MM Group’s People-First Strategy in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Packaging Division
An Architecture for New Possibilities in the Pharma Industry
MM’s leaders have brought together smart people and sophisticated technologies to design and deliver fibre-based applications that enable people to live a better life on a better planet. Packaging shapes the way people receive and interact with everything from fast-moving consumer goods through beauty and healthcare products to over-the-counter remedies and prescriptions drugs – therefore MM co-creates with its partners in these branches so that new possibilities become tangible in the way users experience packaging.
When it comes to pharmaceutical packaging, this means we help our partners deliver safe, compliant, reliable treatments that improve patient safety and health outcomes worldwide. The architecture of new possibilities is built using five mutually reinforcing components.
Trust
Trust defines the relationships that sustain the pharma industry. MM adheres to rigorous quality systems and internationally recognised standards to guarantee reliability at every stage. Sophisticated security features safeguard medicines against counterfeiting and preserve the confidence of both pharmaceutical companies and patients.
Partnership
Partnership means acquiring a deep understanding of our customers’ logistics. MM’s technicians work with technicians on the customer side, from pharma packaging prototyping to market launch. MM engineers visit pharmaceutical production facilities and find innovative solutions that will work within the actual parameters of customers’ production set-up. This ensures a seamless integration of new packaging products on existing lines so that medicines will reach the patients who need them on time.
Innovation
Innovation is how MM helps customers and patients master the complexity of healthcare and pharmaceutical therapies. Through ongoing research and close collaboration, MM develops new materials and design concepts that simplify production, reduce process steps, and minimise waste – all while making patients’ user experience with pharmaceutical packaging simple, safe and easy.
Quality
Quality forms the foundation of every package MM produces. From prepress checks and in-line inspections to controlled release systems, MM ensures precision and consistency across all components of the final packaging patients receive.
More Sustainable
More sustainable pharma packaging connects these elements. By maximising the fibre-based content, optimising design and responsibly sourcing materials, MM helps customers meet their ESG goals and answers the demands of end-users for more sustainable packaging – without compromising safety or performance.
Together, these capabilities form a people-first, responsive framework. MM’s approach supports customers in maintaining efficient production and logistics. At the same time, MM plays a critical role in ensuring that patients receive the medicines they depend on in intuitive packaging that is safe and easy to use.
Co-Creation with our Healthcare & Pharmaceutical customers
Pharmaceutical companies today face challenges that extend far beyond production itself: increasingly personalised treatments, new modes of delivery, and stricter environmental regulations. To meet these demands, pharma customers need more than a supplier of materials – they require someone who can bring fresh thinking on how to convert challenges into brand equity and growth of market share.
In achieving these goals, MM acts as a co-creator who brings fresh thinking on how to address market needs that are not yet fully met. MM’s insights span the bandwidth from local understanding to global coordination so that already at the start of the design process, all of the factors that lead to successful pharma packaging development are integrated into the concept: efficient workflows, more sustainable, technically suitable cartonboard, compliant labelling, and reliable logistics.
By mapping out customers’ operational realities, MM strengthens its ability to deliver commercial value – both in terms of reduced operational costs and enhanced patient experience via the channels through which they get their medicines. MM designers’ ability to discover new packaging formats has earned the company a reputation as a trusted companion who understands how packaging works in the pharma industry – and how it might work even better.
Improving Care through Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Packaging for Patients
The collaborative approach that benefits customers has an even more critical function: improving the lives of patients. Whether prescription or over-the-counter, every piece of pharmaceutical packaging produced by MM represents a short, yet important chapter in a much larger story – a story about trust, strength and healing.
When patients enter treatment, packaging may seem secondary to the medicine inside, yet it shapes every moment of that experience. Clear labelling leads to correct dosage. Security features ensure patients are receiving the medicine they need. More sustainable materials deliver the implicit message that the health of humans and of nature are intertwined.
Through smart packaging concepts – such as improved usability, tamper evidence and traceability features – MM assists doctors and pharmaceutical companies in making complex treatment regimens more manageable, especially for those living with chronic or life-impacting conditions. Central to MM’s patient-first design process – from prototyping to roll-out – is ensuring that everyday pharma packaging fully addresses the emotional and practical aspects of care: the ease of opening a package designed for different levels of dexterity while confident that package has not been tampered with.
When patients do not focus on their medicine’s packaging, but rather on the safe, reliable treatment it carries, then it is serving its subtle, yet vital purpose.
Shared Success for Customers and Patients through MM’s Patient-First Pharma Solutions
With MM, customers gain a team player who brings structure, foresight, and innovation to the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Packaging process. MM commercial and technical experts work with pharma companies to streamline operations, reduce risk, and enable faster, more sustainable market entry. The MM approach combines global reach with on-the-ground presence to keep complex supply chains running smoothly.
For the people who depend on these medicines, MM’s part often starts before treatment – and extends to every safely delivered dose. By combining precision engineering, advanced security features and sustainable design, MM helps ensure that each package protects what matters most: the person whose quality of life and health outcomes depend on pharmaceutical intervention. Patients can trust that their treatments arrive intact, authentic and easy to handle, whether at home or in a hospital setting. In this way, MM’s commitment goes beyond compliance and efficiency – it touches the everyday reality of care, where small reassurances can make a great difference.
