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Section: Machinery > Packaging/Filling
Package Design
Bag making and sealing system
* Magnum-MD automatically forms and seals Tyvek, polyester, polyethylene, metallized and other barrier films including HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, PP, and nylon with a chevron seal
March 16, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Striving for 'end-of-line' packaging solutions
San Juan's Convention Center hosted the Feb. 1-2, 2007 Interphex Puerto Rico conference, with a keynote presentation delivered by Maridalia Torres, director of the San Juan district Food and Drug Administration office. One of the event's highlights was a session focusing on Packaging End-of-Line Solutions, or PELS. It involves OEMs and controls suppliers working together to assist manufacturers of life science products.
March 13, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Intermittent-motion cartoner
* Eclipse pharmaceutical machine operates at speeds to 90 cartons/min in a variety of carton sizes and styles
March 10, 2007
Packaging/Filling
End-user input critical to tray manufacturing
Defining the end-user /device maker's needs is the most crucial step of the entire thermoforming process, said MD&M West speaker Jason Crosby, medical business manager for thermoformer Plastic Ingenuity . Crosby's comments were made at a conference session Feb. 15 at the Anaheim Convention Center during the Medical Device & Manufacturing (MD&M West) show.
February 23, 2007
Regulatory
Clinical trials outsourced to China
Half the 1,200 clinical trials conducted by a dozen of the largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies were conducted offshore in 2005.
February 5, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Vacuum/gas flush tabletop heat sealer
* P-Series multiuse sealer is engineered for medical pouches and precision sealing applications allowing for both front-to-back and pass-through capabilities
January 27, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Disposable syringe aseptic fill and cap
* the intelliFILLER SFS fills and caps disposable syringes at speeds of 150 units/min, and accommodates different syringe sizes and fill volumes
January 20, 2007
Package Design
Checking up on healthcare packaging
Drug delivery devices, advances in combination products, and biologics/biopharmaceuticals will present both challenges and opportunities for packagers. New packages and drug delivery methods for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products are appearing on retail drug and grocery store shelves. (Part II of II)
January 15, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Diagnostic liquid filler/capper
* FF30 tabletop machine for vials and small bottles is for batch sizes between 100 to 2,000 units or more per day
January 12, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Powder and liquid filler/capper
* MB120 dual-pitch filler/capper can be designed to run liquids or powders based on several available product delivery systems
December 21, 2006
Packaging/Filling
Compact tablet line
* includes turntable, tablet and capsule counter, cotton inserter, metal detector, capper, labeler, heating system, and outfeed turntable
December 15, 2006
Nutraceuticals/Dietary
Custom branding clears up skincare's packaging
SkinMedica works with structural branding firm to transform its stock packaging look to create structure and design across its product line. "We are a cutting-edge company that has cutting-edge ingredients," says Josie Norine, product manager, cosmeceuticals, for Carlsbad, CA-based SkinMedica, Inc., maker of pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical dermatology products. "So we want to be the first in the marketplace to make a strategic change as far as packaging, and be a pioneer, but [our packaging was] pretty dated in the marketplace," for the products, which had been on the market five years.
December 14, 2006
Packaging/Filling
Programmable filling machine
* Helios is a linear, volumetric automatic filler with a brushless motor drive system that replaces a mechanical drive system
December 10, 2006
Contract Manufacturing & Packaging
Custom packaging design
Comar program offers design service to clients.
November 27, 2006
Adherence/Delivery
Contract packager first to launch CR/SF packaging system
Whippany, NJ-based healthcare contract packager TestPak unveils its child-resistant, senior-friendly line at an October open house. By the end of this year, says TestPak's Bill Eveleth, child-resistant blister packs produced on this new packaging line will be sold commercially in developmental quantities for prescription applications.
November 27, 2006
Packaging/Filling
Dispensing and packaging system
Maverick Enterprises Inc.'s Nutri-Pac is designed as a simple, easy-to-use automatic tablet mix and dispense center that allows individual customization of tablets into pouches.
November 10, 2006
Materials
GlaxoSmithKline to open new vaccine plant in France
To meet the growing demand for pediatric and adult vaccines, GSK is investing more than 500 million euros in a vaccine manufacturing plant to increase production in formulation, filling, freeze-drying, and packaging.
November 10, 2006
Packaging/Filling
Adjustable puck filling system
From TurboFil Packaging Machines, the UniPuck system uses a closed-loop tabletop chain conveyor to move adjustable carrier pucks through a series of workstations to fill and close even bottles that are unstable.
November 8, 2006
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