Europe's existing and emerging regulatory requirements and supply chain dynamics represent significant challenges for pharmaceutical manufacturers. French CIP13 coding and Turkish Ministry of Health drug tracking are two of the emerging requirements often highlighted by companies in Europe. More are likely to emerge. In fact, in December of 2008 the European Commission proposed legislation to prevent counterfeit products from entering the legal supply chain. This will lead to a harmonization of country specific requirements for drug traceability and authentication. In addition, European manufacturers shipping products to California will need to comply with the e-pedigree requirement and be ready to meet the FDA demands.

In 2008, Systech Europe opened its international headquarters, located in Brussels, Belgium, to help pharmaceutical packagers address regulatory compliance demands, brand protection, traceability needs and other packaging initiatives. Systech's European operations represent the fastest growing region for the company's vision, line management and serialization business.

Systech Europe provides sales, project management, project engineering and customer support to the company's growing number of industry leading clients in-region. Systech's scalable, productized solutions, based on a Packaging Execution System (PES) infrastructure, leverages over two decades of leadership in vision inspection. As the company has evolved its product offering, Systech has emerged as one of the leaders in offering serialization solutions for drug packagers worldwide.

Systech Europe is positioned to provide manufacturers with the capabilities to meet future and current needs such as French CIP13, Turkish serialization or e-pedigree along with a platform to deploy serialization strategies globally. In addition to meeting regulatory compliance demands, pharmaceutical companies around the globe are deploying Systech solutions to successfully address brand integrity, parallel trade and performance optimization initiatives.