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Sponsors June 25, 2010 | Edited by Jim Butschli

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

TCP Family - Ensuring Product Integrity

The TCP Family of Companies is a complete product integrity solutions provider servicing the lifescience industries. The TCP Family consists of Cryopak, the leading manufacturer of cold chain related products and DDL, the leader in package, product and material testing for medical device & pharmaceutical industries.

DDL/TCP/Cryopak

Cost-effective, Child-Resistant Compliance Blister Card with Expanded Branding Space

The manufacturer of Key-Pak®, a child-resistant, senior-friendly blister card, is now offering Key-Pak Plus™: a child-resistant blister card contained within an integrated outer carton offering a cost-effective solution for clinical trial materials, compliance dosing, physician's samples and Rx and OTC application.

Keystone

Novartis packages expensive pharmas with robots. Stringently safe, highly efficient.

When it comes to packaging life-saving and expensive pharmaceuticals, robots provide a precision that not only meets stringent safety guidelines but also improves efficiency.

ABB Robotics

MEDICAL DEVICES

Peering into medical device packaging trends

Package/product integrity, costs, counterfeiting, sustainability, and design issues add complexity to medical device manufacturer challenges today and tomorrow.

Plastic prefillable syringe systems

New biopharmaceuticals, rising production costs, at-home convenience, and safety are driving the need for break-resistant, silicone-free prefilled syringes...

Nurse medication errors and the role of packaging

Sixty percent of nurses polled identified look-a-like drugs and packaging as the sixth-leading cause of medication errors...

2010 NACD awards honor innovation

Twenty-three packages representing a range of industries are lauded by the National Assn. of Container Distributors...

Medical monitoring device design concept introduced

At a June 8 press conference at MD&M East in New York, a team of suppliers unveiled a mobile, wireless, vital signs monitoring system...

FTC targets Snap, Crackle and Pop for health claims on Rice Krispies

As the functional food and beverage market grows, the federal government has promised to crack down on producers' labeling health claims...

Video: Mobile blister-packaging machine

NEW Products

MATERIAL

New shrink sleeve doubles label space

  • XT720 shrink-sleeve packaging provides an added dimension that offers 100% more printable area by creating a peel-away outer label, expanding available space from the traditional 360° to a complete 720°
  • offers room for promotional messaging, directions, coupons, or for drug facts, cross-selling programs, product use information, product performance claims, coupons, brand enhancements, or alternative languages
  • provides option to eliminate folding cartons and create a sustainable, cost-efficient, high-impact label
C-P Flexible Packaging

MACHINE

High-speed bottle capper

  • PLC-15FT press-on and screw-on automatic capper is for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, beverage, and health and beauty industries
  • automatic rejection feature rejects inverted caps to provide continuous product throughput
  • operates at speeds up to 150 bottles/min, stainless-steel construction fits seamlessly into existing product lines
PharmaPack-US
Upcoming events:

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 workshop is in suburban Chicago on June 30.

HBA Global Expo 2010
Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. Product development event and educational conference for the personal care, fragrance, wellness and cosmetic industries, from September 28 - 30.

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

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