About Third Party Manufacturing & Contract Manufacturing Facilities

A contract manufacturing organizations (CMO) or private label manufacturing is an organization that serves the pharmaceutical industry and provides customers with a wide range of services, from drug development to manufacturing. Outsourcing management to a CMO allows pharmaceutical clients to expand their technical resources without overhead.

According to trade theory, third-party manufacturing is a manufacturing process for third-party drugs and products. In this process, an agreement is signed between the company and the manufacturing company, and the manufacturing company manufactures the products according to the contract.

This is very important; in third party manufacturing there is no time limit for delivery of goods, while in contract manufacturing there is a time limit for delivery. Most of the small companies work on the basis of third-party manufacturing, while the medium and large companies work on the basis of contract manufacturing.

In our TPM, the packaging material is the outer covering in which the dosage form is packaged. It can be made of paper, plastic, rubber, tin or any other form. Packaging materials include outside cartoon, monkey cartoon, aluminum foil, label, chimney, etc. Vials, ampoules, protein powder cans, and PET bottles are generally not considered packaging materials, but they are also part of packaging materials. It is considered part of the product. The manufacturer will give you the rates that include bottles, vials, etc. even if you request the rates without packing material. In the pharmaceutical industry, there is a standard that must be printed as packaging material. It is very important to keep this in mind.

Types of Packing Material:

• Box
• Foil
• Label
• Lami Tube
• Inner/mono ( if applicable)
• Large or small cartoons (plastic, wood, aluminum and others)

It Depends Upon Company As Well As Product Section , Its Varies Company To Company , Party Can Negotiate With Manufacturing Company .

Query:

Requesting your help regarding drug brand name registration I run a proprietorship company in Bangalore pcd business already but want to enter contract manufacturing. Companies are demanding brand Name Affidavits. I just want to clarify that

Response:

Companies demand brand name Affidavit for avoiding any future problem. In Pharma daily new molecule launch and companies has to search for a unique Trade Name/Brand Name for it. One most common way to search unique brand name to search at IP INDIA website and know whether your brand name is resembling to any other or not. But there is lot of brands available which are not applied for brand name registration. That can’t be searched by it. So, there is maximum chances, any new chosen trade name could clash with any already existing trade name.

Manufacturing companies will ask for brand name affidavit because they want to confirm that you are not using any other company brand name. You Brand Name/Trade Name is unique and don’t resemble to any other Brand Name/trade Name available in Market. If in Future your Brand Name will clash with any other Company’s Brand Name, you will have total responsibility for it. Manufacturing company will not bear any responsibility and expenditure with regard to this brand name.

If one company is marketing by Name of Sovamax, you can’t choose any Trade Name/Brand Name Similar or resembling to it like Aovamax. It will be offense under Intellectual Property Act. You have to choose different Name like Kdakmax etc. For entering into contract manufacturing, you should set-up your new marketing company and have to choose brand names for it.