The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
30-Mar-2010 - Aluminium foil as a packaging solution is marking its centenary in 2010. Stefan Glimm, executive director of the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA), reflects on how this packing mainstay continues to build on its ability to provide the highest barrier protection properties while adapting to the needs of the new millennium.
23-Mar-2010 - Industrial glass maker Schott ended a “rather difficult” fiscal 2009 with a loss but says rise in drug packaging sales will help drive double-digit earnings growth in current financial year.
22-Mar-2010 - The shipping requirements of drugs means the TSA’s new law poses unique problems to the pharma industry, according to DHL, but experience of tight regulations should help companies achieve compliance.
22-Mar-2010 - Amcor has dismissed claims that it should pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over allegations it took part in a packaging price fixing cartel.
16-Mar-2010 - Fresenius Kabi has opened a temperature controlled, high-bay, fully automated warehouse near its manufacturing plant in Austria, according to its partner on the project.
11-Mar-2010 - US devices specialist MedPro Safety Products and Helvoet Pharma have teamed up to develop the former’s range of prefilled safety syringes (PFSS).
11-Mar-2010 - Stason Pharmaceuticals’ subsidiary Standard Chem and Pharm will act as primary distributor for the Unitract 1ml safety syringe in China, Japan and Taiwan under a five-year new deal with US delivery device maker Unilife.
08-Mar-2010 - Payne Security has acquired BP Secure Solutions, adding the UK firm's roster of adhesive security labelling technologies to its drug industry offering.
04-Mar-2010 - Fujifilm has introduced an anti-counterfeiting label, called ForgeGuard, which it claims is the first product with full colour images and text that can be checked using a viewing device.
03-Mar-2010 - Sanofi Aventis has paid Unilife €10m for exclusive rights to use its Unifill ready-to-fill (RTF) syringe for the delivery of anti-thrombotic agents and vaccines.
24-Feb-2010 - NanoGuardian has licensed its NanoEncryption technology to Capsugel, a division of Pfizer, for use as an anti-counterfeiting system on the company’s capsule-based medications.
24-Feb-2010 - The aging population is driving manufacturers to develop packaging that is easier to open, while still remaining child-resistant, but this can increase costs and affect sustainability, according to a director.
23-Feb-2010 - Helvoet Pharma is to build a €14m ($19m) rubber parenteral packaging component facility in India to meet rising demand for products made to international quality standards.
22-Feb-2010 - West Pharmaceutical Services reported strong fourth quarter results, underpinned by demand for H1N1 components, but still posted a dip in operating income for its 2009 financial year.
15-Feb-2010 - Companies are failing to protect their products with tamper evidence but the EU falsified medicine directive, plus the ease of implementation, will drive adoption, according to a director at Schreiner ProSecure.
11-Feb-2010 - Using intelligent compliance packaging in clinical trials can result in “huge cost savings” and this will ensure demand even during a period of cost-cutting, according to a sales manager at Stora Enso.
11-Feb-2010 - Gerresheimer expects pharmaceutical packaging sales to grow but says performance of “cyclical” cosmetics and life science businesses is more difficult to predict.
09-Feb-2010 - Berlin Packaging has agreed to acquire All-Pak, creating a combined company with annual revenues of $500m (€365m) and an expanded geographic, including Puerto Rico.
08-Feb-2010 - Greater production efficiency, flexibility and state-of-the art capabilities are benefits that lids and shrink sleeve manufacturer Nyco said it can offer after investing in a new hybrid printing press.
04-Feb-2010 - Schott AG has launched its InJentle syringe to improve the stability of highly sensitive drugs, which is a “major topic” for the company’s clients, according to a company director.
03-Feb-2010 - Biofem Pharmaceuticals and NAFDAC have launched an anti-counterfeiting pilot project in Nigeria, using a mobile authentication service (MAS) to validate if a medicine is genuine.
02-Feb-2010 - Global packaging giant Amcor today announced that its acquisition of Alcan Packaging had been completed as it spelled out what the move would mean for suppliers and customers.
02-Feb-2010 - Keller-Crescent has acquired Puerto Rico-based Lehigh Press to expand its capacity for producing pharmaceutical labels, inserts and outserts.
28-Jan-2010 - The global market for RFID products and services in the pharma industry will be worth $884m (€631m) in 2015, according to a report, but apprehensions about initial costs and return-on-investment need to be overcome.
27-Jan-2010 - Schott says its new Russian packaging plant will help meet demand of growing local pharmaceutical market.