Puerto Rico’s pharmaceutical plants are looking for more efficient secondary and tertiary packaging systems.

At Interphex Puerto Rico, an alliance of PMMI member companies Goodman Packaging Equipment, Packaging Machinery International and Z Automation offered a new solution and a seminar hosted by systems integrator Moriah Engineering Solutions and PMMI supplier members Schneider Electric and ELAU, Schneider’s packaging automation specialists.

The machinery suppliers described a Packaging End-of-Line Solution (PELS) building on ELAU’s PacDrive automation system as a common control platform providing a highly integrated engineering suite with which to integrate cartoners, case packers, wrappers, palletizers and ancillary equipment such as labelers, vision and printing systems.

Engineering managers from Baxter, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, IPR Pharmaceutical, Merck, Pfizer and Procter & Gamble participated.

They heard not only how the PELS alliance is taking responsibility for engineering and supporting pharmaceutical packaging lines, but how the initiative aligns with PMMI’s value-added business strategy.

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