Machinery & materials | Healthcare Packaging

The company’s lineup will include a precision high-speed checkweigher for cylindrical packaging formats, a new ultra-compact X-Ray Scanner measuring just 70cm in width, and a serialization unit offering pharma-level traceability for high-value products.

WIPOTEC-OCS to Showcase Precision Checkweigher for Cans, Bottles & Vials at Pack Expo East

Company also will display ultra-compact X-ray scanner for food applications, and pharma-grade serialization unit for high-value product tracking.

Credence MedSystems, one of two winners in the “Best Innovation in Drug Delivery Device,” was chosen for its Connect™ Auto-Sensing Injection System, which incorporates real-time monitoring of critical injection data into a reusable ergonomic grip. The Credence app also measures and transmits injection progress in real-time, as well as providing users with reminders and instructions on how to use the auto-injector.

2020 Pharmapack Award Winners Announced

The Pharmapack Awards celebrate the latest innovations from packaging companies within the drugs, medical devices, health products and veterinary drugs sectors.

Weiler Labeling Systems Presents the Autonomy IV Digital Label Printer at Interpack

Weiler Labeling Systems Presents the Autonomy IV Digital Label Printer at Interpack

High-speed, on-demand printer maximizes production versatility and label qualityW

All-Paper Blister Package

The Alloyd Division of Sonoco introduces EnviroSense PaperBlister, an all-paper retail blister package designed as an alternative to traditional thermoformed plastic blister packages.

Courser 230 can be built to handle both vials and syringes or can be dedicated to one, reducing the cost of investment and floorspace for those needing dual-purpose capability.

NJM: Enhanced Vial/Syringe Labeler

Dual-purpose capability for vials and syringes on the same machine is combined with a new vertical label spool dispenser, designed to maximize production versatility in a compact footprint.

Best Practices for Conveyor Safety

Best Practices for Conveyor Safety

See what the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) has to say about conveyor-specific safety programs and materials that are available for your facility.

Model CEL5-SL uses a Fanuc M-10iD robot to pick a case from the magazine, square the sides, and run the bottom of the case along a taping system.

ESS: Case Packer Line Includes Bottom Load and Side Load Configurations

These configurations increase the scope of products and pack patterns that the CEL5 series can handle.

The company welcomes Alex Robertson as its New Chief Marketing Officer.

ACG Appoints Alexander Robertson as New Chief Marketing Officer

With more than two decades of experience in marketing, branding communication, design, and advertising, Robertson will continue to drive ACG’s marketing initiatives and growth.

Modern laboratory environment in the new 1,800 sqm building.

Vetter Aligns its Development Service Laboratory Portfolio Under One Roof

Bundling of competencies designed to optimize workflow of customer projects. Further expansion of laboratory space to continue through 2020.

All exhibitor innovations submitted for the Pharmapack Awards are showcased in the Innovation Gallery.

Pharmapack Europe Unpacks Key Drivers and Challenges in 2020

Digital value-added medicines, waste management and the use of blockchain identified as key trends for the upcoming year.

Enercon and Innovation decided on an out-of-the-box configuration: two sealers per line, configured at the two different bottle heights required.

Sealing Two Bottles Sizes on One Line

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) needed a tailor-made system to safely seal two bottle sizes.

“Our close partnership means that manufacturing companies in the pharmaceutical and consumer sectors can access a wide range of solutions from a single source,' says Rolf Geissinger, Managing Director of Optima do Brasil, about the new alliance.

Optima and Quality Machines Enter into a Cooperation Agreement

Both companies are working together in the South American pharmaceuticals and consumer market.

Colbert Operations Manager Jeff MacDougall (far l.), and Production Manager Pat Gibbons (lt. blue shirt) work with Colbert’s press operators on the new RMGT press.

Colbert Packaging Installs New State-of-the-Art RMGT Printing Press

Further demonstrating ongoing capital investment and increased capacity for customers.

Featuring a tamper-evident, push-on PE flip-top cap, the printer-friendly SpringTube, can be decorated via digital, flexo or metallic foil processes.

At Pharmapack, Neopac to Showcase SpringTube for Skin Health Products

Company also will feature its new Tube Design Guide, a multi-step primer for optimum recyclability.

Young Living, headquartered in Utah with farms and operations around the world, makes a wide range of essential oils and other products.

Hitting Essential Filling Speeds for Essential Oils

With expansions in pharmaceutical, medical, and food and beverage applications, the essential oil market is booming. Young Living turned to Syntegon (formerly Bosch Packaging) to triple its filler speed and improve yield.

Sovereign implemented serialization and aggregation on all three configurations of packaging lines at once.

CDMO Speeds its Line with Open-Source L4 Serialization System

With the serialization deadline approaching, Sovereign Pharmaceuticals implemented open-source software that allows the company to make their own changes and improve packaging efficiency.

The new Robust RFID-Label from Schreiner MediPharm ensures reliable end-to-end functionality of the RFID chip.

At Pharmapack, Schreiner MediPharm to Showcase New Robust RFID Pharma-Label and Supply Chain Security Solutions

Visit Schreiner MediPharm at Pharmapack in Paris, Feb. 5-6 at Hall 7.2, Booth D46

Vital Proteins Collagen Options

Rotary Filler Helps Keep Pace With Booming Collagen Market

To keep up with skyrocketing demand for its collagen powders, Vital Proteins turned to Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery and its rotary filler. It boosted production from 20 to 100 plastic canisters a minute, also improving safety and ease of operation.

Auto injector systems like the OPTIMA AIM from OPTIMA automation can subsequently be scaled from semi-automatic to fully automatic processes. They are flexible enough to use for injectors from various manufacturers.

Precision and flexibility: Assembly machines for pen and auto injectors

OPTIMA automation at Pharmapack 2020.

Tessy Plastics expands plant for medical product assembly

Tessy Plastics Expands its South Plant—Elbridge Facilities

The company announced their expansion of warehouse space in one of their manufacturing facilities in Upstate New York. The expansion is planned to be part of the “South Plant” located in Elbridge, New York.

The Epson SurePress L-6534VW digital label press enables high-speed printing for label converters.

Epson’s Newest UV Digital Label Press for High-Speed, High-Quality Label and Packaging Printing is Now Available

SurePress L-6534VW Functionality is on Display at Epson’s Package Printing Demo Center in California.

Shown here is a corrugated case of 30 cartons just before the flaps are closed and sealed.

Sanofi Stick Packs Run at 800/min

Dual-filler liquid stick pack line for antacids and analgesics includes an innovative robotic transfer concept that plays a big role in enabling throughput of 800 packs/min.