Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging Association to reprise Sourcing Center at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2015

The CPA's Sourcing Center at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2015, September 28-30, at Booth #C-1257, will showcase of contract packager members and their services, as well as assistance in finding and utilizing a contract packager.

August 11, 2015

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Contract packaging

U.S. leading global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing market

Mordor Intelligence cites Merck, Pfizer, Famar, Recipharm, and Novartis as major players in a market forecast to grow 6.4% through 2020.

August 10, 2015

Contract packaging

U.S. leading global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing market

Mordor Intelligence cites Merck, Pfizer, Famar, Recipharm, and Novartis as major players in a market forecast to grow 6.4% through 2020.

August 10, 2015

Flexible packaging

The Schubert Group finds new HQ in Charlotte

The U.S./Canadian company will also transition to new name—Schubert North America—in concert with the move.

August 10, 2015

Containers

Belgium’s talking bottles

For nearly 10 years a team of developers at KHS, a packaging machinery OEM based in Germany, has been working on a technology that permits direct digital printing on beverage bottles.

August 10, 2015

Sustainability

Materials make a difference

Haircare products maker Vogue Intl. switches to thinner labels for its bottles, reducing the environmental impact of its packaging by 26% to 34% in a number of categories.

August 10, 2015

Sustainability

P&G to increase PCR content in 230M laundry care bottles annually

Representing enough plastic to go from North to South Pole, 230M bottles annually of some of P&G’s flagship laundry care brands will soon comprise up to 50% PCR material.

August 7, 2015

Labels

A-B InBev serves up 200,000 unique labels for summer promo

The customization/personalization bug has now bitten brand managers at A-B InBev.

August 6, 2015

Flexibles

Microdermis launches Provodine in award-winning packaging

Ampac’s seven-layer laminate provides package integrity, barrier, portability, and dispensing functionality for this next-generation infection control product.

August 6, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Made in America

The lite-F is groninger’s first American-made filling machine. By relying on recent advances in controls technology, machine footprint is down by 50% and cost is cut, too.

August 5, 2015

Filling/capping, dry

VSP for seafood

Carefully engineered system facilitates retailers’ ability to buy fish frozen, thaw them, and sell them in a refrigerated state in the same packaging without product deterioration.

August 5, 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

Plastics/resins

Sanofi’s Nasacort® Allergy 24HR booklet pack with thermoform delivers ‘wow’ factor

Package design uses thermoformed ‘N’ to help make successful switch from prescription-only to over-the-counter sales.

August 5, 2015