Catalent Pharma Solutions has entered a joint marketing and collaboration agreement with One World Design and Manufacturing Group to design and commercialise improved packaging for pharmaceuticals.
Catalent, a provider of outsourced clinical and commercial packaging services headquartered in New Jersey, US, and One World based in Warren, New Jersey will together market One World's NextBottle unit-dose compliance bottle to pharmaceutical manufacturers.
One World will exclusively produce the injection-moulded device, with Catalent providing filling and packaging services. The two companies will also collaborate on developing new packaging solutions, with a particular focus on improving patient compliance.
Designed to improve patient compliance, the NextBottle has a dial mechanism that dispenses one pill at a time, and most importantly, automatically provides patients with a visual reminder of the "last day" that a pill was taken. This serves to minimise unintentional non-compliance, forgetfulness and confusion that many patients experience.
Matt Coe, One World's coo, said 'Patient non-compliance is a huge issue in the pharmaceutical industry. When we designed the NextBottle, we wanted to make sure that we designed a package that would improve compliance, have a familiar look and feel, and be able to be filled very easily. We are excited to collaborate with Catalent and leverage their extensive contract packaging capabilities in order to make the NextBottle a success.'