MILESTONES TIMELINE:   1975 - 1989  |  1990 - 1999  |  2000 - Today

1975

Baxa Corporation is founded in Northbrook, Illinois, by Brian Baldwin and Ron Baxa as the first company to market pre-packaged inhalation drugs in pre-filled syringes. Unique ExactaMed® Oral Liquid Dispenser provides accurate and safe delivery of oral liquid drugs.

1977

Baxa transfers sales of pre-packaged inhalation drugs to private-label customer. Marketing shifts to a focus on unit dose preparation through sales of ExactaMed Oral Liquid Dispensers and related products.

1979

Cook Group of Indiana purchases Baxa Corporation.

1981

Baxa relocates to Denver, Colorado.

1986

The company moves to its own facility in an industrial park in the south-central suburbs of Denver.

1987

Four partners, including Brian Baldwin, lead a leveraged buyout of Baxa Corporation from Cook.

1988

Brian Baldwin invents the ExactaMed Pharmacy Pump. This peristaltic pump, the first designed exclusively for pharmacy use, was subsequently awarded a US patent (1991). Baxa UK established as a Baxa distributor in Bracknell, England.

1989

A prototype compounder for TPN (total parenteral nutrition), the MicroMacro™ Compounder, is developed from the company’s core technologies and introduced at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Mid-Year Clinical Meeting.


Pictured Above (Top to Bottom):
Baxa ExactaMed Liquid Dispensers

Baxa Headquarters circa 1986

The first Baxa MicroMacro Compounder



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