Ditone, Europe’s most progressive label manufacturer, has become one of just a handful of companies in its sector to achieve the highest international standard for packaging pharmaceutical materials.

The PS9000:2001 standard for Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials is the first of a new type of code of practice and applies ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9004: 2000 to pharmaceutical printed and contact packaging materials.

Ditone Labels new Quality Systems Manager, Gavin Johnson, said: “We are really delighted to have achieved this important accreditation, which gives us the competitive advantage over the majority of label suppliers and has already increased significantly the number of enquiries we have received from potential pharmaceutical customers.

"The Standard will also give our customers continued confidence that medicines are packaged to a consistent high level of quality.” 

Ditone, based in Cambridgeshire, has recently installed the world's most advanced narrow web press, the first of its kind in the UK, as part of the Company's £2.5 million investment programme to produce the high quality print demanded by the pharmaceutical industry.

The Company is an expanding division of The Boxes Group and offers an exceptional range of print processes and products that include Crystal labels, Peel & Reveal labels, the Extensia multi page leaflet label range and Braille labels to assist the visually impaired.