Contract packaging

New Clinical Syringe Line Key Helps Vetter Meet Growing Batch Production Needs

Additional storage expansion strengthens the facilities’ ability to meet increased customer demand in prefilled syringes.

December 15, 2016

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Pharmaceutical CMO installs high-speed bottling line

Pharma Tech Industries employs unscrambling, filling, checkweighing, metal detection, capping, sealing, bundling and case packing equipment at its Missouri facility.

December 14, 2016

Sustainability

Light-blocking label opens up package design possibilities

The innovative Pentalabel eklipse label substrate from Klöckner Pentaplast blocks light so brand owners can use PET bottles instead of HDPE. The shrink-sleeve label increases shelf life, frees up design and provides a more environmentally friendly packaging option.

December 14, 2016

Flexibles

Mars Drinks rethinks Freshpack design

After a Life Cycle Assessment of its single-serve Freshpack pouch for coffee and tea, Mars Drinks make changes that reduce the carbon footprint of the package by 31%.

December 13, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Medical Marijuana for Senior Patients

Medical marijuana may allow those with pain to stay in the workforce longer. Here’s how one company is appealing to mature patients.

December 12, 2016

Sustainability

Pfizer Enhances Capsule Filling/Weighing in Freiburg, Germany

For more than 30 years, Pfizer’s Freiburg facility has used Bosch machinery that has produced benefits such as lean manufacturing, sustainability and reduced waste. It’s no wonder more equipment will be added in 2017.

December 8, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Handbook unlocks the circular economy for businesses

Included is a comprehensive overview of the circular economy, including real-life examples and case studies, to help business understand how to implement the model.

December 8, 2016

Sustainability

Bausch + Lomb launches contact lens, blister recycling program

Contact lenses and blister packaging can now be recycled through a new program from Bausch + Lomb that also donates to blindness-prevention group for each pound recycled.

December 6, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

What on-pack messaging compels foodservice package recycling?

The Foodservice Packaging Institute conducts a survey to find out how language on foodservice packaging material impacts people’s curbside behavior.

December 5, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Nestlé in the U.S.—strategically consumer-centric

Nestlé S.A. marked its 150th anniversary this year, so what packaged goods company could possibly be more suitable for this year’s VIEW FROM THE TOP discussion?

December 2, 2016

Sustainability

Advanced vapor vacuum capping technology

With co-packer assistance, major salsa producer embraces new metal cap to PET jar sealing system to reduce package damage and freight costs.

December 2, 2016

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging magazine welcomes new Editor

Effective January 1, 2017, Anne Marie Mohan will serve as the new Editor of Contract Packaging magazine.

November 29, 2016

Flexible packaging

Stick sachet line helps Almac Group meet pediatric formulation demand

Machinery expands Almac Group’s commercial packaging facility by packing pediatric drug products—powders, minitabs or granules—in stickpack sachets.

November 29, 2016