Your clinical trial packaging: right first time, on time
Trust in our 70+ years of experience to get your clinical trial packaging right across the entire lifecycle of your products. Rely on our global reach to meet your study milestones with proven on-time, in-full delivery.
Sharp’s responsiveness and flexibility are truly gold standard. Their dedication to the core values of quality and service allows for a true partnership and success in getting our product to patients in need.
— External Manufacturing, Top Mid-size Pharma Company
Choose the dosage form that suits your study
- Bottling — solids and semi-solids
- Blister packaging — cold-form and thermo-form
- Pouching — powders, oral solid dosage, medical devices, ampoules
- Tube filling — creams and ointments
- Sterile fill-finish — syringes, vials, cartridges
Access reliable cold-chain clinical packaging services
We package and label at 2–8°C and −20°C, handle products to −70°C, then store and ship through temperature-controlled depots (to −80°C) across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
The people at Sharp are collaborative, responsive and always willing to accommodate our needs, and this is something to be admired. If they say they can do something, they will deliver no matter what – ultimately, their success is our success, and vice versa.
— Sr Quality Supplier Manager, Top 10 Pharmaceutical Company
Rely on sterile fill-finish isolator lines
Every aseptic fill-finish at Sharp runs on 100% isolator-based lines to achieve the greatest sterility assurance from clinical batches through to commercial supply.
Partner with one team, end-to-end
With their breadth of experience, our team runs your product from design through to delivery, including kit design, secondary clinical trial packaging and labeling, kitting and blinding, and logistics.
Sharp is an exceptional partner in the packaging CMO space. They have a dedicated launch team which is unique and a huge benefit vs. having the project lead that handles commercial business also manage the launches. Launches can be very time consuming and they can focus on these activities vs. having to also manage the commercial side.
— Top 10 Pharmaceutical Company
Meet your milestones with on-time, in-full delivery
By leveraging 9 GMP facilities across the US, UK, and EU, and 30+ depots worldwide, we deliver your clinical trial packaging on time and in full (98–99% in the EU and 88–94% in the US).
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Find out more about how our clinical trial packaging services could work for your study.
Frequently asked questions
What is primary clinical trial packaging?
Primary packaging is the container that comes into direct contact with your product, such as a bottle, blister, pouch, tube, syringe, vial, or cartridge. It protects product integrity and is the packaging format for labeling, kitting, and distribution.
Which dosage forms can you package?
Solids and semi-solids (bottling), cold- and thermo-form blisters, pouches for powders, oral solid dose, devices and ampoules, creams and ointments (tube filling), and sterile syringes, vials and cartridges.
What are typical timelines for clinical trial packaging?
Timelines depend on dosage form, batch size, and study design. With packaging, labeling, and distribution under one roof, we reduce handoffs and can handle urgent or manual packaging when your timeline tightens. Talk to our team about your study details for a project-specific estimate.
Learn more about what can impact your timelines and delay your first patient-in date in our Q&A with our clinical project managers, who handle these challenges every day.
Does your primary packaging connect to labeling, kitting, and distribution?
Yes. Our primary packaging services are complemented by kit design, secondary packaging, labeling, and a global distribution network of 30+ depots. Your global studies also benefit from our logistics experts, who handle the coordination of multiple vendors on your behalf.
Can you scale from clinical packaging into commercial supply?
Yes. When your clinical study successfully launches to commercial supply, we can offer a seamless service to support your launch. We have 70+ years of experience in commercial packaging, backed by a global quality system (PQS), so progressing to launch doesn’t require you to switch partners.
Read more about how our team supported one pharma client from clinical through commercial launch.
