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Packaging/Filling

Multipack shrink wrapper

Polypack Inc.

April 10, 2006

Packaging/Filling

Peristaltic filling systems

Flexicon America Inc. offers peristaltic filling systems for small- and medium-sized batches.

March 10, 2006

Adherence/Delivery

Compliance packaging: Tips from a contract packager

Creating compliance-prompting packaging is no easy task. Anderson Packaging uses the following practices to help its pharmaceutical customers. The need for compliance—or regimen—packaging, as well as packaging that combines two or more drugs, will be acute as the massive baby boomer generation ages and requires more prescription medications. • The package's structural design has to be intuitive, easy to open and operate. • The print needs to be large enough and offer enough visual contrast to be read. • If the package is a multipack that meters out multiple medications, its contents have to be filled in the correct sequence in the package. Failure in any of these steps could result in packaging that the patient can't read or open, or—worse—medicines being consumed in a regimen other than what the physician prescribed, or not at all. "Most of our customers use their own design agency," notes Justin Schroeder, Anderson Packaging's marketing and business development director, but with its own in-house package design team. "We can also come up with the design concept," Schroeder says.

March 10, 2006

Packaging/Filling

Surface treater

To prepare for a possible H1N1 pandemic, the Chicago Dept. of Public Health employed 100 insulated shippers to maintain refrigerated vials used to deliver 100,000 doses of the vaccine.

February 10, 2006

Contract Manufacturing & Packaging

Evaluating outsourcing and contract packaging

Product types, cost issues, and geography factor into the outsourcing decision Outsourcing of jobs to contract packagers (CPs) continues to be an important issue for many packagers of healthcare products. "I see continued outsourcing or contract packaging occurring due to the large number of start-up companies," believes Nancy St. Laurent, senior engineer of sterile facilities and packaging systems, Lockwood Greene. "These are mostly biotech companies, but also pharmaceutical companies." She believes that though many CPs may have the equipment to handle existing product packaging, "that might not be the case with toxic drugs that require isolation technology, or where there are other sensitive or controlled drugs. In those cases, companies will probably build their own facility with dedicated equipment." Dana M. Guazzo, Ph.D., president, of consulting firm RxPax LLC, adds, "In order to minimize costs, but still produce a quality product, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly relying on the specialized focus that contract packaging firms provide. Unfortunately, this doesn't always address the lack of expertise available to support companies at the developmental level."

January 10, 2006

Packaging/Filling

Multipack case packer

January 10, 2006

Packaging/Filling

Thermal seal checking system

December 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Medical tray sealer

Before potentially life-saving medical products and components make it into the hands of the medical staff or to the patient, they must be shipped from the manufacturer to a hospital or pharmacy by way of a distribution center.

December 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Six steps to achieving consistent induction seals in caps

Consumer product packaging managers frequently complain that their sealing process on induction seals in caps is not consistent. That can lead to waste or unhappy customers. Here are some simple steps that may resolve your problems: 1. Air gap: Make sure the air gap, the space between the top of the cap and the bottom of the sealing head, is set as required. 2. Torque: Torque all caps to the required level. Too much torque can be as troublesome as too little torque. 3. Sealing head alignment to conveyor: The sealing head must be parallel to the conveyor. The distance from the top of the conveyor belt to the bottom of the sealing head must be the same from one end to the other. So unless your conveyor is level, don't assume that the sealing head is level. 4. Bottle travel alignment to sealing head: Ensure that the path the containers travel is along the centerline of the sealing head. Only when the containers are guided along the centerline of the conveyor should the centerline of the sealing head run exactly above the centerline of the conveyor. 5. Line speed: Ensure that line speed is set at the required level and does not deviate significantly during a production run. 6. Power level: Set the sealing unit's power at the required level.

November 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Validatable medical tray sealer

Attention packagers in the healthcare business: Healthcare has entered a time of profound change. That's according to TRAX: Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Integrity, a conference held May 3-4 in Baltimore and produced by the Institute for International Research. The conference brought the following ideas to its audience:

October 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Vacuum conveyor

Summit, publishers of Packaging World and Healthcare Packaging magazines, will serve as a media partner for LogiPharma USA 2008, a pharmaceutical supply chain and logistics event. LogiPharma will take place Sept. 15-18, 2008 at Loews Philadelphia Hotel. Summit will also be a media partner at the 6th Annual Global Forum Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals, scheduled at the Philadelphia Convention Center will Sept. 22-25, 2008.

October 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Tf/f/s systems for medical kits

The task of securing the supply chain and the need to adopt a layered approach using overt and covert security features often seems overwhelming; companies don't know where to start or what technologies to invest in. That was a key message taken from anti-counterfeiting sessions at the 2008 Americas Technology Summit, an event focusing on brand protection and sustainability held in San Juan, Puerto Rico April 16-17. Americas Technology Summit was sponsored by National Label Co. and MWV .

October 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

FlexTab feeder

October 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Capsule/tablet weigher

Michael Becker, director of engineering, Pfizer GmbH, reported on a four-year project, "FAST," (Fully Automated Supply and Transport), recently completed at the firm's Freiburg, Germany plant. The plant produces tablets and capsules of Lipitor, Valoron and Neurotin for 80 different countries in a wide variety of package configurations. The highly automated, computer integrated plan helped the plant achieve OEE comparable with other industries, depending on the equipment measured.

September 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Dual-chamber cartridge filler

Tumi, Inc. is selling a kit for airline passengers that offers spill-proof bottles in a zippered bag. New York City-based Tumi uses O.Berk Co. PET bottles for its newest product, the Carry-On Essentials Kit. It is a response to the Transportation and Security Administration's (TSA) latest restrictions on what passengers can take with them aboard airplanes.

September 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Ultrasonic pouch sealer

Compliance with ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11607-parts 1 and 2 involves more than crossing items off of a checklist.

September 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Dispensing unit

Compliance responsibilities that were clearly outlined in section 4.4 of the current standard have been omitted from the new International Standards Organization (ISO) 11607-01. Therefore, confusion may arise over certain areas of responsibility such as: • Who should test the packaging suppliers' seals? • Who is responsible for validating package sealing equipment? • Who is responsible for evaluating the biocompatibility or other material characteristics such as microbial barrier properties?

August 10, 2005

Packaging/Filling

Robotic pouch handler

July 10, 2005

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