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Pharmaceuticals
Industry Collaboration Sheds Light on Serialization
Serialization in pharma packaging is a complicated undertaking for anyone, but CMOs and their customers face additional challenges because responsibilities aren’t always clear-cut. A trend toward industry collaboration, even among competitors, is helping to shed light as companies share their successes and lessons learned.
December 2, 2015
An end-to-end view of a serialization compliance program. Source: Supply Chain Wizard, LLC.
Packaging/Filling
Conveyor Addresses Private-Label, Startup Production Applications
Machinery maker equips its newer lite-F filling machines with conveyor for pharmaceutical and cosmetic filling.
December 1, 2015
Groninger benefits from Rexroth’s VarioFlow plus, which is engineered to be a cost-effective conveyor solution.
Robotics/Automation
Medical device firm wins with barcode labeling software
CFR enterprise barcode labeling software helps QTS reduce risk, increase efficiency, and become compliant with UDI and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.
October 14, 2015
Minneapolis-based Quality Tech Services (QTS provides medical device packaging assembly, kitting, and packaging services.
Packaging/Filling
New technology creates new business opportunities
Sharp Packaging Solutions standardizes on tablet counting/filling and labeling equipment on bottling lines at its Allentown, PA, plant.
September 24, 2015
The Cremer CFS-622 Tablet Counter modules can be easily removed or added based on production requirements.
Medical Device/Packaging
Collaborative robots help double output
Faced with rising production costs and lower price demands from customers, Tegra Medical, a contract manufacturer of medical devices, automated key aspects of its production operations with small, collaborative robots.
September 15, 2015
A Universal Robot operates within a mini work cell at Tegra Medical.
Packaging/Filling
Capsule filler enhances Sharp Clinical Services' production
Machine’s in-process weight control system and tablet feeder provide ‘radical change’ to the company’s capsule production.
August 13, 2015
Machine’s in-process weight control system and tablet feeder provide ‘radical change’ to the company’s capsule production.
Robotics/Automation
Losan Pharma adds MES for solid dosage production
Contract manufacturer in Germany to interface Werum’s PAS-X MES. Once fully integrated, it will comprise a WMS and track and trace to address counterfeiting.
August 12, 2015
Stick-pack production at Losan Pharma.
Packaging/Filling
Digital printer ‘XAPS’ would-be counterfeiters
Digital carton printing company OTC Group helps its customers thwart counterfeiting and theft with Xerox tracking system.
July 24, 2015
XAPS shows a serial number reversed out of the grey bar in front, with an enlargement of microtext on the top flap of the carton.
Inspection
Not your grandparents’ clinical trial
Everyone from the FDA to professional associations are investing time, money, and resources into upping the stakes when it comes to clinical trials.
July 15, 2015
Sharp Clinical Services is expanding its storage and packaging facilities in the U.S.
Materials
Custom lighting illuminates blister packaging lines
Contract packager PCI uses on-off axis “tent” LED lighting to improve automated inspection of multiple pharmaceutical products in various reflective package formats.
July 9, 2015
A setup screen of PCI’s vision system looks at gel caps that are very light pink and nearly transparent. The pink areas show that the system is easily detecting gel caps with no background noise.
Materials
Robotic palletizing, pallet wrapping proves successful for Nephron
Equipment at Nephron’s South Carolina facility helps bring inhalation medications securely to market.
June 25, 2015
Nephron packages Albuterol Sulfate medication in a “carded” magazine of flexible plastic vials manufactured via a blow/fill/seal process.
Materials
Filling operations earn Facility of the Year Award
Boehringer Ingelheim sets new benchmark in biopharmaceutical production with filling and isolator equipment.
June 22, 2015
With the Bosch filling line, Boehringer Ingelheim can fill and close up to 400 containers/min, ranging from vials to single and double-chamber cartridges. Here, workers check the disposable tubes of the filling system.
Contract Manufacturing & Packaging
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Materials
Breaking the glass barrier in aseptic filling of parenterals
Advanced ADVASEPT™ technology eliminates glass particulates, surface delamination, reduces foreign particulates, breakage, and container weight for transportation and disposal.
March 18, 2015
This photo shows Catalent's three vial sizes as a family. Jim Butschli| Editor
Materials
Novartis benefits from flexible pharmaceutical filling line
Filling and packaging line in Cairo, Egypt accommodates different products and packaging formats.
February 23, 2015
BOTTLE CLEANING. To clean plastic bottles, each blowing nozzle from Bosch ionizes the blowing air, which neutralizes the electrostatic loads on the inner surface of the bottles and facilitates easy foreign particle removal.
Package Design
New equipment energizes Amway’s nutritional packaging
Eight checkweighers and six x-ray systems support canister, stick-pack and pouch packaging lines at Amway’s Nutrilite® facility in Ada, MI.
February 10, 2015
PACKAGE INSPECTION. Amway turned to Mettler-Toledo’s product inspection group for Hi-Speed checkweighers and Safeline x-ray inspection systems.
Medical Device/Packaging
Safer healthcare via medical innovation
Bobby Grajewski, President of Edison Nation Medical, talks about helping entrepreneurs bring medical innovations to commercialization, including the role of packaging.
January 14, 2015
Bobby Grajewski, President of Edison Nation Medical, talks about helping entrepreneurs bring medical innovations to commercialization, including the role of packaging.
Materials
Aseptic liquid filler produces for Zydus Cadila
A Macofar VF 18 aseptic liquid filler at Indian pharmaceutical company, produces sterile injectable products and vaccines into vials at speeds up to 300/min.
December 11, 2014
Continuous high-speed filling of sterile liquids.
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