Healthcare

ColaLife crate
Feature Article
| April 12, 2013

Medicine kit package helps ColaLife save lives in Zambia

Wedge-shaped anti-diarrhea Kit Yamoyo package ‘piggybacks’ in unused space within CocaCola crates to take advantage of the beverage giant’s global distribution system.
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Rollprint Water Line
News
| April 10, 2013

Rollprint to install pouch manufacturing line

Packaging material supplier investing $1.25 million in Swiss machine for sterile medical packaging and other demanding applications.
Machine Product Brief
| April 9, 2013

Horizontal continuous-motion cartoner for syringes

Designed to package syringes in cardboard trays at speeds up to 400 syringes/min., the Marchesini Group’s horizontal continuous-motion cartoner, the MA352 with Robocombi Robotic infeed system, is equipped with specially designed magazine units for feeding cardboard trays, and equipped with two robotic infeed systems, one for erecting the trays and one for feeding syringes.
NovoPen Echo
Feature Article
| April 8, 2013

Pharmapack Europe winners reflect package diversity

Pharmaceutical package winners include Novo Nordisk insulin pen, Weleda’s carton for vials, and a blister-pack carrying case.
Dr. Desmond G. Hunt
Column/Opinion
| April 2, 2013

USP addresses moisture permeation in pharmaceutical packaging

Dr. Desmond G. Hunt, senior scientific liaison within the U.S. Pharmacopoeial Convention (USP), discusses USP’s pending revisions to USP General Chapter Containers—Performance Testing, concerning packaging and moisture permeation.
Pharmapack Edelmann Weleda
News
| March 26, 2013

Folding carton for Weleda earns Pharmapack honors

Supplier Edelmann recognized for two-part folding carton that can be easily handled and automatically filled.
Healthcare reform
News
| March 22, 2013

Patient non-adherence costs underestimated

Healthcare Packaging associate publisher Liz Tierney reports that RxAdherence 2013 stressed the importance of medication adherence on healthcare-related costs.
Column/Opinion
| March 21, 2013

No standing pat at Pack Expo or at Perrigo

Never ones to stand pat when it comes to the packaging shows they organize and produce, the folks at PMMI have cooked up something brand new for Pack Expo Las Vegas this year: the Center for Trends & Technology, or CTT.
Avive image
News
| March 15, 2013

HCPC announces 2012 Compliance Packages of the Year

Avive, Med-ic, and Strattera earn top honors from the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council at RxAdherence.
HealthPack 2013
News
| March 13, 2013

Greater product complexity demands more of healthcare packaging

Johnson & Johnson speaker examines package failures, the decline of sterilization experts, and more complex products among a changing landscape in healthcare packaging.

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