The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
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08-Jun-2010 - The Consortium for the Advancement of Patient Safety (CAPS) says research shows that USP plans to restrict printing on pharmaceutical vial ferrules and caps are “ambiguous and vague.”
08-Jun-2010 - Increasing customer demand for integrated and flexible systems were the drivers behind developing new vertical flat pouch equipment for packing a range of free-flowing goods including granulates and powders, said Bosch Packaging Technology.
08-Jun-2010 - LGR Emballages, has announced a substantial investment in three Speedmaster XL 105 presses that the French packaging group hope will improve its current short-run productivity for pharmaceutical packaging.
07-Jun-2010 - Nampak Europe is to invest €4.5m ($5.4m) in a new purpose-built factory to replace its Wolfen facility in a move to reduce product costs in the northern European arm of the business.
01-Jun-2010 - Ampac Flexibles continues to utilise its High-Speed (HS) Laminate technology by launching its laminate films – a product, which the makers claim will heat seal at temperatures 40 degrees lower than standard laminate materials.
31-May-2010 - A trio of robots that can cope with the demands of vaccine handling and its packaging is ushering in new automation know how as part of a growing army of pharmaceutical production robotics.
26-May-2010 - Videojet has partnered with Systech to help companies meet emerging regulations by introducing track and trace equipment to the Brazilian market.
25-May-2010 - Sepha has introduced EZ Blister II to meet rising demand from India, China and South America for an affordable, mobile blister packaging machine for clinical trial use.
18-May-2010 - A 2D barcode system introduced to track drugs in Turkey crashed the day after it came online, according to Today’s Zaman .
11-May-2010 - A US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) advisory panel has issued recommendations intended to improve drug compliance and minimise misuse by standardising prescription medication labels.
06-May-2010 - A track and trace packaging system designed to integrate into existing operations, bringing companies into compliance with new regulations, has been launched by Crest Solutions and Eisai Machinery.
04-May-2010 - LyondellBasell announced Friday it had emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy under the ownership of a new parent company.
04-May-2010 - Demand for high-tech packaging, H1N1 vaccine products and drug delivery technologies drove growth in Q1 says West Pharmaceutical Services.
27-Apr-2010 - US drug packaging firm Comar says acquisition of Universal Container Corp (Unicon) provides capacity for growth, particularly in key liquid medication delivery device market.
20-Apr-2010 - Sandoz will buy generics firm Oriel Therapeutics, adding the US company’s FreePath delivery system and Solis multi-dose dry powder inhaler to its respiratory drug technology portfolio.
19-Apr-2010 - The EFPIA has hailed its 2-D data matrix anti-counterfeiting pilot scheme as a success and hopes to convince governments and supply chain actors of benefits of the approach.
15-Apr-2010 - Becton Dickinson (BD) says its new Hungarian plant will be operational this year and producing more than 500m pre-fillable glass syringes by 2015.
14-Apr-2010 - “Good business development” in the pharma and “slow spending” in the cyclical cosmetics and life sciences sectors dominated Gerreshimer’s performance in the first quarter of 2010.
13-Apr-2010 - Chesapeake has acquired a leading Polish label and carton operation in a bid to expand its share of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) market.
08-Apr-2010 - Amcor Flexibles has expanded its drug packaging capacity with the installation of a new blown-film production line at its facility in Mundelein, Illinois, US.
07-Apr-2010 - German glassmaker Gerresheimer has set up a new sales office in Russia and says growth in country’s drug packaging market is strategically important.
06-Apr-2010 - Unilife has initiated a 24/7 manufacturing cycle at its facility at Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, US after it received marketing clearance for its Unitract 1ml insulin syringes from the US FDA.
31-Mar-2010 - The Klockner Pentaplast Group has invested $37m (€27m) to expand PVC production capacity and add shrink-label film capabilities at its facilities in Thailand and the US.
31-Mar-2010 - A new nano-based coating that is claimed to reduce packaging waste is initially being targeted at the pharmaceutical sector but could be used in chocolate packaging as well, claims the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
31-Mar-2010 - The market for “nano-enabled” pharmaceutical packaging is growing 16.5 per cent a year and will be worth $8.1bn (€6bn) by 2014 according to new research by iRAP.