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Medical device packaging: Page 113
Adherence/Delivery
Healthy prognosis for healthcare packaging
Pharmaceutical firms seek packaging line improvements to cut costs, biologics present packaging challenges, and medical device growth is driven by aging baby boomers. These treatment advances bode well for the healthcare/life sciences packaging community. Packaging materials need to offer protection from point of manufacture to the "last mile" where healthcare products reach a patient. Packaging materials must provide barriers for moisture, oxygen, light and heat, and they may include overt and/or covert security measures to combat counterfeiting and diversion. Equipment will need to package products more efficiently, be validatable and versatile.
December 25, 2007
Adherence/Delivery
Cooperation proves critical in making Artegraft tube
In this Q&A, Mel O'Leary, Jr., president and CEO of Meredith-Springfield Associates, describes how copolyester resin and supplier cooperation helped make the Artegraft tube. Meredith-Springfield is a plastic molder of technical hollow containers and custom bottles. It uses Eastman Chemical's Eastar Copolyester MB002 resin to extrusion/blow-mold the Artegraft tubes.
November 19, 2007
Package Design
Operating room personnel input critical to new peelable chevron header pouch
A nurse/doctor forum convened by Rollprint earlier in the year served as the catalyst for the company's new Duet functional peelable chevron header pouch. Designed to ease pouch access and improve aseptic presentation, the new-generation pouch was developed after operating room physicians and nurses from the Austin, TX, area participated in a packaging focus group. The intent was to glean insight into the pros and cons of existing sterile medical packaging and to better understand what innovative design improvements would help healthcare workers better perform their jobs.
October 16, 2007
Medical Device/Packaging
Vapor transmission film
* Arnitel VT 3104 film for medical applications such as gowns and drapes
October 12, 2007
Adherence/Delivery
Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum 2008 taking shape
Packaging Hall of Fame inductee Edward J. Bauer, investigative reporter and award-winning author Katherine Eban, and Joint Equipment Transition Team (JETT) Chairman Jim John are among the speakers scheduled to make presentations at the upcoming Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum (PPF) 2008. Produced by Healthcare Packaging and Packaging World magazines, the event will be held on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at The Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia, the same venue that hosted the initial PPF March 29, 2007.
September 21, 2007
Adherence/Delivery
Prototype pack has designs on medical emergencies
If ex-lifeguard Christine Doolittle has her way, patients who are unconscious or not breathing may one day be rescued thanks in part to an easy-to-access prefilled syringe pack she developed as a prototype last year while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Industrial Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA. The package is not being sold commercially. The prototype was developed as part of a Design Initiative between SCAD and Eastman.
September 19, 2007
Medical Device/Packaging
Thermoplastic elastomers for medical applications
* TPE materials said to provide oxygen barrier performance up to 10x better than conventional TPEs and equal to traditional thermoset butyl rubber for healthcare packaging and delivery systems
September 10, 2007
Labeling/Printing
Plasma Surface Treater
* Plasma3 atmospheric plasma surface treater prints on materials used in medical device packaging, including Tyvek
August 24, 2007
Package Design
Study reports aging population drives medical device packaging
"Continuous technological advancements in the medical device market coupled with an aging population provides wide opportunities for growth in the medical device packaging market," according to Urmila Kishore, analyst of the study The North American Medical Device Packaging Market from Frost & Sullivan. The study shows that the market earned revenues of $569 million last year, with that number predicted to rise to $918.8 million by 2013.
August 15, 2007
Medical Device/Packaging
Automation standards benefit pharmaceutical/medical applications
At a biomedical facility in Ireland, machine automation is coming into play in a validated environment that involves 21 CFR Part 11 electronic signatures, integrated robots and vision systems. The application is a real-world example of good automation standards providing real-world benefits. That's according to Dr. Ken Ryan, director of the Center for Automation in Motion Control at Alexandria Technical College in Alexandria, MN. Ryan was recently interviewed by Ontheedgeblog.com blogger Keith Campbell. Also interviewed by Campbell was Shane Loughlin, president of SL Controls. Ryan and Loughlin were in Ireland at the time of the interview, investigating the healthcare packaging-related application that leverages automation standards to integrate best-of-breed equipment. The information in this article is excerpted from this recent interview. Listen to the complete podcast.
June 29, 2007
Pharmaceuticals
Interphex, HealthPack issue calls for presentations
July 20, 2007 is the deadline for presentations to be made at Interphex 2008 and at HealthPack 2008. Interphex 2008 will be held March 26 – 28, 2008 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. HealthPack 2008 will take place March 4-6 at the Sheraton Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, TX.
June 25, 2007
Medical Device/Packaging
Start-up has bold ERP goals
Based in Las Vegas, Med-Health is a combination of three independent businesses where Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology from SAP will play a key role. Currently operating is a Med-Health business that sells medical supplies like gowns, gloves, sutures, and other "consumables." Opening this summer was a pharmaceutical drug wholesaler. And some time around January of 2008 will be the opening of a Med-Health pharmaceutical repackaging arm.
June 18, 2007
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