ICNEA 2780—Manufacturing of pharmaceutical excipients and packaging materials

Where 2780 sits

1. C Manufacturing industry
2. 27 Pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
3. 278 Manufacturing of pharmaceutical excipients and packaging materials
4. 2780 Manufacturing of pharmaceutical excipients and packaging materials

What 2780 includes

• Refers to the manufacture of pharmaceutical accessories and packaging materials.
• Including the following pharmaceutical excipients and packaging materials manufacturing activities：
• Gauze, cotton flower and similar medical soft fillers: medical cotton flower, bandage, gauze, other similar medical soft fillers;
• Medical suture materials and sterile materials for surgery;
• Sterile surgical intestinal thread and similar suture materials: intestinal thread, natural fiber suture material, synthetic polymeric fiber medical suture material, medical metal suture material, adhesive tape, other sterile surgical intestinal thread and similar suture materials;
• Sterile kombu and sterile kombu plugs;
• Medicinal capsules made of gelatin, etc;
• Other pharmaceutical excipients and packaging materials;
• Excipients for new solid preparations;
• New coating material;
• New excipients for injection;
• Premix excipients for medicinal preparations;
• Processing of raw materials, excipients and preparations of different sizes (commissioned contract production (CMO)).

What 2780 excludes

• Manufacturing of sanitary materials, included in 2770 (manufacturing of sanitary materials and medical supplies);
• The manufacture of medical supplies (such as the production of gelatin capsules, etc) is included in 2770 (the manufacture of sanitary materials and medical supplies).

2780 in other systems