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Welcome to 2006. What does the new year hold for packagers of healthcare-related products? To find out, we spoke with veteran packaging professionals for a series of articles called "Forecasting the Future." Watch for the matching icon on stories in this issue about lean manufacturing at Smith & Nephew Orthopedics, pondering packaging machinery and materials advances, evaluating outsourcing and the use of contract packagers, packaging management strategies, and some candid views on validation. The experts interviewed for this series are: Nancy St. Laurent, senior engineer of sterile facilities and packaging systems at Lockwood Greene;