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Materials
Handling toxic drugs: a simple packaging fix
Broken vials, shattered glass and exposure to toxic contents are every drug handler's nightmare. A relatively simple fix from Iwata improves safety for healthcare workers and others.
October 28, 2015
Iwata VPP series help to minimize the risk of vial breakage.
Pharmaceuticals
Alternatives to Barex take on nicotine in permeability tests
Testing is the key to finding and testing alternatives to Barex for the sealant layer in transdermal patch constructions, say Bemis scientists.
October 26, 2015
Testing is the key to finding and testing alternatives to Barex® for the sealant layer in transdermal patch constructions, say Bemis scientists.
Pharmaceuticals
Collaborative Approach Beats Trial-and-Error
Theoretical packaging engineer “James” received design and prototyping help at Klöckner’s new kp i.center. What can the center do for you?
October 22, 2015
Klöckner's new state-of-the-art facility opened earlier this year, and is home to kp Pharmaceutical Film Division’s newly expanded BlisterPro® XCEL suite of consulting, design, stability and prototyping services.
Materials
Flexible ‘Kit Yamoyo’ pack counters diarrhea in developing countries
U.K. charitable organization ColaLife teams with Amcor Flexibles to produce flexible package kit now working to battle childhood diarrhea in Zambia.
October 21, 2015
ColaLife has partnered with Amcor Flexibles to develop a lightweight Flexi-pack, or sachet, now being distributed in remote areas within Zambia to help battle childhood diarrhea.
Materials
Delivering what patients need next
Award-winning Multipack carton from supplier-partner Rondo-Pak helps provide safer clinical trials for F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG.
October 20, 2015
MANUAL PACKING. An operator places a glass vial into the clinical trials carton.
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.
Robotics/Automation
GSK to standardize on automation
GlaxoSmithKline has selected Siemens as a strategic partner providing technology for manufacturing and R&D sites worldwide.
September 10, 2015
Photo from GSK
Materials
Assessing trends in temperature-sensitive biologic shipments
Mike Rice, President & CEO, BioLife Solutions, Inc., discusses the role of a smart shipping container and a related cloud-hosted ‘cold chain’ management app.
August 31, 2015
BioLife customers receive one evo shipper per subscription.
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.
Package Design
Microdermis launches Provodine in award-winning packaging
Ampac’s seven-layer laminate provides package integrity, barrier, portability, and dispensing functionality for this next-generation infection control product.
August 6, 2015
Next-generation infection control product Provodine cream includes aggressive chemical compounds that were addressed by an award-winning seven-layer flexible packaging structure for the product’s 3-mL packette shown here.
Inspection
Particle inspection equipment delivers savings, benefits
Custom particle inspection labeling machine with camera-based inspection set to be operational at a pharmaceutical company by late 2015.
July 27, 2015
Overall with remote inspection table for two operators.
Labeling/Printing
On the front lines of serialization
Successful implementation requires interconnecting packaging equipment, materials, and components so they are dependent upon each other.
July 24, 2015
Seen here is a Weiler RL-420 labeler with X-3 label head and Domino laser printer.
Pharmaceuticals
DMFs can provide medical and pharmaceutical packaging benefits
Although not required by law or FDA regulation, Drug Master Files provide information about facilities, manufacturing, processing, packaging, and storage of drugs to support New Drug Applications.
July 22, 2015
Plastics scientists work to meet medical packaging standards and FDA requirements.'
Pharmaceuticals
Kitabis Pak wins American Package Design award
Packaging uses complementary colors to indicate that its inhalation product is designed to be delivered by its nebulizer.
July 13, 2015
Packaging uses complementary colors to indicate that its inhalation product is designed to be delivered by its nebulizer.
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.
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