Packaging and Distribution

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

Recipharm has completed a serialization project for China on behalf of one of its customers.

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

Rommelag's all-electric aseptic blow-fill-seal packaging system encapsulates the filling point and can be installed in a cleanroom.

A horizontal flow wrapper separates vials and individually packs them at high speed using a long-dwell sealing system with ultrasonic or heat-sealing technology.

Comar's 18-mm SecureCap child-resistant closure for eye drops and nasal sprays meets US Consumer Product Safety Commission for products containing 0.08 milligrams or more of imidazolines.

Child-resistant packaging requirements for products containing a specified imidazoline will come into effect June 10, 2015.

A guidance document published just before the Jan. 1, 2015 deadline adds a four-month grace period.

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

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

Optel Vision, a Canadian company specializing in track-and-trace and vision inspection solutions for manufacturing industries, announced that its facility in Limerick, Ireland is now opened to serve customers across Europe.

CDMO Vetter announced the addition of a new flexible serialization service, introduced in response to stricter packaging regulations calling for drugs to be serialized as a means to fight counterfeits.

The Baxter recall in the US of one lot of highly concentrated potassium chloride is due to a mislabeled overpouch.

New child-resistant packaging designs meet regulatory requirements, and consumer research into child-resistant closures continues.

Cryopreserved shipments are monitored with real-time tracking and intervention services.

Contract Packaging Resources issued a voluntary recall of naproxen sodium tablets because some cartons contain bottles of ibuprofen.

Packaging machines, coding equipment, inspection and data capture systems, material handling, controls, and software must work together in a serialization system.

The intermittent cartoner can be equipped with a variety of in-feed systems and can handle different package formats and closure options.

Monitoring device uses thermal imaging to inspect 100% of sachets and pouches.

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

To achieve the high quality standards required for critical defects in pharmaceutical glass syringes, a combination of visual and camera-based inspection technologies are used.

InnoPack, which runs alongside CPhI Worldwide in Paris Nord Villepinte, France, is specially focused on pharmaceutical packaging. This is the place where companies gather to showcase their latest innovations and technologies in packaging. In this article, Martin Dallas from Essentra explains the role of innovative packaging technologies.

GS1 publishes a healthcare industry guideline describing how to implement GS1 standards to support requirements of the 2013 US Drug Supply Chain Security Act.

The EdgeTRAC software Print, Apply, and Verify module from ROC IT Solutions can be used to implement serialization in manual packing operations.

Use of temperature-controlled packaging is increasing with the growing need for cold-chain protection.

A semi-automatic case packer from Omega Design and Brazil's Grupo Tecnor offers unit-level serialization capabilities.

Kurt Lumsden, Director, eCDS Client Services at PAREXEL Informatics, discusses the use of interactive response technologies in investigational product expiry management.

The pharmaceutical industry has traditionally used glass as a primary material for containment systems due to a variety of characteristics that enable generally safe and efficient drug storage. However, there are many risks associated with glass.

Travtec, a packaging line solutions specialist, has opened a second facility close to its Leigh, Lancashire headquarters. This move is part of an investment to expand the company?s operations to meet continuing demand for its systems, particularly as the pharmaceutical industry prepares for the current and forthcoming track and trace legislation, including the 2017 European Falsified Medicines Directive.

PharmaChk, a portable device being developed to detect substandard medicines, receives $2-million grant.