Flexible packaging

Blister and pouch in-line printing

Easy to validate, quick set up and operation, Griffin Rutger's TruFlex offers tool-less changeover and "on the fly" adjustments.

November 18, 2010

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Run large and small blisters on one machine

Pharmawork's TF3 features toolless changeover, and servo indexing with integrated cooling after forming.

November 10, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Integrated modular blister and cartoner for pharma

Small and medium batch blister and carton module geared for frequent and quick changeover. Produces 300 blisters and 150 or 300 cartons per hour.

November 2, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

PrePak acquires TestPak packaging and logistics company

PrePak Holdings Inc. announced it has successfully acquired TestPak, a health care supply chain company in Whippany, N.J.

September 20, 2010

Flexible packaging

Pharmaceutical packaging demand forecast to rise through 2014

Regulations and standards that address issues such as barrier protection, patient drug compliance, and diversion and counterfeiting will increase demand for containers and accessories.

September 9, 2010

Cartoning

Marchesini Open House, October 18-22

From October 18-22, 2010, Italian pharmaceutical and cosmetic packager Marchesini will open its doors in Pianoro, (Bologna) Italy, to customers, the press and anyone else who wants to see the company’s newest packaging solutions.

September 8, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Global developments deliver encouraging news for packaging

A solid-dose packaging plant in Hungary, vial-filling capabilities in the U.K., and plants in the U.S., China, and Spain demonstrate worldwide growth in pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals.

August 3, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Evaluating in-mold labeling

How does this method of decoration stack up as an option?

July 26, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

New breed of blister pack for trimmer line

Desert Extrusion patents a new vinyl packaging design that addresses the previous package’s unfortunate tendency to behave like a jack-in-the-box.

July 3, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Adherence packaging in a changing healthcare market

A look at blister packaging as a format designed to improve patient compliance with a medication regimen, and other life science packaging issues, from the perspective of MeadWestvaco’s (MWV) Joel Beckerman, senior manager, product marketing, and Julia Amadio, global vp of marketing for healthcare.

July 1, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Contract packager works with machine supplier to meet customer demands

To flexibly meet customer demand for shorter runs and multiple products, German contract packager KLOCKE works with its machinery supplier to train employees to quickly set up and changeover machinery.

June 17, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

HCPC announces Packages of the Year

Four packages earn honors at the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s 18th Annual National Symposium on Patient Compliance.

May 10, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Healthcare reform could boost use of compliance-prompting packaging

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s Symposium honors Pfizer, Anderson Packaging with its 2009 Package of the Year Award.

May 6, 2010