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Sponsors June 8, 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.

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

MOCON Webinars Highlight Medical Packaging Issues

Two webinars already this year have focused on the medical device industry. Focuses on package integrity and also on ASTM F2097 and choosing proper testing methods. Check out the events page on our website to see upcoming seminars and also to download and view these past seminars.

MOCON

Your material neutral source for structural & graphic design package expertise

Unisource Design Centers create primary and secondary packaging and merchandising display designs that enhance profitability and productivity. We help you improve profitability and grow market share while reducing packaging costs and meet sustainability objectives.

Unisource

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

controls and automation

Labeling a focus of FDA's new Medical Device Home Use Initiative

Recognizing the aging U.S. population and shifts toward shorter hospital stays, the agency looks to protect patients using medical devices at home.

P&G wins DuPont gold award

Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, earned a Gold Award from DuPont for revisiting its approach to flexible film packaging for the company's Always feminine line of products...

Vitamin-enhanced water debuts in PET

AriZona Beverage Co. launches RESCUE Water in injection blow-molded PET bottles that use an oxygen-scavenging technology...

Two-in-one prefilled vial design provides innovation

Tamper-evident design of vial dispenser enables consumers to determine the authenticity of the product, earning a DuPont award...

HIV markets show promise in India and Brazil

Growth opportunities exist for 'Big pharma' as concerns over resistance and intolerance are leading to greater pressure on governments in India and Brazil to increase funding for newer antiretroviral treatments for HIV...

Video: Small Footprint Capsule-Fuller for Clinical Trials and Labs

NEW Products

MATERIAL

High-speed laminate films

  • Flexi-Free® HS may be used in high-speed form/fill/seal applications, with a 20% increase in pouch-making speeds on hf/f/s machines
  • heat-seal at temperatures 40° lower than standard laminate materials, allowing shortened dwell times
  • applicable to metalized PET, foil and clear film laminations, for applications such as pharmaceutical, personal care, and consumer products; HS can be applied to the company's child-resistant line, stick-pack films, and pharmaceutical overwraps

Ampac Flexibles

MACHINE

Robotic machine loading

  • new system integrates Fanuc's new M-1iA delta-style robot and ESS-designed end-of-arm-tooling and programming into a compact system for machine loading and unloading
  • integrating the M-1iA robotic system into an ESS monoblock filler/capper allows unloading filled and capped micro-tubes and placing them onto a labeler infeed conveyor at a rate of 60 tubes/min
  • system can be used in loading blister-packaging machines and thermoformers, loading or unloading pucks, sorting or assembly systems, loading moving conveyors, or picking parts from moving conveyors

ESS Technologies, Inc.
Upcoming events:

Webcast - Instinctive Design: Developing iconic, unforgettable design that delights and connects with consumers
This one-hour Web seminar will demonstrate the elements of consumer decision-making, why it is important to leverage and synthesize shopper, consumer, brand and design insight in the design process and much more. June 15 2pm EST.

Shelf Impact!'s Package Design Workshops
One-day workshops teach package design strategies that can give your brand the edge by incorporating today's retail and consumer preferences. Next workshops are in Boston (June 2) and suburban Chicago (June 30).

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

ANNOUNCEMENT

Attend the Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals!

8th Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals Global Forum is the most comprehensive meeting for supply chain professionals to internationally distribute medicines safely with temperature control partners. September 20-23, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. Click here for more information.

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