18-Nov-2010 - Syringe maker Unilife attributed increased first-quarter losses to higher expenditure, costs associated with relocation to the US and the construction of its new global headquarters and production facility in York, Pennsylvania.
10-Nov-2010 - Gerresheimer will open a representative office in Mumbai India this week as part of its growth strategy to capitalise in emerging markets.
04-Nov-2010 - Collaboration between four companies is supporting clients’ serialisation and ePedigree needs to ensure patient safety, prevent counterfeiting and limit diversion.
25-Oct-2010 - Unilife wins US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as guarantor for new manufacturing facility and global headquarters in York, Pennsylvania, US.
21-Oct-2010 - iGPS is offering what it claims is the world’s first pallet rental service to supply plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
20-Oct-2010 - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recalls another 128,000 bottles of its over-the-counter painkiller, Tylenol, after new complaints of a “mouldy odour.”
19-Oct-2010 - Microscan has introduced a system for inspecting and verifying package label content that can be implemented with the minimum of cost and effort.
18-Oct-2010 - Pfizer has invested £26.3m ($41.7m) into a new facility at its biotech packaging and distribution site in Havant, UK.
14-Oct-2010 - Biopharm sees a large future for packaging containing digital codes that can link mobile devices to content, according to Catalent.
13-Oct-2010 - “Musty smells” associated with three Lipitor bottles indicate a problem within the supply chain, says Rexam of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, who were confirmed by Pfizer as the “third-party recalling supplier.”
11-Oct-2010 - Pfizer says low levels of 2,4,6 tribromoanisole were detected in seven lots of the cholesterol buster, Lipitor, that it recalled in August.
06-Oct-2010 - Pack-Smart and ISRA Surface Vision have developed a system to compare folded cartons against print quality requirements at speeds of up to 300 metres per minute.
30-Sep-2010 - High production volumes, a reduction in the total cost of ownership, flexibility and a speedy delivery time are benefits claimed by Bosch for its new range of infeed systems launched this week at FachPack in Germany.
28-Sep-2010 - Catalent licenses Digimarc’s embedded data packaging technology to take authentication and brand awareness into digital age.
27-Sep-2010 - Helvoet Pharma breaks begins construction of INR1.2bn ($26.5m) primary packaging plant which, it hopes, will help boost export volumes.
22-Sep-2010 - Intelsius, formerly DGP Group, has introduced Orcatherm to address the increasing pharma industry need for temperature-controlled packaging and regulatory compliant sample transport solutions.
16-Sep-2010 - Rexam and Med Time Technology, a US manufacturer of plastic prescription vials, have launched “Pill Timer,” a packaging solution designed to boost treatment compliance rates.
16-Sep-2010 - Amcor says soaring raw material costs are behind its announcement to increase prices for most of its flexible packaging products.
14-Sep-2010 - US demand for pharmaceutical packaging is expected to increase by 5.5 per cent a year and top $18.4bn in 2014, according to a new study.
09-Sep-2010 - The Norwegian “green packaging” company, TimeTemp AS, intends to develop, produce and market freshness and quality indicators to the pharmaceutical industry that can be attached to cartons or pallets to determine the shelf life of a product.
09-Sep-2010 - Verayo and SkyeTek have partnered with GlobalPCCA to provide a low-cost RFID authentication system to fight counterfeits in Africa.
06-Sep-2010 - US pharmaceutical packaging firm PrePak has bought US counterpart TestPak to add back-up manufacturing capacity.
26-Aug-2010 - The Flexibles packaging unit acquired in Alcan Packaging deal boost sales, but integration costs hit fiscal 2010 net profit at Australia’s Amcor.
25-Aug-2010 - A review of US capabilities has concluded that the time to produce a pandemic vaccine could be halved through adoption of short-term policies.
12-Aug-2010 - Gujarat Foils says India’s position as global pharmaceutical manufacturing hub will be a key driver for the aluminium foils sector.