MRP Solutions
MRP Solutions: Making Pharma Packaging Smarter, Safer, and Sustainable

The pharmaceutical industry constantly evolves to create remedies for diseases and health challenges. Preserving the efficacy of these life-changing medical advances through packaging ensures maximum benefit for end-users.

There has been a significant increase in regulations for product packaging and drug efficacy to ensure that customers benefit from the health claims made by pharmaceutical products. This compels pharmaceutical manufacturers to carefully choose packaging solutions that adhere to these regulations and meet their product’s unique requirements.

MRP Solutions, a premier packaging manufacturing company, is committed to preserve the integrity of clients’ products while enhancing their appeal, user-friendliness, and efficiency, setting them apart from their competitors. It is a provider of high-quality, injection-molded plastic closures, jars, and packaging components trusted by pharmaceutical and nutraceutical manufacturers and fillers. The firm combines its extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to accurately identify client needs and produce compliant and reliable packaging solutions. This accelerates the product’s speed to market, helping clients’ businesses capitalize on every market opportunity.

“We prioritize understanding the product’s specifications, client goals, and the evolving packaging regulations before crafting the best-suited packaging solutions,” says Jim Fitzgerald, President & CEO at MRP Solutions.

A Product Portfolio Reflecting Market Trends

MRP Solutions has gained a bird’s eye view of the packaging industry and its market trends through its 35 years of child-resistant closure expertise and over four decades of dispensing closure experience. It collaborates with the world’s leading material suppliers to provide a wide range of closure styles and sizes as well as functional liners including vented liners, thereby meeting clients’ packaging requirements. This comprehensive product portfolio differentiates the company from competitors.

MRP Solutions’ child-resistant closures range is available in standard sizes, from 20mm to 89mm, and comes with different outer designs like worded instructions, pictograms, and EZ-Safe (featuring senior-friendly grip features). The firm also offers a robust line of dispensing closures specially designed for vitamins and supplements offering the dosing ease that consumers prefer. In fact, the company pioneered the use of hinged dispensing closures like the NutraGen II^® to improve customer convenience.

Combined with continuous thread closure options in sizes from 18mm to 120mm that have smooth or ribbed walls and even EZ-Grip for ease of use by seniors, MRP’s packaging options are trusted and preferred by pharmaceutical and nutraceutical brands and consumers alike.

For brands that want to stand out on the shelf, the company has a Custom Light program, which enables it to provide personalized outer closures that have a premium, branded look at extremely competitive prices. This becomes extremely beneficial when clients need a logo or style for any closures that are required to launch a new brand or campaign or differentiate from competitors.

We Understand Our Customers’ Goals And Consider The Evolving Packaging Regulations To Craft Packaging Solutions, Helping Clients Excel In The Evolving Pharmaceutical Packaging Environment

To complete the package, MRP Solutions manufactures jars in different sizes and configurations, including double-walled and thick-walled jars suitable for pharmaceutical products. Its patented CR Jars are specifically designed to function with child-resistant closures. “Our packaging solutions also address clients’ lining issues during filling, along with managing logistics, inventory, quality assurance, and comprehensive customer care. Elevating the package’s success is our commitment,” says Dawn Nowicki, vice president of marketing and ESG at MRP Solutions.

Meeting Clients’ True Needs through Innovative Packages and Processes

MRP Solutions’ ability to go the extra mile to meet client needs is exemplified by an instance where it partnered with a company that packaged their products using a custom closure previously manufactured in China. The closure needed to be manually assembled, lined, and applied before being sealed using induction sealing at the filling line. However, given the brand’s growth and the difficulties of manual labor in China, they sought a more efficient and cost-effective solution.

The firm addressed this issue by making changes to the client’s closure design, enabling complete automation in manufacturing and capping/induction sealing at the client’s filler. It also made the closure lighter to minimize the use of virgin plastic. MRP Solutions currently provides the client with top-notch manufacturing facilities and will continue to expand alongside them as their business expands.

“We focus on what’s important to the client. Our teams engage with them on a personal level and understand their true requirements.

This enables them to create the right functional package that looks great on the shelf and meets all consumer needs while running most efficiently on the manufacturer’s filling lines,” notes Leo Brozell, vice president of product innovation at MRP Solutions.

MRP Solutions’ team of experts has extensive technical experience in product development, mold design and fabrication, injection molding, and processing, enabling them to support every product development stage from conceptualization to commercialization. They utilize a robust stage gate process and interdepartmental knowledge in each of these stages to ensure optimum end-user satisfaction for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical clients.

The firm has specialized quality check processes and safety measures to guarantee the product’s safety. It tracks every potential risk that can jeopardize the efficiency of its solutions and ensures they are addressed accordingly. Simultaneously, MRP Solutions’ focus on its employees’ safety and well-being, elevating the workforce morale and motivating them to create the best solutions to supporting client’s packaging from start to finish.

Being Future-Ready

The company’s extensive market knowledge and experience in design and manufacturing, along with substantial facility expansion over the past few years has enabled it to anticipate potential market trends. It is always tracking developments in the packaging sector, economic changes, customer and consumer feedback, and competitors’ actions on a cross-functional basis. This helps it identify gaps in its product lines and services, unaddressed market needs, and opportunities for growth, followed by in-depth research and development to innovate accordingly.

For example, as pharmaceutical industry prioritizes sustainability in packaging and aims to reduce plastic consumption, the company is actively exploring alternative packaging options that address the environmental sustainability goals. It is minimizing the use of virgin resin and is engaged in on-going research and evaluation for further improvements to deliver more eco-friendly solutions.

These efforts position it as an invaluable development partner to clients, delivering purpose-driven solutions while trying to achieve new ESG goals in a quality-centric market.