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Ask the Experts

Join the discussion on COLD CHAIN with Bill Mayer.

Join the discussion on COLD CHAIN with Bill Mayer.

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Trends Shift in Sample Packaging

Sophisticated sample kits play a crucial role in delivering a consistent and customer-centric brand experience.

 

Sophisticated sample kits play a crucial role in delivering a consistent and customer-centric brand experience.

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Serving a Changing Industry

Vendors are helping meet the demands of evolving regulations and a challenging marketplace.

Vendors are helping meet the demands of evolving regulations and a challenging marketplace

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Striving for Consumer Impact

OTC designs convey messages of convenience.

OTC designs convey messages of convenience.

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Bayer Introduces New Bayer Aspirin and Aleve Bottles

The packaging system for Bayer Aspirin and Aleve features a new oval-shaped bottle and and user-friendly cap.

The packaging system for Bayer Aspirin and Aleve features a new oval-shaped bottle and and user-friendly cap.

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When Brilliance Matters

Tube manufacturer Plastube has invested in material and printing innovations to make your tubes stand out.

Tube manufacturer Plastube has invested in material and printing innovations to make your tubes stand out.

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Devising Sterile Packaging Solutions

With resources stretched tight, medical device manufacturers turn to suppliers for added support.

With resources stretched tight, medical device manufacturers turn to suppliers for added support.

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Seeing More Green with a Greener Solution

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturers can save money on cold-chain transport through reusable solutions.

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturers can save money on cold-chain transport through reusable solutions.

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Working toward Cold-Chain Standards, Certification

At the upcoming International Transport Packaging Forum, attendees will become familiar with emerging best practices in temperature control.


ISTA’s International Transport Packaging Forum will be held March 29–April 1, 2010, at Disney World in Orlando Florida. During the forum, ISTA will be presenting important new ISTA Standards relating to the qualification of temperature-sensitive-products packaging solutions. The results of two major projects that took place over the past couple of years will be presented, along with a certification program:

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From the Editors' Desk

  • CSafe Facility Receives FAA Approval

    CSafe LLC, a provider of active container solutions for temperature-sensitive airfreight, announces the approval of its manufacturing facility in Dayton, OH, by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the production of the company’s AcuTemp RKN electrical heating and cooling air cargo container. Prior to the approval of the Dayton location, the units were manufactured and released into the world-wide marketplace from the company’s FAA-approved Seattle, WA, location.

  • ITW Trans Tech Offers Variable-Color Digital Printers

    ITW Trans Tech (Carol Stream, IL) has introduced the InDecs UV Single Pass printers and the InDecs UV Flatbed printers for fast, full-color and variable product marking and decorating for medical device, personal care, and other packaging applications. 

  • Counterfeit Surgical Mesh Found

    FDA has issued a warning to healthcare providers about counterfeit surgical mesh being distributed in the United States under the C. R. Bard/Davol brand name. To date, investigations have identified four product sizes as counterfeit flat sheet polypropylene surgical mesh:

  • CCL Industries Acquires Australian Healthcare Label Company

    CCL Industries Inc. announced today that it has acquired Purbrick Ltd, a privately held company based in Melbourne, Australia. Purbrick supplies patient information leaflets and pressure-sensitive labels to global pharmaceutical customers located in Australia.

  • Chesapeake Goes 3-D

    Chesapeake (Bucks, United Kingdom) is offering its customers in healthcare and other sectors a paperboard concept that can provide a 3-D quality to any package. Impressions is formed by using a low-energy process for forming a paperboard material into distinctive shapes.

    This exciting development can help promote a brand through representations of tactile bubbles on a tube to replicating the distinctive shape of a bottle or jar. Impressions can also be formed into a pod to hold a liquid or paste, offering a more environmentally responsible alternative to plastic packaging.