Package Design

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.

Abbott Laboratories has recognized Robinson Printing & Creative Media with its Supplier Excellence Award. This is the second consecutive year for Robinson to receive this award. Robinson Printing & Creative Media is a winner recognized for exceptional contributions to Abbott in 2010, and was chosen from more than 20,000 worldwide suppliers because of outstanding performance in supplying quality materials, equipment and services to Abbott.

The generic pharmaceutical company Alvogen Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.) introduces the AB-1 rated Nitroglycerin Transdermal Delivery System, which is available in patient-ready, 30-count cartons and includes several key packaging features designed to improve care. Some of these features are RSS barcoding on each individual unit; the smallest available patch sizes of any generic nitroglycerin system; and hypoallergenic, transparent patches.

The Hamburg-based Körber Group is buying the company Seidenader Maschinenbau GmbH (Markt Schwaben, Germany). Seidenader is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of inspection machines, software, and vision applications for pharmaceutical production. Körber AG is using this acquisition to boost its fast-growing Pharmaceutical Packaging Systems Division headed by Körber Medipak.
 

Currier Plastics Inc., a multidiscipline processor has continued to grow in the Packaging, Electronics, Medical and Instrumentation markets and has recently made additional investments to their Design & Engineering Department by adding a Next Engine 3 Dimensional Scanner system. The 3D scanner system gives the user the ability to scan any object and obtain highly accurate and measured data that can then be further developed into a workable model.

Anomatic Corporation announces its new high volume double anodizing process. This innovative process allows package designers new opportunities to create a fully anodized, highly decorative finish — previously an arduous task with limited production capability.
 

The Medical Design Excellence Awards program is accepting entries for its 2011 competition from companies and individuals worldwide involved in the design, engineering, manufacture, or distribution of finished medical devices or packaging products. The program is presented by Canon Communications, the leading producer of face-to-face, digital, print, and online business acceleration products for the worldwide medical device industry and sponsored by MD+DI magazine.