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74 June 2014 Tablets & Capsules Solid Dosage SourceBook Praxis is an FDA compliant solutions driven contract packaging company specializing in secondary packaging for the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, food and nutritional industries as well as primary bottling for oral solid dosage form pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. Located in Grand Rapids, MI and Columbus, OH, our mission is to provide innovative packaging solutions while exceeding customer expectations, managing critical deadlines and upholding regulatory quality standards. High-Speed Bottling Line Designed to work flexibly with secondary packaging capability, our high-speed bottling line supports compliant, efficient filling and packaging of a multitude of SKUs, as well as high volume projects. Change parts are available for a wide array of bottles sizes, including both round and square bottles, ranging from 30cc for lower-dosing Rx products to 250cc or larger for OTC's, nutraceuticals or larger retail counts, using screw, snap or child resistant closures. Line Capacity Snapshot Currently we run a 250 count bottle and can produce almost 400,000 finished bottles per week on a 3 x 5 production schedule. Bulk to Finished Goods Filling on the primary side of the line can be independent of secondary labeling operations. Bottles destined for label application are checked by multiple cameras to ensure quality of label content, placement and orientation. Upstream primary line performance is not impacted by downstream labeling starts and stops for label changes, increasing equipment uptime. Serialization Our line can be fitted with additional vision, coding and information technology upgrades for compliance with global unit-level serialization as well as the California ePedigree law, providing a solution to companies facing the large investment hurdle of implementing serialization. Corporate Description Technologies Praxis Packaging Solutions Inventoried Brite Stock Bottles destined for brite stock are coded for identification with a portable Videojet UV printer, before conveyance off the line to storage. The warehouse-stocked unlabeled bottles are pulled into the labeling operation as needed in response to fluctuating demand across SKUs with different retail labels or different country labels In the packaging-to-demand scenario, Praxis can respond more quickly to demand variations from seasonal OTCs or new product launches by providing quicker turnaround times with orders filled more closely to the order date. Praxis high-speed bottling line equipped with a 25-wheel Aylward digital counter filler Inside the clean room Sourcebook_PBE-CCR 6/10/14 1:34 PM Page 74