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Sponsor May 11, 2010 | Edited by Jim Butschli

Watch Video: UPS Cold Chain Transportation

Watch as a UPS healthcare product manager discusses how UPS cold chain transportation can help ensure the quality of temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments.

Clean. Safe. Certified.

Convince yourself of the power of CurTec packaging. Optically clean packaging does contribute to cleanliness and is available at CurTec. Their packaging provides tamper evident closures and increases transport safety. Plastic drums from CurTec come with full quality certification. This mini-container gives you a flavor

CurTec

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 DelPouch

Constantia Hueck Foils Offers Foil-Based Packaging Solutions for Pharma

Constantia Hueck Foils' products include: anti-counterfeiting security foils; push-through and peelable blister foils; cold-formable foils for absolute barrier to moisture and oxygen; high-slip lidding and capping foil; plus child-resistant and senior-friendly structures.

Constantia-Hueck

Bosch Packaging Technology: Your reliable partner for packaging & process technology

The strength of Bosch's pharmaceutical expertise is based upon five competence areas: Process Technology, Primary Packaging, Secondary Packaging, Qualification and Services. We support our customers in producing and packaging products of highest quality at affordable prices.

Bosch Packaging Technology

COMPLIANCE-PROMPTING PACKAGING

Healthcare reform could boost use of compliance-prompting packaging

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council's Symposium honors Pfizer, Anderson Packaging with its 2009 Package of the Year Award.

Carrier sets 'green' standards for shipment packaging

Damage prevention, 'right-sizing,' and materials form the focus of the Eco Responsible Packaging Program from UPS. Plus, a tour of the carrier's Package Design and Testing Lab in Addison, IL...

Keeping an eye on OTC switch developments

Switches from Rx to OTC flourish despite global recession. Companies are setting up OTC divisions, as non-medical products, regulatory changes benefit OTC sales...

P&G optimizes shelf-ready packaging

Packaging professionals at P&G's Schwalbach, Germany, office improved the shelf-ready secondary packs used for Alldays feminine care products...

Expo Pack Mexico debuts Pharmaceutical Pavilion

Processing and packaging equipment for manufacturers of pharmaceutical products will be a special focus in Expo Pack Mexico's Pharma Pavilion June 22-25...

NEW Products

MATERIALs

Shrink film labels

  • Light-blocking, opaque PETG-HY labels block up to 99% of visible and UV light to safeguard and extend product shelf life, efficacy, and nutritional value
  • for nutraceuticals, vitamin waters, supplements, and other light-sensitive packaged products
  • decorative, promotional 360° color graphics are surface-printed and can be protected with an overprint varnish layer

Gilbreth Packaging

NanoChromics trial kit

  • TKN-4.0 trial kits enable printers to begin manufacturing NCD™ displays for a variety of applications, including information on packaging labels
  • kit contains seven screen-printable NCD inks, guidelines, and documentation for printing standard six or eight-digit numeric displays, sample CAD files, electronics display board with custom software to drive the printed display, and a trial printing license for NCD technology

NTERA

MACHINEry

Capsule filler

  • GKF HiProTect capsule filler earns an OEL/OEB 5 classification to ensure maximum operator protection
  • permits safe filling of powder, tablets, pellets, liquids, and combinations
  • allows contamination levels under 0.05 micrograms of product dust/cubic meter

Bosch Packaging Technology

Wider-width hybrid cushioning system

  • AirSpeed® HC Ultra creates cushioning that is 50% wider than the company’s standard AirSpeed HC unit
  • produces 18-in.-wide pads from 24-inch rollstock; typical perforation preset is every 7 in., but can be modified
  • hybrid cushioning uses multiple air chambers in a horizontal and vertical pattern

Pregis Corp.















Eric Greenberg

ANNOUNCEMENT

Pharmaceutical packaging Attorney Eric Greenberg offers a regulatory update for packagers on May 27

FDA's new emphasis on enforcement has severely changed the climate for regulated businesses; it's harder than ever to predict how today's FDA will react to even seemingly minor issues. Gather critical intelligence from respected industry experts at Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshops at the Hyatt Regency Princeton, May 27.

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Upcoming events:

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.

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.

PACK EXPO International 2010
McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. Produced by the Package Machinery Manufacturers Institute, from October 31 to November 3.

Healthcare Packaging Conference

ANNOUNCEMENT

Over a dozen workshops offer new ways to increase packaging efficiencies

This year's Healthcare Packaging Conference and Workshops includes breakout workshops on topics such as: strategies for minimizing the expense of lost product; automation of primary - and secondary - packaging; quality control through early tracking; blow/fill/seal as an aseptic technology; the new ROI of in-line digital printing; and more! Join us on Thursday, May 27 at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton, NJ.

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