US Packaging Site Expands to Accommodate PCI’s Business Growth
Packaging Coordinators, Inc. (PCI) has completed the planned expansion of its packaging facilities in Rockford, Illinois. The Rockford site is one of three locations in the US and the facilities expansion was designed to accommodate continued business development in its contract packaging services.
PCI converted underutilised space to further support its expanding packaging operations, adding 1,858 m2 for secondary and tertiary packaging. The additional production capacity will enable continued growth in operations such as cartoning, overwrapping, heat seal carding and compliance prompting packaging as well as supporting packaging for biotech delivery forms such as secondary packaging for injectable vials, syringes, devices and transdermal products. The packaging operations support both commercial operations as well as large-scale clinical studies.
In addition to packaging of commercial medicines, PCI provides clinical packaging services for investigational medicines at the Rockford location, supported by on-site Storage and Distribution services, facilitating global logistics for clinical studies. In December 2013, PCI announced the groundbreaking of a new 8,640 m2 Storage and Distribution site for investigational medicines, currently forecast to be in operation in August of this year. The clinical services expansion complements investments in PCI’s UK operations, most recently construction of a Storage and Distribution facility near Cardiff, Wales.
“The facilities expansion we have undertaken in Rockford is the latest in a series of investments we have made to enable continued growth and at the same time continue to provide our customers the extraordinary service they have come to expect from PCI,” stated Bill Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer at PCI. “We are committed to providing an unparalleled customer experience with our clinical and commercial services and those services require world-class facilities.”
Packaging Coordinators Inc., www.pciservices.com.