10-Aug-2010 - Label manufacturer ATL has licensed anti-counterfeiting technologies from Document Security Systems (DSS) to meet growing demand from pharma clients.
04-Aug-2010 - High tech packaging sales and revenue from acquired delivery businesses drive West Pharmaceutical Services growth in second quarter, but US firm cuts guidance.
03-Aug-2010 - Bilcare to buy Ineos’ rigid polymer films business for €100m ($132m) to improve access to pharmaceutical packaging customers worldwide.
28-Jul-2010 - Mylan hopes new solid-dose packaging plant in Hungary will help it increase market share in Eastern Europe.
28-Jul-2010 - Oracle has introduced an integrated mass-serialisation and pedigree application to improve pharma supply chain integrity.
22-Jul-2010 - Austria’s Constantia Packaging will pay Amcor €92m ($118m) for its Spanish Tobepal flexible packaging business.
05-Jul-2010 - Converters and manufacturers will be able to measure the real-life performance of packaging barrier products with greater speed and accuracy thanks to an enhanced water vapour transmission rate (WVTR) instrument, said Mocon Inc.
29-Jun-2010 - West Pharmaceutical Services and Japan’s Daikyo Seiko team on container technology they claim will help drugmakers ensure consistency during scale-up operations
28-Jun-2010 - New Gerresheimer CEO Uwe Roehrhoff wants the German firm to become the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry “first choice” partner for high-tech packaging.
28-Jun-2010 - Baxter Healthcare is expanding its European R&D presence with a new facility designed to take new pharmaceuticals from “conception to registration.”
23-Jun-2010 - Schott Pharmaceutical Packaging has revealed details of its US-based ready-to-fill syringe production line capabilities in a manufacturing sector that has traditionally been the strong hold of countries like Germany and France.
16-Jun-2010 - AMRI has acquired Hyaluron for $27m (€22m) to enter the prefilled syringe market and expand the customer base for its existing operations.
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 - 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.
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.
22-Apr-2010 - Delegates lucky enough to have made the trip to Interphex 2010 in New York, US bore witness to the launch of a wide range of new drug manufacturing technologies with products by O'Hara, Corning and PTI being some of the highlights.