Hallie Forcinio

Award-winning drug packaging innovations include interactive cartons and multifunctional labels.

Innovations protect product quality, improve productivity, enhance sustainability, and simplify usage for patients and caregivers.

Innovations protect product quality, improve productivity, enhance sustainability, and simplify usage for patients and caregivers.

Science-based software and testing services expedite the material selection process and ensure blister packs deliver adequate barrier protection for solid-dosage forms without over-packaging.

Packaging technologies for serialization, parenteral products, and solid-dosage forms were displayed at INTERPHEX 2016.

Packaging innovations displayed at INTERPHEX include advanced materials, inspection systems, and filling systems.

INTERPHEX exhibitors will display software, printing, and packing equipment designed for serialization.

Science-based software and testing services expedite the material selection process and ensure blister packs deliver adequate barrier protection for solid-dosage forms without over-packaging.

Near-field communication labels communicate with consumers and support personalized medicine.

Expanded systems integration, serialization, and supply chain connectivity will enhance productivity and support counterfeit prevention.

Automation and ready-to-fill packaging formats are expected to grow in parenteral fill–finish operations.

Parenteral packaging of the future will include more automated lines, ready-to-fill packaging formats, and supply-chain transparency.

Integrated pharmaceutical blister-packaging equipment systems strengthen serialization and brand protection capabilities.

Manufacturers of parenteral drugs face challenges to increase efficiency, control particulates, control extractables and leachables, and eliminate product/package interactions; new containers and packaging equipment offer increased options.

Electronic pharmaceutical tablet counters meet demands for accuracy, flexibility, speed, compact size, easy cleanability, and quick changeover.

Checkweighers, metal detectors, x-ray inspectors, leak detectors, headspace analyzers, and optical inspection systems for packaging were demonstrated at INTERPHEX 2015.

Electronic pharmaceutical tablet counters meet demands for accuracy, flexibility, speed, compact size, easy cleanability, and quick changeover.

Optical inspection equipment for packaging was displayed at INTERPHEX 2015.

Innovations include multimedia packaging and improved filling systems.

Revisions to USP General Chapter may impact evaluation of sterile product package integrity.

Industry awaits the final revision of USP General Chapter and the impact it will have on the evaluation of sterile product package integrity.

Implementing serialization on a packaging line requires a complex integration of hardware and software and often requires that new and existing systems work together.

Temperature-controlled packaging trends include prequalified systems that simplify adoption, reusable systems that are more sustainable, and new temperature-monitoring technology.

A new machine is designed for inspection of prefilled syringes.

Careful selection of a contract packager should include interviews, surveys, and on-site visits.

Better barrier materials and software modeling streamline the blister-package design process.

Packaging film suppliers offer new materials and alternatives to Barex copolymers.

New materials and software modeling streamline the blister-package design process.

New pharmaceutical packaging equipment includes advances in automation and efficient systems.