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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. Visit us at booth #1709 at Interphex.
Klöckner Pentaplast
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Catalent's DelPouch® Unit-Dose Delivery System
 Catalent offers DelPouch technology, a unique delivery system. Providing an easy to use, precise and sanitary means of applying lotions, creams and ointments, DelPouch eliminates the need to squeeze a tube onto hands or fingers, and instead allows consumers to dispense and apply products in a single step.
Catalent Pharma Solutions
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Placon Takes Medical Packaging to a New Level
 From concept design to finished product, Placon's dedicated medical team will seamlessly support your product launch. Our custom thermoformed medical packaging will help differentiate your company in the healthcare industry while providing superior protection for your medical devices.
Placon Corporation
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IT'S SAFER INSIDE
 ASEP-TECH® Blow/Fill/Seal. At Weiler Engineering, our staff is dedicated to the design and construction of our ASEP-TECH® packaging machines. The result? The industry's most efficient, aseptic liquid packaging systems-cutting-edge technology that sharply reduces the human element.
Weiler Engineering
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Spee-Dee's NEW Automatic Auger System improves container handling
 The Pneumatic over Hydraulic lift design uses air for a rapid lift and hydraulic damping for a controlled lower as the auger fills the container from the bottom up. Lift height is controlled electronically. A pneumatic container gripper is adjustable for different size bottles.
Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery
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Hear packaging legal columnist Eric Greenberg on May 27 in Princeton, NJ
 It's harder than ever to predict how today's FDA will react to even seemingly minor issues. Access current regulatory updates for pharma and med device packagers from packaging attorney Eric Greenberg at this year's Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshops. Register now!
Healthcare Packaging
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Nanotechnology to drive pharmaceutical packaging growth
Improved barrier properties in plastics and enhanced functionality will increase demand for 'nano-enabled' pharmaceutical packaging. That's according to a recently published report from iRAP, Inc. called "PH-1 Nano-Enabled Packaging for the Pharmaceutical Industry-A Global Technology, Industry and Market Analysis."
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Sustainability growing as a medical device packaging concern
Designers may carry the burden of developing 'greener' medical devices and packaging to help offset hospital waste and increased environmental concerns. Some suppliers are seeking to spur eco-friendly change, according to a National Council for Advanced Manufacturing article...
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Europe shows the way to pharmaceutical serialization
Through government regulations and/or standards organizations, Europe is out in front when it comes to serialization in pharmaceutical and medical device packaging applications. A "Voice of the Experts" Q&A with Robb Robles, Cognex product marketing manager, and Kris Bierbaum, Cognex pharmaceutical global accounts manager...
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Eli Lilly extends clinical trials materials relationship
Biopharmaceutical company Eli Lilly reached a new five-year agreement with the Fisher Clinical Services business of ThermoFisher Scientific, involving Lilly's in-house clinical trial materials manufacturing, packaging and labeling operations on-site at the Lilly Technology Center-North in Indianapolis...
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Examining the new role of the packaging distributor
Dramatic changes in the economic landscape over the past 18 months have customers relying on distributors to an even greater extent, frequently viewing them as an extension of their package-sourcing department...
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MATERIAL
Self-lifting label
- a new development in the company's Pharma-Comb labels delivers enhanced convenience and ease-of-use for multidose medications
- after opening the upper label, the label parts underneath automatically "rise" for easy and efficient peel-off
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even if healthcare personnel are wearing gloves, the upright, self-lifting label parts easily detach for application to filled, disposable syringes
Schreiner MediPharm
Eco-friendly color concentrates
Plastics Color Corp.
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MACHINE
Ink-jet printer
- i-Jet PoE (Power over Ethernet) HP-based ink-jet printer prints up to 3,000 unique 2D codes/min, with codes auto-formatted to either GS1 or ECC200 standards
- Manufactured in Germany by Mark-O-Print, the printer is suitable for track-and-trace projects
- compatible with all vision system platforms, it can use a just-released dye-based HP Ultra Black ink with a 10-hr decap time
Code Tech
Nestable drum
- 'Click Pack' water-tight, robust drum uses an integrated rubber gasket in its lid to prevent moisture
- easy-opening/closing with a tamper-evident seal, the lid opens and closes with a quarter turn
- reduces supply chain cost with its ability to easily stack
CurTec
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Pharmaceutical and healthcare products package designers and brand managers
Shelf Impact!'s Package Design Workshop is coming to Minneapolis on April 28! Learn what motivates the 2010 consumer, as we share our new research on buyer behavior. Discover package design tactics and trends that incorporate shape, color, and function to create packaging that sells.
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Packaging Automation Forum
Driving profit through controls and integration technology. Produced by Packaging World and Automation World. May 4 at the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare, Rosemont, IL |
Shelf Impact!'s Package Design Workshops
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. |
Packaging Summit 2010
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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Attend INTERPHEX 2010!
Join us at INTERPHEX - the world's largest and most trusted meeting place for leading-edge technology, education, products, services, capabilities and networking that drive scientific and process innovation in FDA regulated drug manufacturing - from development to market. Click here for more information.
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