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Article: Plastic trays cut costs, raise performance for Pharmacia & Upjohn.
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- Food & Drug Packaging
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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In a nutshell
Goal: Replace only metal handling trays
How: Adopt custom-designed molded plastic trays
Result: One-fifth the cost, plus superior handling characteristics
Even more than for most companies, external forces today drive pharmaceutical processors to minimize costs while maximizing production efficiency. To be successful, manufacturers must think "outside the box" to satisfy tough cost demands while maintaining high product standards.
Pharmacia & Upjohn, for instance, had always relied on custom-designed, hand-made Teflon-coated metal trays to store in-process parenteral products at its Kalamazoo, Mich., processing ...