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April 2008
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Robotic solution automates the pick-and-place of pharmaceuticals from a conveyor belt

02/27/08    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  With pressure to save on costs and become more efficient, the pharmaceutical industry is dosing up on ideas from the food industry, with help from Italian automation specialist IMA and ABB robots. Find out more in this video.

Syringe packaging line uses latest European technology

01/29/08    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  This complete line is an example of the building capacity of Marchesini Group regarding syringe packaging solutions.

Progress in Pharmaceutical Product Identification

07/15/07    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  New white paper from Videojet explains how new coding and marking technologies can help pharmaceutical companies comply with new FDA regulations, combat counterfeiting, enhance patient safety and increase profits.

Thermo form/fill/seal for moderate output

06/26/07    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  The 800MH Thermo Form Fill Seal Packaging Machine is an American made compact and economical solution ideal for new product start up or moderate output rates up to 15 cycles per minute. Video shows medical device application.

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Dos and don’ts on brand protection

04/15/08

Content Type Image  At the first Brand-Protection Packaging Forum, leading brand owners such as Johnson Medical Device and Diagnostics shared strategies.

OTC package brings relief in crowded category

04/08

Content Type Image Healthcare product brand managers are starting to view packaging as more than a product carrier.

Packaging trends in healthcare packaging

04/03/08

Content Type Image  The pulse of pharmaceutical, medical device, and biological markets beats ever faster as the pace of packaging chance accelerates worldwide.

2007 AmeriStars revealed

03/08

Content Type Image  A color-changing coffee lid and barrier PET bottle are the big winners in the annual awards conducted by the IoPP.

The South’s largest packaging event

03/08

Content Type Image  Find solutions to a wide variety of packaging challenges when SouthPack comes to the Charlotte Convention Center March 19-20.

Artegraft switches to copolyester for vascular graft tubes

01/08

Content Type Image  Company transitions from cylindrical glass culture tubes for its collagen vascular grafts to a copolyester-based tube with a flat side, helping to prevent breakage and save money.

Bringing MES to medical device packaging

12/15/07

Content Type Image  Stirling Medical Innovations is implementing a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that Stirling project leader Colin Boyd calls "the way of the future."

Internet seminar on basics of barriers in flexible packaging

12/10/07

Content Type Image  Three separate seminars from MOCON discuss permeation principles and how they impact testing methods. Covers the relationship between permeation, solubility and diffusion. Compares barrier properties of the most important traditional high barrier resins like EVOH, Nylon, PVdC with more recent additions to the barrier offering like PGA, COCs, MXD6 and different types of polyesters including PET, PEN and LCPs.

Cereal manufacturers should switch from two inner bags to one for club store packaging

11/07

Content Type Image  Sustainable packaging is an incremental pursuit, quickened when adoptions are made by an entire category. For example, club-store-size cereals with twin bags inside a carton could be switched by cereal manufacturers to one large bag.

New food reporting requirement hidden in drug law

11/07

Content Type Image  You probably heard about that new law giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration new powers over drugs. Surprise! It also gives FDA the power to order food recalls (almost and sort of).

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Serpa Casepacker gets new servo modules    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  Serpa’s all-servo P200 Balcony Casepaker now uses PacDrive Intelligent Servo Modules to maximum advantage for pharmaceutical applications.

Podcast: Integrating best of breed equipment, and training techs for validated environments

Content Type Image  Automation educator Ken Ryan travels to Ireland to find a real-world application that leverages automation standards to integrate best-of-breed equipment.

Report from medical device show

Content Type Image  Jim Butschli, Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Packaging gives his take on the MD&M show in Anaheim, CA on January 30, 2006.

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