Pharma Packaging

Simplist^® Fentanyl ready-to-administer prefilled syringes come in Fresenius Kabi’s proprietary MicroVault^® packaging system that also supports secure dispensing of narcotics and reduces the opportunity for diversion. Because the syringes require no assembly, they streamline point-of-care preparation. The presentation reduces the potential for product waste and makes it easier for health care professionals to dispense the prescribed dose.

Fresenius Kabi is a leader in injectable medicines with a growing U.S. portfolio of prefilled syringes.

PLUSS Advanced Technologies (PLUSS), a Delhi based company, in collaboration with Apollo Supply Chain, part of the Apollo International Group, has set up a 20,000 sqft facility in Hyderabad, for packaging boxes for temperature sensitive vaccines, pharmaceuticals and biologics.

The boxes maintain inside temperature without electricity at desired levels for over 4 days, using ‘phase change materials’ technology. The facility has the capacity to condition boxes for transporting the equivalent of 3 to 5 million vaccine doses per month and will cater to the various vaccine and pharma manufacturers in and around Hyderabad.

Nerlynx is a kinase inhibitor indicated as a single agent for the extended adjuvant treatment of adults with early-stage human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer, to follow adjuvant trastuzumab based therapy. It is also indicated in combination with capecitabine for the treatment of adults with advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have received 2 or more prior anti-HER2 based regimens in the metastatic setting.