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Section: Machinery
Aseptic/Sterile
Navigating The Sterilization Transition
As the healthcare industry continues to move away from ethylene oxide for the safety of people and the planet, challenges are testing the collective resolve.
August 13, 2025
While some promise has been seen in the development of new sterilization modalities, there’s concern about how the cumulative fallout will affect business and patient safety.
Adherence/Delivery
Health Trends Reveal a Push for Convenience, Speed to Market, and AI-boosted Tech
Top trends in health reveal the benefits of leveraging AI and other new technologies.
August 11, 2025
AI-enhanced pharmaceutical solutions aim to accelerate workflow, enhance accuracy, and mitigate risks such as incorrect dosages or harmful drug interactions.
Medical device packaging
Column: Considering Sterility Across the Packaging Value Chain
Sterilization Packaging Manufacturers Council (SPMC)
New white paper series addresses transport and storage considerations for sterile packaging systems.
July 28, 2025
There are five key risk factors associated with the storage and handling of rollstock packaging materials and pSBSs. These include temperature, humidity, physical environment, protective measures, and time/equilibrium.
Regulatory
Bridging the Barcode Divide: Challenges in Medical Device UDI Implementation
GS1 US Barcode Assessment reveals that full UDI implementation is often impeded at the provider level.
July 2, 2025
The Barcode Assessment revealed that while most manufacturers are now labeling medical devices with barcodes containing the mandated UDI, healthcare providers aren’t consistently scanning those barcodes at the point of care.
Labeling/Printing
Metering System Solves Date Coding Woes for Olly Containers
To fix inconsistent date coding for Olly supplements, co-man MSI turned to a Morrison CHS metering system for accurate container placement.
May 19, 2025
A timing screw squares Olly containers over the date coder before releasing them down the conveyor 8.25 inches apart.
Machinery
Automation Unscrambles Bottling Chaos
Pace Packaging harnessed flexible automation in a versatile robotic unscrambling and orienting solution that delivers industry-leading throughput in an ultra-compact machine footprint.
February 11, 2025
Overhead view of the patent-pending in-motion vacuum transfer system feature on the VersaSort.
Machinery
Addressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations
Packaging and processing professionals provide insight into practices to address workforce limitations and barriers of potential solutions.
February 7, 2025
Adressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations
Aseptic/Sterile
AAMI Updates Materials Compatibility Guidance for EO, VHP, Other Modalities
Compatibility of materials in sterilized products is a critical aspect of successful device development.
January 8, 2025
Newly updated AAMI guidance addresses this issue by clarifying how sterilization affects products and packaging.
Medical Devices
Top Articles of 2024, #4: Breakthrough Med Device Sterilization Technology Uses Nitric Oxide
The #4 most clicked article of 2024: Not to be confused with laughing gas, this “molecule inside a polymer” is poised to offer safe sterilization of medical devices to kill microorganisms without the environmental issues brought by EtO sterilization.
December 31, 2024
Sterile State
Packaging/Filling
Top Articles of 2024, #8: Nonprofit Civica Installs New High-value Filling Lines for Essential Medicines
The #8 most clicked article of 2024: Civica is on a mission to deliver quality generic medicines—including insulin—at low cost.
December 24, 2024
For cartridges, the In Process Control (IPC) helps prevent losses during production.
Aseptic/Sterile
Top Articles of 2024, #9: Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk Invest Billions in North Carolina Manufacturing
The #9 most clicked article of 2024: Striving to meet the booming market demand for GLP-1 drugs, Lilly and Novo Nordisk are adding injectables manufacturing capacity—and around 1,600 jobs combined—in the cities of Concord and Clayton, NC
December 23, 2024
Novo Nordisk, Clayton, North Carolina, US. New production facilities announced 24 June 2024. To be completed in 2027-2029.
Traceability/Serialization
Future Trends In Healthcare Packaging: AI And IoT For Tracking And Monitoring
Popular areas of investment include connected wearable devices and implanted medical technologies, but these aren’t the only applications of IoT for healthcare.
December 10, 2024
RFIS on pharma
Machinery
Cannabis Distributor Supercharges Packaging Efficiency with Automation
A combination scale, bagger, checkweigher, and coding and marking operations accelerated packaging production efficiency to 300 parts per labor hour, up from 40 parts per labor hour.
December 4, 2024
lbs. distribution was founded in 2017 by a group of cannabis entrepreneurs with the goal of creating a robust and efficient supply chain of legal cannabis throughout California.
Machinery
Moving On From EO: Experiencing The Evolution of Today’s Sterilization Methods
As the medical device and pharmaceutical industries face pressure to phase out or move away from ethylene oxide, new sterilization trends are emerging.
November 25, 2024
Regardless of the sterilization method, minimizing bioburden is a significant aspect of patient safety.
Package Design
RRD Report: Amidst Inflation, Companies Adjust Design, Focus on Functionality, Safety and Sustainability
Packaging and label decision makers consider new appeal and materials as e-commerce grows.
November 19, 2024
The company’s third-annual survey of 300 packaging and label decision makers shows that with increased competition, along with inflation and rising costs of materials, many are paying specific attention to the core fundamentals of production protection and material composition.
Packaging/Filling
Why IMA Active Capsule-Filling Technologies Work Best For Probiotics
A clear answer from Dietary Pros., a custom manufacturer of probiotics and dietary supplements.
November 14, 2024
The dosing technology used on IMA capsule fillers creates a soft slug that keeps probiotics alive due to soft handling and minimal thermal impact.
Packaging/Filling
Robots Fill, Mix, and Cap Personalized Skincare Bottles in Mass Customization Play
Cosmetics and nutraceuticals, like this skincare line, are at the leading edge of hyper-personalization and batch-size-one packaging. SmartSKN is an interesting example using AI-driven data and inventory management to achieve mass packaging customization.
October 28, 2024
SmartSKN currently has five of these robotic filling/capping systems in its Beverly facility.
Aseptic/Sterile
IV Bags Market to Reach $3.4 Billion by 2034
Growth is attributed to the increasing demand for sterile packaging solutions, and an increasing shift toward non-PVC IV bags.
October 16, 2024
The IV Bag Market is set to witness significant growth over the next decade, driven by increasing demand for intravenous (IV) therapy across healthcare sectors.
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