Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blistering the CPSC

Unit-dose packagers complain that the Consumer Product Safety Commission actually inhibits the use of safer child-resistant drug packaging.

March 31, 2003

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Flexible packaging

FPA study picks consumers' brains

Qualitative, focus-group research conducted recently by Perception Research Services on behalf of the Flexible Packaging Assn. (Linthicum, MD) arrived at six key conclusions:

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

February 28, 2003

Sustainability

Technical Innovation shines (sidebar)

Highest Achievements

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

ARC issues pharma report

Just in time for the Interphex show, ARC Advisory Group has released a new Insight report analyzing the business drivers for Gen3 packaging automation in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

February 28, 2003

Flexible packaging

FPA honors innovation

Hershey’s pudding packs and technology for self-venting trayed entrees, first commercialized by Smithfield Packing, earn Highest Achievement honors from The Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2003 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition.

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

HCPC presses to review CR test protocols

In an effort to fill what it feels is a loophole in provisions, the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council has “invited” the new chairman of the U.S.

January 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

January 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Hi-res ink-jet printer

PZ Pilot high-resolution ink-jet system is available as either an oil-based system for printing on porous surfaces such as corrugated cases, or as a solvent-based system for printing on non-porous products such as plastics, PET bottles, metals, blister packs, and coated corrugated.

December 31, 2002

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Plastic-to-plastic sealing

Model 8SRP1216 eight-station plastic-to-plastic sealing machine has a new hot/cold sealing process—conventional heat plate followed by a water-cooled press—that allows high-volume production of blisters and clamshells.

December 31, 2002

Cartoning

All-servo blister machine

Model B300 all-servo blister machine runs at speeds to 300 blister packs/min and has an integrated stacker and cartoner. Features rotary sealing, slitting, and die-cutting, which is said to significantly reduce tooling cost and delivery time compared to systems that are not rotary in nature.

December 31, 2002

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Hardware clutter cutters

The National Hardware Show reveals improvements that leverage packaging through distinctive appeal.

November 30, 2002

Sustainability

Sony uses corn-based resin for blisters

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: Sony Pacific debuted a blister package for a portable radio that incorporates the corn-based resin NatureWorks™ PLA from Cargill Dow LLC (Minnetonka, MN).

October 31, 2002