WAYNE, NJ – Reed-Lane, a New Jerseybased contract packaging provider that serves leading RX, OTC, and generic drug manufacturers, has completed a dedicated Serialization Suite allowing the company to provide trackandtrace services down to the unit level. The new suite – ReedLane’s first for such purposes – debuts with the installation of an Optel Vision TrackSafe™ system. The initial installation of the line was completed in July 2014. Validation is projected to be completed by the first quarter of 2015, and pilots with company customers shortly thereafter.

The line’s configuration allows Reed Lane to serialize individual cartons; aggregate cartons to cases; aggregate cartons to bundles; aggregate bundles to cases; aggregate cases to pallets; or rework previously serialized items according to customer needs. The Optel TrackSafe line at ReedLane’s Serialization Suite comprises the following stations:

• A Carton Tracker Pharmaproof Station that incorporates a VideoJet Wolke M600 Dual Head Printer for applying serialized data directly to cartons, and an Optel HighResolution Commissioning Camera for cartonlevel serialization.
• A Bundle Aggregation Pharmaproof Station that aggregates serialized cartons within bundles utilizing two highresolution commissioning cameras from Optel Vision. Here, serialized labels are applied with a Domino MSeries Print & Apply Labeler and commissioned with an Optel High Resolution Camera.
• A Case Aggregation Pharmaproof Station where serialized cartons or bundles are aggregated within a case using an Optel Ultra High Resolution 15.8 MegaPixel Camera installed on a 3M Case Sealer. Serialized case labels are applied with a Domino MSeries Print & Apply Labeler and commissioned with an Optel High Resolution Camera.
• A Line Master / Pallet Aggregation Station that aggregates cases to pallets via a serialized pallet label printed from a Zebra ZM400 Printer and commissioned with a Datalogic Magellan 1100i Table Top Scanner. A Datalogic PowerScan M8500 Hand Held Scanner is available for commissioning and decommissioning items as needed.

“The new Serialization Suite provides ReedLane with a dedicated space to showcase its trackandtrace services – capabilities that are, understandably, getting higher and higher on the priorities lists of major pharmaceutical manufacturers,” said Patricia Elvin, President of Reed-Lane.

The new Serialization Suite is the latest in a slew of recent upgrades at ReedLane aimed at addressing developing customer needs, including the installation of its fifth bottling line, two integrated Uhlmann blister/carton lines, a high speed ampoule labeler and a secured property providing a 30% increase in warehousing space.

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About Reed-Lane

Reed-Lane is a privately held company specializing in pharmaceutical contract packaging. Headquartered at a 132,000squarefoot packaging facility in Wayne, New Jersey, with more than 30,000 sq ft of additional warehousing space in Parsippany, New Jersey, ReedLane has been creating innovative packaging solutions for leading RX, OTC, and generic drug companies since 1959. Today, ReedLane has four main specialties within the pharmaceutical contract packaging industry: blister packaging, bottling, pouching and convenience vial filling as well as extensive secondary capabilities in labeling, cartoning and card sealing.

As a privately held company, Reed-Lane has cultivated the ability to be more flexible than many of its publicly traded competitors. This flexibility has made it possible for the company to serve the complex and increasing packaging needs of its pharmaceutical customers with great speed and agility. Quality assurance remains paramount at ReedLane, where all staff maintain an exemplary standard of cGMP and FDA compliance.

For more information, call (877) 2901090 or visit www.ReedLane.com