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Celebrating 20 years in healthcare product packaging

Our award-winning editorial team will go back in time to recap the biggest developments in pharma & medical device packaging

Our award-winning editorial team will go back in time to recap the biggest developments in pharma & medical device packaging

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Plan to Attend Pharmapack North America

June 18-19, 2013 ~ Philadelphia, PA

June 18-19, 2013  ~  Philadelphia, PA

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2013 Visionary Awards | Philadelphia, PA

2013 Visionary Awards | Philadelphia, PA

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Technology on Display at Pharmapack North America

Two-day event focuses on drug-delivery and packaging technologies and the role they’ll play in patient safety and product traceability.

Pharmapack North America will take place June 18-19 in Philadelphia. The exhibition will bring together exhibitors offering blister packaging, closures, bottles, cardboard packaging, labeling, printing technologies, components and subassemblies, contract manufacturing, traceability and anticounterfeit technologies, dispensing systems, drug-delivery devices and components, and injectable technologies and components. Read below for a preview of the exhibition and a few highlights from the conference.

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Pharmapack North America: Protect Today’s New Drugs against Contamination

Today’s pharmaceuticals are increasingly being delivered via novel routes, and many are designed for patients to use when treating themselves. “Drug products are undergoing design revisions, giving changing patient populations user-friendly options,” explains Don Singer, Global Lead Quality Manager, Microbiology R&D, GlaxoSmithKline. “It is not just pills and tablets any more. We are seeing many inhalable and intranasal products, and parenterals are no longer just delivered directly by standard syringes and from vials, especially in the oncology field.

2012 Compliance Packages of the Year Announced by HCPC

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC) awarded the winners of its annual Compliance Package of the Year competition at RxAdherence 2013, the organization’s annual conference on patient adherence and compliance prompting packaging issues.
Named 2012 Compliance Package of the Year, Avive from MWV Healthcare, is a patient-customized, multi-medication, 30-day dosing system.

From the Editors' Desk

American Airlines Cargo Earns DHL Recognition

DHL Global Forwarding (DGF, Bonn, Germany) has presented the Airfreight Security Partnership Award to American Airlines Cargo Division (Forth Worth, TX) for work in the area of air transport security. It is the first time the award has been awarded...
Videojet to Acquire Wolke Inks & Printers

In September, Videojet announced that it had agreed to acquire Wolke Inks & Printers GmbH, a provider of thermal ink-jet systems. Wolke systems have been widely used in pharmaceutical applications for applying variable, 2-D bar codes.

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Follow Medtronic's Lead from Last Year and Enter IoPP's AmeriStar Awards

The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) invites companies to submit entries into its annual AmeriStar package competition. Entries submitted before December 14 receive an entry fee discount. The entry deadline is January 14, 2010.

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New Rexam Healthcare Evolves

Global consumer packaging company Rexam is consolidating its three healthcare packaging businesses : Rexam Pharma, Primary Packaging, and Prescription. The new Rexam Healthcare will be headed up by Marc Haemel, the current head of Rexam Pharma. During...
Berry Plastics Corp. to Acquire Pliant Corp.

Berry Plastics Corp. has announced plans to acquire in excess of 99.99% of the common stock of Pliant Corp. upon the emergence of Pliant from bankruptcy. Pliant will remain separately capitalized as an unrestricted subsidiary of Berry.