Packaging is defined as
the collection of different components which surround the pharmaceutical
product from the time of production until its use. Pharma packaging products is
a broad, encompassing, and multi-faceted task. At Bilcare Packaging is
responsible for providing life-saving drugs, medical devices, medical
treatments, and new products like medical nutritionals in every imaginable
dosage form to deliver every type of supplement, poultice, liquid, solid,
powder, suspension, or drop to people the world over. It is transparent to the
end user when done well and is open to criticism from all quarters when done
poorly.
Distribution of products
is now more global than ever. Mass customization of packaging to permit its use
in multiple markets is a topic that needs exposition and discussion.
Environmental issues, including sustainability, will always be a subjective
dimension to any packaging design. Pharma Packaging is an emerging science, an
emerging engineering discipline, and a success contributor to pharmaceutical
industries.
Packaging can reside, or
report through research and development (R and D), engineering, operations,
purchasing, marketing, or the general administrative department of a company.
For the majority of products produced in Bilcare it is probably the single
largest aggregate purchase made by a company of materials critical to the
protection, distribution, and sale of the product.
