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Tablets & Capsules October 2016 11 I tech transfer Tips for transferring legacy products and processes Anthony Grenier The many mergers and acquisitions of the last 5 years often involved moving legacy products from sites where they were manufactured for decades. Perhaps they were even developed there. Here are some tips on making it a smooth transition. t's always a little heart-breaking to learn that a manu- facturing facility will shut down because the people run- ning it couldn't achieve compliance or because a Big Pharma company is "rationalizing" its manufacturing net- work. In many such cases, the products must be trans- ferred to a new site, and the destination could be another plant the company owns, a different company's manufac- turing site, or a plant run by a contract manufacturing organization.