single and multipacks, tamper-evident solutions, cold-chain storage (2-8°C), and ultra-low temperature freezer banks (-20°C/-70°C). In addition to these services, Sharp provides package design; kitting; and segregated suites to handle highly potent APIs (HPAPI), cytotoxins, hormones; serialization and aggregation; and specialty distribution.
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Autoinjector and Pen Assembly, Labeling, and Packaging: Sharp excels in managing the complexities related to autoinjector or pen device labeling and packaging from its US and EU facilities. Moreover, its YpsoMate autoinjector device delivers a high level of technical accuracy required for the assembly of prefilled syringes into YpsoMate autoinjectors. Sharp’s experts also offer clinical trial packaging services and specialize in managing the challenges related to clinical trial logistics and packaging of biological formulations.
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Pre-Filled Syringe Assembly, Labeling, and Packaging: Sharp is a leader in the assembly, labeling, and packaging of pre-filled syringes and safety devices. It provides customized commercial and clinical pharma packaging services for both small and large-volume batch sizes for injectables.
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Small Scale Sterile Fill-Finish: Sharp partners with Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing (BSM) and offers high-quality, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution solutions for flexible fillers, BSM fills vials, cartridges, syringes, and lyophilization.
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Gene Therapy Clinical and Commercial Packaging: Sharp has over 70 years of experience in packaging complex pharmaceuticals such as low-volume, high-value gene therapies. Sharp is also engineered to provide demand-led supply commercial and clinical services including batch sizes as small as 1 vial, or packaging, labeling, and distribution in cold, ultra-cold, or cryogenic conditions.
Sharp also has dedicated facilities in Bethlehem, PA, US, Heerenveen, and the Netherlands for handling gene therapies. These facilities are equipped with HEPA air handling systems; controlled temperature; humidity and dew point; full-sized -80°C freezer banks in dedicated production suites; constant monitoring of time-out-of-refrigeration, and specific freeze-thaw cycles. These facilities help in providing clinical trial packaging services and clinical secondary packaging solutions along with commercial packaging of sterile formulations.
What range of pharmaceutical packaging solutions does Sharp offer for solid and liquid drug products?
With a history spanning more than 70 years, Sharp is a pioneer in providing pharmaceutical packaging services that include primary and secondary packaging of solid, liquid, and semi-solid drug products for clinical and commercial scales from its state-of-the-art facilities.
Sharp offers innovative and economical clinical packaging services for investigational medicinal products (IMP). It also supports the packaging of various dosage forms including bottling of solid formulations, and thermo and cold forming blister packaging for oral solids.
Sharp also supports the packaging of powder and OSDs in sachets and pouches, oral and transdermal films in strips, and injectables in vials, syringes, and cartridges. Moreover, it is also involved in the packaging of semi-solids such as cream and ointment in tubes.
Some of Sharp’s pharmaceutical packaging solutions for solid and liquid drug products are mentioned below:
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Bottle Packaging for Solids and Semi-solids: Sharp provides pharma packaging contract services for bottle packaging that include component sourcing, carton printing and in-line cartoning or bundling, comprehensive onsite engineering and validation support, serialization and aggregation, and strict quality control for packaged drugs. Sharp also offers high-quality nitrogen flush bottles and bottle packaging for moisture and oxygen-sensitive drugs.
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Blister Packaging for Oral Solids: Sharp provides various blister packaging solutions including thermoform and cold form blisters, patient packs, hospital unit dose packs, wallet cards, child-resistant lidding, sustainable foil and blister materials, and multiple products per blister. Apart from this, Sharp’s contract blister packaging services also involve multi-color foil printing, in-house tooling design and fabrication, polymer laminates (Aclar, PVC/PVDC, etc.) heat-seal coating resins, and automated visual inspection.
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Pouches and Sachets for Solids and Transdermal Patches (Primary and Secondary Packaging Services): Sharp has expertise in pouch and sachet packaging filled with solid dose, powder, thin film, and transdermal patch drug products. Sharp’s solid dose packaging solutions offer considerable pouch and sachet packaging backed by quality operations and project management knowledge. Sharp is home to a sizable assemblage of form, fill, and seal technologies. Based on decades of practical expertise, Sharp uses a wide range of innovative film structure materials, such as coated papers, high-barrier foils, and polymer laminates, and offers pharma packaging contract services. It also can support the production of multiple dosage forms for pharmaceutical products.
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Oral Thin Film and Transdermal Patches: Sharp provides primary and secondary packaging services for oral thin films and transdermal patches. Sharp specializes in die-cutting and pouching sublingual and oral dissolvable films, and transdermal drug delivery systems, and offers specialized pharmaceutical packaging services through quality procedures. It utilizes the most up-to-date solid dose packaging solutions and processes to safely package and safeguard specialty drug products.
Sharp’s oral thin film and transdermal patch capabilities include highly accurate dosing by die-cutting laminated products to any size and shape; in-line printing of drug info, bar codes, lot number, expiration date, serialization with optical character verification (OCV); etc.
Therefore, Sharp is a pharmaceutical contract packaging organization that offers clinical services, cold chain packaging, clinical packaging and labeling, and commercial packaging. Its pharmaceutical contract packaging service also encompasses primary and secondary clinical and commercial packaging.
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