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Sterling Anthony, CPP, Contributing Editor

Fundamentals of packaging for intermodalism

As a supply chain grows from regional to national to international to global, it better reflect the fundamentals of intermodalism and what it implies for packaging.

A conceptualized image of a self-driving van with a drone and robot.

Weighing the impact of self-driving vehicles on logistics

While the debate over the pros and cons of self-driving trucks expands, regulations are likely to play a key role in their potential future use.

Michael Kuebler, Technical Director, Smithers Pira North America

First Person: E-commerce lifescience package transportation and testing considerations

Michael Kuebler, Technical Director, Smithers Pira North America, discusses trends and package considerations for life science products transported via e-commerce.

The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.

How an increasingly patient-centric approach is impacting cold chain

The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.

Keren Sookne, Director of Content for Healthcare Packaging, gets fitted for an 'augmented reality' tour in the Pester booth here at Interpack in Düsseldorf.

Spotted at interpack: A 'look' at the future

At the event in Dusseldorf, many companies gave a look at what's to come, including augmented reality (AR) glasses for maintenance and more connected systems for improved OEE.

A schematic of the pull spinning apparatus with a side view illustration of a fiber being pulled from the polymer reservoir. The pull spinning system consists of a rotating bristle that dips and pulls a polymer jet in a spiral trajectory (Leila Deravi/Harvard University)

Taking Wound Care Cues from Spiders

Is point-of-use nanofiber production the future of wound care? Harvard researchers inch closer to a system that could one day produce sterile bandages in the field.

Moderator Aaron Goerke, PhD. Associate Director/Head of Downstream Global Manufacturing Science & Technology at Genentech, with Michele D’Alessandro, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Merck & Company, and Adam Fermier, PhD, Scientific Director, PDMS, Janssen Pharmaceuticals R&D

5 Tips for making use of big data in healthcare production

PDA Annual Meeting: Pulling big data into insights requires a lot more than IT resources. Experts from Merck and Janssen offer advice on moving from hindsight to foresight.

ISTA: Best practices chart.

Challenges and Benefits of Using ISTA’s Standard 20 for the Development of ISC’s

Standard 2D Revision 2.0 uses a QbD approach to develop insulated shipping containers (ISCs) to meet regulatory expectations.

Pat Reynolds, VP Editor

Walmart's tea leaves

Seems like whenever I say anything about Walmart's requirement that only direct-print flexography be used for putting GTIN (Global Trade Identification Number) on corrugated cases of food, feedback comes flooding in.

An employee moves a pallet of empty boxes in preparation for shipment at a Pelican BioThermal service center.

Five Cold Chain Trends Shaping 2017

Heading into 2016, lifescience cold chain trends to watch included passive vs active bulk shippers and the growth of biologics and biosimilars and the patent cliff. Some of these trends will continue into 2017, but here are five additional trends shaping the lifescience cold chain.

Presenting an update on Walmart's case coding mandate.

Walmart and case coding—an update

When last we left our Walmart friends, they’d summarily issued several requirements regarding which methods of printing would be deemed acceptable where GTIN on cases of food is concerned.

Holoptica has developed a new secure document verification and authentication product called DocVAULT that uses a new holographic feature called COMPASS.

Holograms Play Growing Role in Track and Trace Packaging

The technology can incorporate various data forms and product tracking information, as well as link on-pack product identification with supply chain management, market enforcement and forensic support services.

FMOT to ZMOT to PMOT

People outside packaging are often stunned when told that in traditional manufacturing of food and other CPG products that are destined for “traditional” retail sales, the store—not the final user—is the real customer.

Vimal Kumar, Contributing Editor

Medical device packaging standards expanding globally

Standards aim to help manufacturers engineer devices to ensure safety and establish traceability ‘from womb to tomb.’ India and emerging markets may develop their own country-specific standards.

Brian Stepowany

New trends in shipping and transportation: what you need to consider

Over my 33 years of packaging experience, I have seen many changes in packaging.

Packaging value chains

As educators of tomorrow’s packaging professionals, we embrace a holistic approach to innovation that considers the entire value chain, from raw materials to end users.

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Private label packaging: Evolved but under-appreciated

Many private label products project a friendly, comforting, sometimes lighthearted presence through alluring multicolor graphics.

Temperature-controlled packaging is necessary for many products, including the human serum samples shown here.

Temperature-Controlled Packaging Demands Out-of-the-Box Thinking

Highly engineered and innovatively designed temperature-controlled packaging is necessary to gain the greatest cost benefit without compromising patient safety.

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