Dear Pharma Pals,

This issue of Pharma Machines & Technology carries the IMA Exclusive, an exhaustive coverage of the world leader in the design and manufacture of automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceutical products.

Wide portfolio of machines and the ability to offer tailor-made solutions to satisfy the most sophisticated requests in the market are the biggest strengths of IMA Pharma. IMA Pharma includes three highly specialised divisions: IMA Active (Solid Dose Solutions), IMA Life (Aseptic Processing & Freeze Drying Solutions),and IMA Safe (Packaging Solutions).

IMA Exclusive is eventful with the interviews of Thomas Fricke, Commercial Director of IMA Pharma, and of Mahadevan Iyer, Managing Director, IMA-PG India Private Limited, a company that has been serving the Indian pharmaceutical industry for the past 57 years, as Precision Gears Limited (PG) for last 40 years and as IMA-PG since 2010, after becoming a subsidiary of IMA SpA, Italy.

IMA Exclusive also includes articles on new generation tablet counting lines, complete lines of packaging machines, highly customizable solid dose solutions, and vaccine manufacturing lines from a single source.

Pharma veteran Gurmeet Singh’s third article in the series on Pharma 4.0 talks on cyber attack and pharma. The threat of cyber attacks is real. The Covid-19 pandemic also hastened the cyber pandemic. In 2020 when the pharma
companies were involved in the race to get the coronavirus vaccine to market, the threats of cyber attacks were on the rise.

This issue also carries an article on pharma project management, its methodology, tools and career opportunities, by project management and operational excellence professional, Priya Soni. If you want to get some useful
insights on project management, make career in it or guide someone into it, you
must read it.

STAY SAFE, STAY HEALTHY

Harjit Singh Dhaul
Publisher & Editor