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Materials
PCI invests in Packaging's Future
Drug delivery developments and pending serialization requirements justify this contract packager’s capital equipment, facility, and personnel investments.
July 22, 2013
This photo shows the new Packaging Coordinators, Inc. signage at the company's Rockford, IL, facility.
Materials
CDC, UPS comment on vaccine delivery to Laos
A Q&A with Centers for Disease Control’s Dr. Joseph Bresee and Dimitri Zacharenko of UPS on shipping 100,000 influenza vaccines 5,000 miles in temperature-sensitive conditions.
July 10, 2013
This photo shows a combination of a PharmaPort 360TM controlled temperature container and UPS Temperature True® services helped protect this vaccine shipment to Laos.
Materials
CDC, UPS deliver temperature-sensitive flu vaccines to Laos
Nearly 100,000 influenza vaccines in prefilled syringes travel more than 5,000 miles in just three days, maintaining a 3° to 7° C temperature range.
June 20, 2013
Photo shows a flu vaccine shipment within a temperature-controlled container.
Pharmaceuticals
A reprieve from California e-pedigree?
House and Senate serialization bills could push back packaging line expenditures, but wouldn’t do much to counter pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
June 17, 2013
BD recently entered the pharmaceutical industry with a new line of generic prefilled injectable products called BD Simplist. One of the first two drugs launched is BD Simplist™ Metoclopramide Injection, USP. Both its outer package and the inner container are printed with a 2D barcode and with the NDC, serial number, lot number, and expiration date 'human readable.'
Packaging/Filling
Teva maximizes efficiency in minimal space
Unscrambling equipment provider tailors machinery for flexibility, efficiency, and to meet future track-and-trace requirements.
June 12, 2013
The Servo-controlled Rotary Pocket (SRP) bottle unscrambler features patented rotary pockets and provides speed, precision, and expandability.
Materials
Pharmaceutical serialization: Should you wait?
Exclusive Healthcare Packaging survey reveals half have yet to begin serialization projects, and more than 25% don’t plan to spend money on serialization this year!
May 30, 2013
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Materials
Medicine kit pack rides Coca-Cola crates to save lives in Zambia
Unique packaging and distribution system from ColaLife and pi global earns top honors in the 25th Anniversary of the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation program.
May 17, 2013
ColaLife package components
Traceability/Serialization
Putting A Face on Serialization
Astonishing results from a global survey on funding, progress, team building and pitfalls faced by the pharmaceutical community.
May 16, 2013
Materials
Printing technology helps Chinese firm meet that country's product identification requirements
Hailong Machinery Group uses thermal ink-jet technology to print high-density, high-resolution bar codes and text on primary and secondary packaging.
April 30, 2013
A preprinted pharmaceutical carton showing the GS1-128 bar code (on right, with 20 digits) required by China’s PIATS program is printed by RSI printheads using HP’s TIJ (thermal ink-jet) 2.5 cartridge technology. HP’s TIJ 2.5 can print at resolutions up to 600 dpi. RSI optimizes bar-code resolution and print-cartridge life using patent-pending Variable DPI and nozzle-flipping features. Hailong incorporated RSI’s HP-based printers into its track-and-trace system for PIATS.
Pharmaceuticals
UPS tour highlights HealthPack’s opening day
Tour of the UPS World Hub and Healthcare Logistics facilities in Louisville showcases the 5.2 million sq-ft automated express sorting facility that can process 416,000 packages and documents/hr.
March 12, 2013
UPS Louisville
Pharmaceuticals
It's controlled room temperature time
Regulators and internal quality personnel are looking more closely at maintaining temperature-sensitive drugs in the 15° C to 25º C range.
December 26, 2012
Medical pack
Materials
Cold chain outsourcing growth anticipated in Asia, Latin America
Bayer Healthcare project manager discusses emerging markets for pharmaceutical logistics and distribution outsourcing.
December 5, 2012
Air shipment
Labeling/Printing
R.I.P. for RFID?
The global market for RFID technologies is more than $6 billion a year—but healthcare comprises only a small percentage of that number. Here’s a look at RFID’s role in the healthcare packaging sector.
November 8, 2012
RFID refrigerator
Pharmaceuticals
Advice for getting started with pharma serialization
The first thing manufacturers should do is: Hurry! But there's more...
November 6, 2012
Materials
Cutting through cold chain confusion
Global harmonization efforts involve complexities such as meeting country-specific regulatory needs and optimizing shipping logistics and packaging—all while focusing on the patient.
November 2, 2012
Hp 22131 Cold Chain1
Packaging/Filling
Anatomy of a high-speed pharmaceutical line installation
Contract packager Praxis Packaging Solutions’ new tablet-filling and packaging line includes an unscrambler, counter-filler, checkweigher, capper, induction sealer, retorquer, and labeler.
November 1, 2012
Praxis line
Temp Control/Cold Chain
Temperature-controlled shipper
April 28, 2008
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