Compact cartoner and labeler offer speed and flexibility for Track & Trace requirements

Marchesini Group's MA 80 cartoner for vials, blisters and more reaches speeds of up to 120 cartons per minute while the BL A420 CW labeler features an integrated load cell for accurate positioning and checkweighing in a compact footprint.

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Thomas Engineering Joins IMA Active

IMA has finalized in May the acquisition of the business operated under the trade name “Thomas Engineering”, a USA leading player in the tablet-coating equipment industry based in Elgin, Illinois.

Spee-Dee Packaging Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, a second-generation, family-owned company, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Check out the links to our coverage of the 2021 PDA Annual Meeting. While the live event has passed, the event site is full of on-demand content covering pharmaceutical filling, supply chain considerations, vaccine manufacturing, and more through May 16.

2021 PDA Annual Meeting: Trend Roundup

The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) virtual conference offered plenty of new perspectives in aseptic filling, flexible facilities, and more.

The TipFil Syringe Filler utilizes a piston mechanism that draws the needle back via the plunger, the amount of drug filled being dictated by the distance the plunger is pulled back.

TurboFil Benchtop Syringe Filler for Compounding Pharmacies

TipFil mimics manual syringe filling technique in single or dual operation, offering expedience and consistency for a variety of infeed scenarios.

Robots for Partition, Vial and Leaflet Loading.

Packaging Line for Vaccine Vials Meets Urgent Demand for Production

The end-of-line system received up to 150 vaccine vials/min, producing 15 ten-pack cartons/min. ESS integrated a customer-supplied serialization system to track unique codes on the vials and cartons throughout the packaging line.

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Wet Wipes Folding Machines

Paper Converting Machine Co. redesigned its Rx200 and Mako Clipper wet wipes folding machines to safely operate with a higher alcohol content, measuring as much as 70%.

Steriline designed an auger filling head equipped with a customized screw shape added to the PVFCM50 to protect product integrity

Bess Pro Creates Small Batch System for Powder Filling Line

Turnkey system to improve vial filling from manual and lab-scale to up to 200 vials/min provided in only 10 months despite the pandemic.

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Brenton and Orion Ramp up Production to Support Operation Warp Speed

Brenton and Orion responded to their customers’ needs by expediting the design and building of end-of-line packaging and stretch-wrapping systems as part of Operation Warp Speed.

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Counting System Achieves High Speeds

Is suitable for a variety of products

NR Instant Produce PCL Leverages V-Shapes Sachet Packaging for Continued Growth

Four V-Shapes ALPHA lines enable the company to manufacture non-food products for domestic and international distribution and to differentiate itself in the global marketplace.

Versynta FFP can be easily converted to different container types such as vials, syringes and cartridges, as well as different filling systems including single-use solutions.

Syntegon: Modular Small Batch Systems for Liquid Pharmaceuticals

Versynta FFP, Flexible Filling Platform, offers a unique transport system and safety for vials, syringes, and cartridges.

ESS Technologies supplied three Model VC30 cartoners to create a complete COVID-19 test kit packaging line.

COVID-19 Test Kit Cartoning Line Increased Productivity to Meet Urgent Testing Needs

ESS Technologies supplied three Model VC30 cartoners to create a complete COVID-19 test kit packaging line, increasing the manufacturer’s production capacity when it was critically needed.

SencorpWhite and Urania Engineering Announce Partnership

SencorpWhite and Urania Engineering developed a strategic partnership that will link Urania’s engineering solutions with SencorpWhite’s technical expertise and broad service capabilities in medical heat sealers.

Syntegon’s newest cartoner, Sigpack TTMD, combines core components of the TTM platform with one or more seamlessly integrated Delta robot cells – this allows flexible packaging of different products.

Syntegon: Cartoner with Integrated Delta Robots

Sigpack TTMD—designed for flexibility in product feeding—features flexible product presentation thanks to flat or on-edge carton loading as well as patented tool-less format changeover for vertical restart.

Stevanato Group is also adopting a personalized after-sales approach designed to better address the full life cycle of its range of equipment.

Stevanato Group Launches Global Network After-sales Service Offering for Technologies and Manufacturing Equipment

Offering includes full lifecycle management via the newly established SG after-sales department, with customized ongoing customer service that also leverages digital technologies.

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Cannabis Packaging System

Spee-Dee’s automated cannabis jar filling system can fill up to 40 jars/min per. A dual tare gross weighing system checks jar tare weight and gross weight at high speeds.

The acquisition of Cosmatic will enable the expansion of the Group's expertise in a segment that uses some of the most complex technologies in the cosmetics world.

Marchesini Group opens its Beauty Division and acquires Cosmatic

Acquisition will expand the company’s expertise through Cosmatic’s complex technology for the creation of lipsticks.

Marchesini Group: Continuous Motion Cartoner

Continuous motion high speed horizontal cartoner is designed for life science applications.

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Aphena’s 500,000-Square-Foot Expansion in Tennessee Nears Completion

Facility includes 10 high-speed bottling lines to start.

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Coval: A Vacuum Chamber for Gripping Protective Masks

The CVGM series mini vacuum chamber is designed to handle light and porous objects, such as protective masks, but also fabric or leather cut-outs.

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Provider of end-of-line packaging and technology partner to Pfizer, Robopac, will be packaging and transporting the vaccine.

Robopac's Part in the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

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Theta line comprised of: two Theta machines, two R80C counting and stacking units, two SC80 continuous motion synchronizing robots, and a continuous-motion cartoning machine.

Complete Line for Pharmaceutical Powder Sachets

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The capper’s technology and parallel belts are used to reduce the expense of making and storing change parts for most bottles.

TurboFil: Linear Chuck Capper with Precision Torqueing & Parts-free Changeover

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Pharmaceutical Liquid Filling Monobloc with Dual-Weight Verification

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In the compact TF1pro blister machine, a vacuum arm lifts ‘good’ blisters, precisely lowering them to the transfer actuator. Another key safeguard: an upper seal plate that retracts when web motion stops to prevent unnecessary heat exposure.

The new machine platform offers complete versatility: High performance, flexible formats and functional modules, including the OPTIMA Zero L1 for feminine hygiene and light incontinence products.

Modular Platform for Healthcare Manufacturing

Optima's new Zero machine platform offers extreme flexibility in packaging for a range of products in one system, including feminine hygiene and light incontinence products.