Sharp is pleased to welcome Rick Mueller to the Project Management Team. Please click here to read more.

Sharp is please to welcome Thomas Paul to the Clinical Team. Please click here to read more.

WOBURN, MA and ALLENTOWN, PA, November 4, 2010 — TraceLink, Inc., the provider of the World’s 1^st Industry-Wide Supply Collaboration Network, and Sharp Corporation,world class provider of healthcare contract packaging, design, and engineering services, today announced that Sharp has joined the TraceLink Network. By integrating Sharp’s packaging and serialization services with TraceLink’s collaborative supply network, Sharp’s 80+ pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and OTC customers will gain improved performance, visibility and coordination throughout contract packaging and finished goods distribution.

Please see the attachment for an announcement from Jeff Benedict.  Click here for the announcement.

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Rick Seibert, VP of New Business Development, comments on Life Science Leaders news article.  www.lifescienceleader.com/index.php 

Today’s pharmaceutical packaging landscape is complex, with new requirements, products, and market demands surfacing continuously. Although manufacturers are meeting these challenges every day, they regularly tu to contract packagers to handle particular situations, such as specialized packaging, overflow, and volume. As they look to contract packagers, some manufacturers’ products also require serialization to address regulations or to protect high value products. Because contract packagers manage these responsibilities for numerous products per line, they confront the toughest vision inspection, line management, and serialization in the pharmaceutical industry.  Click here for the whole story.

As serialization requirements become more of a reality, Sharp has prepared for this new Pharmaceutical requirement.

Sharp will be hosting the IOPP Fall meeting at their corporate facility in September. We are excited to have these packaging professionals on site to share their ideas and professional experience. For more information about the Institute of Packaging Professionals, visit their website: www.iopp.org

Stora Enso has signed the first Pharma DDS packaging solution license agreements in the US and in Europe. Sharp Corporation and Stora Enso will partner in the contract packaging of pharmaceutical products into Pharma DDS cartons. Simultaneously an agreement has been reached with Cadmus Whitehall Group and with rlc packaging group to produce printed and converted components of Pharma DDS carton.

Sharp Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of Laura Zurlinden to the Account Executive team. Laura comes to Sharp with over 10 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry. She will be supporting sales efforts on the West Coast. Laura is also a Michigan State graduate with a Bachelor's of Science in Packaging.