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Contract packager builds blister packaging business

New machinery adds to Reed-Lane’s flexibility, allowing it to work within existing package platforms or collaborate with customers and suppliers to design custom product-specific tooling or packaging features.

New machinery adds to Reed-Lane’s flexibility, allowing it to work within existing package platforms or collaborate with customers and suppliers to design custom product-specific tooling or packaging features.
New machinery adds to Reed-Lane’s flexibility, allowing it to work within existing package platforms or collaborate with customers and suppliers to design custom product-specific tooling or packaging features.

Reed-Lane, a New Jersey-based contract packaging provider serving leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, has experienced an uptick in interest in its blister packaging services. The spike in inquiries followed the company’s double-digit blister packaging capacity growth, spurred by its recent purchase of an additional UPS 4 Blister Machine from Uhlmann Packaging Systems.

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