Material handling

UPS delivers $9 million of flu vaccine to Laos

Walgreens donates 375,000 doses that UPS air-ships more than 9,000 miles in five days through five countries, maintaining mandatory 2° to 8°C temperatures through a range of climates.

May 14, 2012

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live From Interphex: Carton printing track and trace module

The Bosch CPS800 is a carton printing system module, which consists of a print and a camera to automatically print and verify up to 400 cartons per minute. Tracking data is printed onto the product and automatically checked for accuracy by the camera with reads each printed digit. Within milliseconds it compares the human-readable text with the 2D data matrix code and verifies it for accuracy.

May 8, 2012

Material handling

Live From Interphex: New Easy-to-Use Temperature Loggers

Vaisala introduces the Vaisala Cold Chain logger CCL 100. A new logger which records and monitors time and temperature during the transport of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and other perishable products. It's thin, and small, and it comes pre-calibrated and programmed. Provides 21 CFR Part 11-compliant records for temperature, relative humidity, differential pressure, level, door switches, and more.

May 8, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

An end-to-end solution for track and trace -- fingerprint your brand

Videojet IMprints is a production-floor suite of hardware, software, and services. The system applies unique codes to products and then verifies and tracks them all the way to the intended destination. This brochure provides an overview of track and trace and describes the company’s state-of-the-art IMprints solution.

April 16, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Fingerprint your brand through advanced track and trace technology

Track and trace is crucial today and is becoming a legal requirement in many industries -- especially pharmaceuticals. This Videojet video provides an overview of track and trace issues and describes the company’s state-of-the-art IMprints solution.

April 16, 2012

Protective/transport packaging

Package design helps keep the patient first

Keeping patient safety in the forefront when designing packaging ensures that the drug or compound arrives intact and at optimal efficacy.

March 21, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

Grant issued to study sheep's wool for packaging and shipping vaccines

To combat growing vaccine waste, a U.K. government initiative reportedly will back R&D of sheep's wool packaging for pharmaceuticals.

March 19, 2012

Operational Excellence

Sanofi-Aventis speaker addresses the pros and cons of serialization methods

Product integrity, authentication, and identification are three key principles in an efficient anti-counterfeiting strategy.

March 2, 2012

Operational Excellence

Beyond the cold chain: Tips for protecting CRT healthcare products

A supply chain topic high on the priority list of many healthcare manufacturers today is the fast-growing area of cold chain transportation. With the exponential growth of temperature-sensitive biologics and high-value vaccines, ensuring protection of cold chain products is vital.

February 19, 2012

Material handling

Time/temperature-monitoring system for fresh-cut fruit

Blue Skies employs RFID technology for shipments of fresh-cut fruit from African fields to U.K. tables.

January 9, 2012

Operational Excellence

Track-and-trace supplier expands offerings

Nutec Systems discusses the future needs of track-and-trace and offerings such as vision, printing, and product-handling systems.

October 30, 2011

Operational Excellence

Cold chain courier services for healthcare manufacturers

Online searching can help find a courier to meet temperature and regulatory challenges.

October 26, 2011

Operational Excellence

Cold Chain Forum takes global, holistic perspective

Among the event’s highlights is a new U.S. Pharmaceopeia 1083 guidance chapter aimed at pharmaceutical counterfeiting in the supply chain.

September 29, 2011