White Papers

  • Three Ways to Enhance Pharmaceutical Packaging Line Performance
    This white paper focuses on optical character recognition (OCR) and its extensive use in pharmaceutical packaging for compliance with date and lot tracking regulations. Machine vision OCR helps manufacturers adhere to these mandates in an efficient and cost-effective manner, and can also improve line performance. Three common applications are discussed.
    Microscan Systems
  • Stickpack Packaging: Increasing Product Safety, Convenience and Cost-Savings
    On-the-go consumers have discovered the convenience of stickpack – the single-serving packaging format increasingly used by the food & beverage and nutritional products industries. As the popularity of this slim, sealed, tube-shaped format grows, the pharmaceutical and consumer health-care industries are now recognizing that this unique packaging option holds a wide range of benefits for their products. Beyond being an innovative, convenient design, stickpack offers them practical and cost-effective advantages.
    Ropack Inc.
  • Stick Packaging Delivers Portability, Convenience
    Stick packaging has been a popular format in Europe and Asia, and now interest is growing among consumers in North America. This flexible packaging format offers unit-of-use portability and convenience. In fact, in one of The Freedonia Group's latest U.S. market studies, "Tube & Stick Packaging to 2014—Market Research, Market Share, Market Size, Sales, Demand Forecast, Market Leaders, Company Profiles, Industry Trends," stick packaging is expected to show the strongest growth. Demand in the United States for both tube and stick packaging will rise 5.1% annually through 2014, Freedonia reports. Stick packaging advantages include "product differentiation, portability, and material savings compared to conventional single-portion pouches." Ropack, a leading contract packager for the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and nutraceutical markets, has recently expanded its capabilities to include stick packaging.
    Ropack Inc.
  • How to Select the Right Rapid Microbiological Testing Method
    There are many factors to keep in mind when choosing a Rapid Microbial Method (RMM). Given the plethora of RMMs on the market and their widely varying capabilities, it is critical to understand exactly what your company needs to perform most efficiently and effectively. When this drives the purchase decision, you will be able to implement the system and realize a return on investment quickly.
  • For Potent Product, Reliable Resource Is Required
    Probiotics, products that contain scientifically documented live microorganisms, are increasingly being used by consumers around the world. Market growth could potentially be significant, offering sizable opportunities to scientific-minded companies aware of the complexities of probiotics. To sustain and solidify consumer interest,probiotic manufacturers will need to deliver effective products based on science and produced through responsible manufacturing and packaging operations. The Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) reports that interest in probiotics is currently surpassing niche markets and entering the mainstream. Nearly 50% of consumers are aware of probiotics, finds NMI, and these consumers believe they offer a number of health system benefits. And clinical research has continued to grow steadily for more than a decade, with several studies demonstrating probiotic effectiveness. Probiotics are currently being marketed to help consumers maintain specific health structures or functions in digestion and immunity.
    Ropack Inc.
  • Establishing a State of Readiness: Mass Serialization as a Business Strategy
    As requirements for item-level serialization phase in around the world, drug manufacturers must begin equipping packaging lines at multiple facilities to be able to deliver uniquely coded products. To ensure regulatory compliance while minimizing total cost of ownership, manufacturers should look for flexible solutions that can be utilized companywide without custom deployments.
    Systech International
  • The Utilization of Design and Technology in Medical Thermoforming
    When it comes to packaging; design, function, technology, and cost savings are of the upmost importance. When Avail Medical's product development group was charged with significantly reducing the costs on an existing product line, they turned to Plastic Ingenuity for assistance. Avail was hoping to replace an existing injection molded assembly with a thermoformed part. Plastic Ingenuity's design and manufacturing technologies allowed them to deliver an innovative, cost effective solution. This White Paper, "The Utilization of Design and Technology in Medical Thermoforming" highlights the impact technology has on thermoformed packaging and products.
    Plastic Ingenuity Inc.