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Article: Physicians' samples prescribe blisters: a new packaging line at Sanofi-Aventis' St. Louis plant produces two-unit blister-packs of Ambien supplied to physicians to hand out as samples.(pharmaceutical packs)
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- Packaging Digest
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Sanofi-Aventis is the world's third-largest pharmaceutical company, with facilities in more than 100 countries. Its plant in St. Louis is strictly a packaging operation that runs products brought in from other Sanofi operations as well as from third parties. The newest line, installed in 2004, produces physicians' samples packaged in blister-packs. During PD's visit, the line was running blister-packs containing two 6.25-mg tablets of Sanofi's new extended-release AmbienCR[R].
The operation starts with a Model UPS4-MT intermittent-motion blister-manufacturing machine from Uhlmann Packaging Systems (www.uhlmannusa.com). "We have other Uhlmann equipment here in the ...