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Sponsors August 9, 2010 | Edited by Jim Butschli

Give Your Packaging Line A Healthy Dose of Label-Aire & PharmaPack

Label-Aire provides advanced and reliable pressure-sensitive labeling machinery to blue-chip firms the world over. PharmaPack-US is the exclusive partner of PharmaPack Tablet / Capsule Packaging Equipment in the U.S. & Mexico.

PharmaPack-US

Automate Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Packaging Processes

Healthcare packagers can increase productivity and reduce overhead and downtime by integrating robotics into the production line. ESS Technologies' new white paper, "Six Steps to Evaluating Assembly & Packaging Processes for Automation" helps to demystify the process of automating an assembly or packaging line.

ESS Technologies, Inc.

We're coming to sunny California!

Seats are filling for Shelf Impact's Package Design Workshop in Los Angeles on August 25. Pharmaceutical and healthcare products package designers and marketers - our Workshop will show you how to create packaging that sells! Learn package design tactics, trends and related consumer research. Register now!

Shelf Impact!

ANTI-COUNTERFEITING

Smartphone technology can help build consumer relations

Consumers can use their smartphone to verify product authenticity, communicated with a manufacturer, and enroll in product promotion programs.

FDA medication error draft guidance to come by Sept. 30

Packaging, such as container/carton labels, will be considered by the agency in an attempt to reduce errors...

More medicines seized by EU customs in 2009

United Arab Emirates ships three-quarters of seized medical products. EU report reveals that despite lower numbers of goods seized overall, medicines now total 10% of all articles seized, up from 2% in 2006...

Why drug companies must change to survive healthcare reform

Pharmaceutical industry veteran Michael G. Wokasch publishes 'Pharmaplasia' book, talks about the healthcare market and addresses packaging implications...

FTC gives Nestlé a 'time out' for functional food claims aimed at kids

Just six weeks after Kellogg's Rice Krispies took a hit for claiming to help boost kids' immune systems, the company has been called out for deceptive messaging...

Global developments deliver encouraging news for packaging

A solid-dose packaging plant in Hungary, vial-filling capabilities in the U.K., and plants in the U.S., China, and Spain demonstrate worldwide growth in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical packaging...

Muscle tissue protein fabric created at Harvard

This fabric provides a scaffold for growing new tissue and organs, or can be added to bandages to promote faster healing with less scarring...

NEW Products

MATERIAL

Self-adhesive film for clinical trials

  • translucent, self-adhesive film neutralizes color differences between placebo and drug solutions used in clinical trials
  • preserves the view of the liquid fill level in a vial or syringe
  • adaptable to suit the color of the liquid; can be printed with graduation lines, product information, and a "proof of first-opening" element may be integrated as well

Schreiner-Medipharm L.P.

MACHINE

Side loading case packer

The model K-15 fully automatic side loading case packer from Bergami runs at speeds up to 15 cases/min. in an 11 ft. x 6 ft. footprint.

Loads single cartons, bundles, soaps, flow-packs, squeezable tubes and more. Provides accurate, safe feedings, and simple, quick change-overs. The balcony design case packer comes with quick format change ability. Glue or tape closure. Brushed stainless exterior is standard ... read more

Bergami USA

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. Two workshops left in 2010 – Los Angeles (August 25) and Philadelphia (September 22).

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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