From the Editors' Desk

Prent Launches New Light Weight Material For Rigid Packaging
Prent Corporation (www.prent.com) announced the availability of MEDEX 641, a medical grade thermoform rigid packaging material, at the MD&M West show in Anaheim, CA. 
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USP Readies Storage and Transport Guidance
 
After three years of work and extensive input from industry, FDA, and regulatory bodies globally, the United States Pharmacopeia Packaging, Storage, and Distribution Expert Committee (PSD EC) has completed work on USP General...
PharmaWorks a Company to Watch in Florida

PharmaWorks Inc. will be awarded in the 2011 Florida Companies to Watch program. The awards celebrate privately held second-stage companies headquartered in the state. Fifty companies from across Florida will be recognized at an awards gala on...
Smithers Rapra Adds Sukhy Toot to Focus on Extractables and Leachables Testing

Sukhy Toot has joined testing and research company Smithers Rapra to serve as product manager for medical and pharmaceutical services. In her new position, Toot will focus on building Smithers Rapra’s business that combines an expertise in...
A+ Secure Packaging LLC Welcomes Louis Weiner

A+ Secure Packaging LLC reports that Louis Weiner has joined the custom contract packager as vice president of sales and a LLC Member. Formerly an account director at Catalent Pharma Solutions, Weiner brings 27 years of experience in various roles in...
Niklas Prager succeeds Thomas Persson as Envirotainer CEO

Envirotainer’s Board of Directors appoints Niklas Prager as the company’s new CEO, effective Feb. 1, 2011. Mr. Prager, who is currently chairman of the board, succeeds Thomas Persson. Mr. Persson will remain with the company as senior...
Oystar Bundles U.S. Business

The Oystar Group has bundled its U.S. business under a single corporate umbrella. With immediate effect, the previous U.S. subsidiaries Oystar Jones (Covington, KY), Oystar USA (Edison, NJ) and Oystar Packaging Technologies (Davenport, IA) will now...
MD&M West, WestPack, and More

Exhibitors and attendees are set to gather at the Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, CA) for this year’s Medical Design & Manufacturing West conference and exhibition. For four days, the West Coast’s largest medical-related show will...
LF of America Highlighting Packaging for Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications at WestPack

LF of America Corp. (www.lfweb.us) will be on hand at WestPack 2011, February 8 – 10 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. WestPack. At Booth 5278, LF of America will be...
Plan for the International Transport Packaging Forum

With studies on the cold chain as well as shock and vibration, the event should interest pharmaceutical and medical device package engineers. ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) will hold its International Transport Packaging Forum April 18-...