An increasing number of products are being shipped in smaller volumes as pharmaceutical companies see the benefits of highly potent and highly targeted drugs. Effective fill-finish technologies are essential for producing these drugs, alongside containers and closures, but could the technologies be further improved if vendors work together? Vanrx Pharmasystems, which supplies a variety of aseptic robotic filling systems, has brought a number of vendors together to form the Matrix Alliance. Although naturally competitors, the vendors will collaborate to develop aseptic solutions, consisting of containers, stoppers, caps and nests that work together effectively with new filling machinery. To expand our knowledge of the Matrix, we asked Greg Speakman from Vanrx Pharmasystems – one of the founders of the Matrix Alliance – to feed us the red pill.
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