Operational Excellence

First FDA-Approved Med Using 3D Printing Now Available

Aprecia Pharmaceuticals’ SPRITAM® tablets to treat seizures maintain integrity within unit-dose packaging.

March 24, 2016

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Additives, coatings & inks

Could Plant-Based DNA Tags be a Game-Changer?

Technology could help detect counterfeit meds at the ingredient level, and be used in packaging inks, but regulatory and cost issues could slow industry adoption.

March 22, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

The New Pharma Factory

Under FDA and industry pressure, drug manufacturers are abandoning their old batch ways for a continuous approach to manufacturing. But it’s a slow transition.

February 24, 2016

Operational Excellence

Ipack Ima begins new era with Fiera Milano and UCIMA partnership

Ipack Ima moves its offices to Fiera Milano to broaden new international synergies.

January 25, 2016

Packaging line integration

3D Printing To Boost Global Growth in Plastics Processing Machinery

Freedonia report anticipates the global market for plastics processing machinery will advance 4% annually through 2019 to $35.8 billion.

December 3, 2015

Operational Excellence

Protecting personnel from potent compounds

Pharma EXPO presentation identifies key considerations while packaging oral solid-dose medications.

October 1, 2015

Operational Excellence

LIVE FROM Pharma EXPO: Protecting personnel from potent compounds

Pharma EXPO presentation identifies key considerations while packaging oral solid-dose medications.

October 1, 2015

Operational Excellence

Conference explores efficiency and workforce development

Pharma EXPO’s sessions investigate empowering employees, single-use systems, OEMS and CMOs, and microbial contamination.

August 5, 2015

Packaging line integration

Pharma EXPO takes Las Vegas

With the strength of PACK EXPO alongside them, new technologies, insights, and ideas are laying the groundwork for Pharma EXPO’s powerful Las Vegas debut.

June 19, 2015

Operational Excellence

PACK EXPO Welcomes the Center for Trends & Technology Back to Las Vegas

PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Pharma EXPO 2015 (Las Vegas Convention Center; Sept. 28–30) welcome back the Center for Trends and Technologies: Improving Production Through Innovation (CTT) (Booth C-4829), sponsored by Rockwell Automation and its PartnerNetwork Program.

May 3, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: MES software

PharmaSuite MES Software is a single track-and-trace system for batch and discrete production.

April 22, 2015

Contract Packaging

Gluing the virtual seams

It doesn’t matter whether the little black boxes of your supply chain are owned by a single company or spread across a network of outsourcing partners.

November 17, 2014

Material handling

Immobilized plant cells: from DSMZ to the customer

VisiSens technology is used to detect metabolic activities of immobilized plant cells during simulated cell transport in a closed system.

September 17, 2014