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Automated Prescription Filling Offers Opportunity for Packaging Machine Builders

Automation opportunities are opening in the pharmaceutical industry through new trends in adherence packaging and blended central fill facilities.

Adherence packaging gaining popularity over the U.S.'s traditional countables is generating automation opportunity for OEMs.
Adherence packaging gaining popularity over the U.S.'s traditional countables is generating automation opportunity for OEMs.
PMMI Business Intelligence: 2023 State of the Industry

Most pharmaceutical industry sales for packaging machinery vendors involve non-prescription packaged medication, but there’s automation opportunity right behind the counter.

That’s according to PMMI Business Intelligence’s 2023 “State of the Industry” report. PMMI Business Intelligence researchers say U.S. companies are placing a greater emphasis on automating prescription filling.

Retail giants like Walgreens and CVS have both invested in automated solutions for prescription filling. Notably, Walgreens acquired iA, an automated dispensing solutions provider, in 2021.

Automating this process could represent a new customer base for packaging machinery providers. Two major pharma trends, the growth of adherence packaging in the U.S. and the increased presence of blended central fill facilities, bode well for these OEMs.

Growth of Adherence Packaging Coincides with New Prescription Filling Trends

The prescription pharmaceutical sector in the U.S. is undergoing a shift in how medicines are dispensed to customers.

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