23-Mar-2009 - Michael Schmitt, president of Alcan Global Pharmaceutical Packaging, believes a recovery in the global economy, the increasing demand for quality and the emergence of markets like India and Brazil will be key drivers for the packaging sector over the next few years.
23-Mar-2009 - Catalent is adjusting its packaging operations by closing one facility and simultaneously expanding another, which it believes will improve the service offered to its folding carton customers.
04-Mar-2009 - Use of graphs and tables depicting pharmacokinetic attributes is among the recommendations made in the FDA’s latest guidance on clinical pharmacology labelling of prescription drugs.
03-Mar-2009 - ESS Technologies has extended the range of its Monoblock platform with a new bottle feeder capable of accurately filling and capping up to 120 small pharmaceutical liquid bottles a minute.
02-Mar-2009 - Three plants owned by contract packaging maker Alcan have been cleared to produce containers for pharmaceutical products under the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 15378:2006 guidelines.
26-Feb-2009 - It is not compulsory to respond to form 483s detailing deficiencies at a facility but the FDAs latest guidance fully recommends companies do so to avoid being issued with a warning letter.
25-Feb-2009 - This week in-PharmaTechnologist's Pharma Phacts podcast focuses on a nanotechnology method that could produce more effective barrier packaging using less material.
19-Feb-2009 - Gerresheimer posted positive results for 2008, with operating income growing by over 13 per cent, but has acknowledged it will not be able to maintain this momentum in 2009.
18-Feb-2009 - Valois Pharma is installing precision plastic molding capabilities at its manufacturing facility in Congers, New York, US as part of ongoing efforts to modernise its global manufacturing operations.
17-Feb-2009 - IMA chief financial officer Sergio Marzo says that although demand for its machines has been strong so far this year, the number of orders it receives in the second quarter will provide a better reflection of the pharmaceutical industry’s position.
16-Feb-2009 - Outsourcing-pharma spoke to Amcor Flexibles about the future of the global flexible packaging market.
12-Feb-2009 - An inspection system for sealing caps developed by Germany’s Vitronic could make the need for rotating pharmaceutical bottles and ampoules on the production line a thing of the past.
10-Feb-2009 - Australian packaging company Amcor is in talks with mining giant Rio Tinto about buying part of the latter’s Alcan Packaging Division, confirming speculation that emerged late last year.
10-Feb-2009 - Seidenader Vision is gearing up to launch a modular track and trace (T&T) solution which, it says, will give drug manufacturers the flexibility to adapt to the changing legislative landscape.
05-Feb-2009 - Almac Pharmaceutical Services has won the contract to produce packaging for physician samples of Middlebrook Pharmaceuticals antibiotic Moxatag (amoxicillin).
04-Feb-2009 - Swiss Polytype Converting says it has completed the installation of one of its bespoke coating and lacquering systems at facilities owned by Austrian pharmaceutical foils specialist Constantia Patz.
04-Feb-2009 - Neopac has launched its Twist’n’Use single dose applicator, which it claims improves patient compliance, ensures administration of the correct dosage and prevents contamination.
28-Jan-2009 - GS1 UK has released positive preliminary results from a track and trace pilot study, which used bar codes and EPC/RFID tags to follow drugs from manufacturing plants to a hospital.
20-Jan-2009 - The FDA is calling for all drugs to be labelled using a standardised numerical identifier (SNI) similar to the one suggested in the delayed California e-Pedigree guidelines in a bid to tighten up supply chain security.
15-Jan-2009 - The market for packaging machinery is set to grow 5 per cent a year and be worth $40bn (€30.3bn) by 2012, driven partly by a hike in demand for drug products in “pharmerging” economies, according to a new industry report.
15-Jan-2009 - Süd-Chemie Performance Packaging has expanded its range of bentonite desiccants, which it claims are cheaper and less environmentally damaging than silica gel alternatives.
13-Jan-2009 - Schering-Plough has signed up to use software developed by UK-based specialist ixPressia to improve the quality of its blister printing operations.
13-Jan-2009 - The European Commission (EC) has published its revised guidance on the readability of medicinal labels and accompanying leaflets, which will come into force in June.
12-Jan-2009 - December's packaging deal between McKesson and Burgopak is further evidence of drug industry's determination to improve patient compliance. in-PharmaTechnologist asked Burgopak's global head of automation Mark Symonds for further details of the groundbreaking accord.
23-Dec-2008 - The European Association of Pharmaceutical Full-line Wholesalers (GIRP) says it has concerns about the anti-counterfeiting proposals contained in the European Commission's recently-released 'pharmaceutical package.'