The consolidation of the contract packaging industry continues at high speed as companies look to broaden their scope and economies of scale. Four contract packaging and repackaging companies in the pharmaceutical industry have joined forces to create a new, single-source company called Aphena Pharma Solutions. The new company will be based in Cookeville, TN.
Aphena is a new corporation based on a strategic alliance between Celeste Contract Packaging, PrePak Systems, TestPak, and Integrated Pharmaceutical Packaging. All are long-term companies that specialize in contract packaging of pharmaceutical products and personal care packaging, repackaging, and manufacturing.
“We are excited to announce our new parent company, Aphena Pharma Solutions,” says Renard Jackson, president and CEO of the new company. “Through each company’s individual efforts, we’ve offered our clients the best services and products. Now, we are poised to offer more products and even better service with an extreme level of single-source efficiency.”
Celeste Contract Packaging is based in Easton, MD, and will become the new liquid and topical division of Aphena Pharma Solutions. The Easton, MD, facility specializes in manufacturing and contract packaging of liquid and topical products in flexible packets, bottles, blisters, and tubes.
PrePak Systems, Cookeville, TN; TestPak, Whippany, NJ; and Integrated Pharmaceutical Packaging, Glasgow, KY; will become the solid-dose division of Aphena Pharma Solutions. The division will offer turnkey contract packaging and repackaging services for the pharmaceutical, OTC, nutraceutical, animal health, and consumer product markets.
The division’s four locations will offer an array of packaging options, such as low- and high-volume bottle filling, blister packaging (cold and thermoforming), custom pouching, compliance packaging, unit-dosing and unit-of-dose packaging, kitting, and secondary packaging for solid-dose products.
