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Now you can change to polyester without changing a thing.
 Introducing Pentapharm® kpVantage™, the next generation of films for blister packaging. These high-performance polyester-based films run on your existing equipment-no need to change tooling, lidding stock, or package design. Learn more.
Klockner Pentaplast
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Give Your Packaging Line A Healthy Dose of PharmaPack & Label-Aire.
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PharmaPack-US is the exclusive partner of PharmaPack Packaging Equipment in the U.S. & Mexico. PharmaPack is a fast-growing manufacturer of high quality tablet/capsule packaging machinery. We're ready to provide you with the highest level of service for your packaging needs.
Label-Aire & PharmaPack-US
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ShockWatch
 ShockWatch products monitor the shipping and handling of temperature-sensitive, fragile, or tilt-sensitive pharmaceutical products. Click this ad to view our white paper.
ShockWatch
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Diagnostics Assembly and Packaging Machinery from ESS Technologies, Inc.
 ESS Technologies, Inc. offers a range of innovative solutions for the automated assembly and packaging of diagnostics, test kits, medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including filling/capping reagents, automated test kit assembly, cartoning, robotic case packing, and robotic palletizing.
ESS Technologies
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Thermal shipper protects H1N1 vaccines
To prepare for a possible H1N1 pandemic, the Chicago Dept. of Public Health employed 100 insulated shippers to maintain refrigerated vials used to deliver 100,000 doses of the influenza vaccine.
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Sustainable packaging as competitive differentiator
Opportunities exist for companies to use environmental/sustainable packaging as a competitive edge, but defining such packaging and identifying its role is debatable, says a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report...
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Applaud efforts for innovative packaging that benefits patients
To increase patient compliance, there's a pill vial cap with a timer, a pill bottle that flashes orange and plays a melody, and a pill with a sensor chip that works with a cell phone. All demonstrate that innovation is alive and well in the healthcare packaging sector...
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MATERIAL
Safety device for prefilled syringes
- Safe'n'Sound™ is a four-component system (sleeve, body, plunger, and spring) for staked and luer-lock –mL-long prefilled syringes
- provides healthcare professionals and patients with protection from needlesticks to prevent accidental contamination
- when the injection is complete, the syringe retracts automatically in the system without user intervention; works with both cut flanges and round flanges
Rexam Healthcare
Barrier tube film
- Apex 7862 film can be formed into an easy-to-seal, easy-to-open single or sample-use tube package<
- BT film is a seven- or nine-layer coextruded film with excellent oxygen transmission rates; allows for surface treating for printing or lamination
- for unit-of-dose manufacturers requiring a durable, heat-sealable barrier firlm to create a range of tube sizes and shapes
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MACHINE
Semi-automatic tube filler/sealer
- MTS machine uses hot air sealing technology for semi-automatic plastic squeeze tube filling and closing
- designed in the U.S.A. for short-run and low-volume applications; produces up to 25 finished tubes/min
- for plastic, laminate, and metal tubes in a wide size range; occupies small footprint
ProSys
Conveyor modeling software
- 3D CAD conveyor modeling software gives engineers tools to draw to more specific 1/8-inch increments, providing greater flexibility to model and configure a drawing in any length to better fit application designs
- belt cleats can be spaced in literally any increment; drive shaft can be shown in multiple positions
- applicable to all of the company’s platforms: 2200, 3200, 4100, 5200, 6200, 7200, 7300, 7350, 7400, 7600, and MPB Series
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One-day workshops teach package design strategies that incorporate today's retail and consumer preferences. Spring Workshops in Minneapolis and New York City, plus four more locations in 2010.
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The Packaging Summit 2010 - where packaging's leaders come together. May 18-19 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, IL.
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Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshops
Packaging strategies and solutions for pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare products. Breakout workshops offer relevance, optimal education for attendees. Hyatt Regency Princeton, NJ on May 27. |
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In-line digital printing, early tracking for quality control, distribution simulation for med device manufacturers, phase change materials in temperature controlled package designs, moisture and oxygen management, adhesives for sustainable blister materials, and more. We've got the topics that matter to you. Join us on May 27 at Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshops at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton, NJ.
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