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Collaborative Approach Beats Trial-and-Error

Theoretical packaging engineer “James” received design and prototyping help at Klöckner’s new kp i.center. What can the center do for you?

Klöckner's new state-of-the-art facility opened earlier this year, and is home to kp Pharmaceutical Film Division’s newly expanded BlisterPro® XCEL suite of consulting, design, stability and prototyping services.
Klöckner's new state-of-the-art facility opened earlier this year, and is home to kp Pharmaceutical Film Division’s newly expanded BlisterPro® XCEL suite of consulting, design, stability and prototyping services.

At Klöckner’s Pharma EXPO Innovation Stage presentation in Las Vegas, a friendly paperboard cutout named “James” represented a typical pharmaceutical packaging engineer who received help developing new pharmaceutical packaging during a visit to Klöckner’s Charlottesville, VA-based, kp i.center. The new state-of-the-art facility opened earlier this year, and is home to kp Pharmaceutical Film Division’s newly expanded BlisterPro® XCEL suite of consulting, design, stability and prototyping services.

According to Daniel Stagnaro, Global Director, Market Development in the Pharmaceutical Films Division, the kp i.center provides a collaborative space created to help global pharmaceutical customers bring products to market more quickly and economically. It provides both the facilities and the expertise to help packagers model drug properties, select materials, model designs, prototype those designs, and provide tech services after production. The speaker went into some depth on the various facilities and services:

Fast-Track Drug Stability Modeling: ASAPprime® shelf life modeling software and ASAP laboratory-based studies provide speedy simulation of drug stability, to reduce guesswork and risk of failure.

According to FreeThink Technologies, this cutting-edge software is the only commercially available software that enables pharmaceutical scientists to quickly and accurately determine drug substance and drug product shelf life based on the Accelerated Stability Assessment Program (ASAP). This statistical software allows prediction of small-molecule drug product use periods, shelf lives and drug substance retest periods in as little as two weeks.

Blister Design: BlisterPro® software uses finite element analysis (FEA) to optimize barrier properties and form, as well as tool design. This accelerated process also allows multiple iterations of design and material adjustments to take place quickly and easily. What once could have taken months of design, testing and feedback, can now be accomplished in weeks.

According to Klöckner, BlisterPro® XCEL services help the team explore the effects of tool geometry, film types and process conditions, as well as predict the protective barrier properties of the final package, without running line trials.

Material Selection: Consulting/support in initial material selection for new drugs, off-patent drugs by generics producers, cold-form to thermoform switch-outs, etc. Value engineering tools and analysis are offered to maximize efficiency of the customer’s packaging operations.

Prototyping: In-house CNC machine capability, and an Uhlmann blister line, allow for rapid creation of sample tooling and blister packages for customers.

Technical and Educational Services: Customers have access to a portfolio of educational and collaborative programs for engineers, scientists and packaging designers, to take advantage of either onsite or at the kp.i.center.

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