Interphex 2012 will be held at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Center on May 1-3, 2012. Headlining this event will be a series of keynote presentations presented by leading subject matter experts.
Schreiner MediPharm has been honored by the North American Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) with the “Innovator Award” for its latest generation of Needle-Trap, which features detachable label parts. Needle-Trap features an integrated safety mechanism that secures the needle quickly and safely after use. It can be incorporated into conventional labeling systems and is adaptable to the most common syringe types, the company reported in a press release.
Chesapeake Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Packaging has agreed to acquire Cortegra Group Inc. from Menasha Corp. Cortegra, a U.S. producer of leaflets and labels with two production facilities dedicated to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector, will add to Chesapeake’s existing three U.S. facilities and its global supply network.
Children's AccuDial has been named a 2011 Edison Awards winner. Children's AccuDial, a product line of AccuDial Pharmaceutical Inc., won gold in the Consumer Packaged Goods category, one of 12 categories honored by the Edison Awards. AccuDial Pharmaceutical Inc.'s corporate headquarters is in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Schreiner MediPharm (schreiner-medipharm.com) introduces a new multi-functional label solution for self-medicating autoinjectors and pens. The new label is equipped with a tamper-evident feature in the form of a perforation that provides assurance the autoinjector or pen was not previously opened and that it contains the correct drug.
The Klöckner Pentaplast Group has announced that it has begun production using its new global production capacity for transverse-direction oriented shrink label films, used primarily for full- or partial-body shrink-sleeve applications.
Part of kp’s global capacity expansion for shrink-label film, the new capacity is located at the company’s Rural Retreat manufacturing facility. Klöckner Pentaplast is the only PETG and PVC producer of shrink-label films with global manufacturing in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, the company reported in a press release.