Hallie Forcinio

Packaging innovations boost productivity, meet regulatory requirements, and protect products.

Drugmakers and packagers are pursuing various initiatives to reduce their carbon footprints. This article contains bonus material.

Smartphones could become the product-authentication tool of choice. Contains online bonus material.

Many child-safe package designs help improve compliance and provide tamper evidence.

Visitors found new container options, child-resistant concepts, and serialization solutions. This article contains bonus online material.

The 2011 show presents ideas for package designs and equipment options for packaging lines.

Innovations protect the quality of temperature-sensitive products.

Outsourcing packaging functions can save time and money.

Used packaging equipment can be a cost-saving, time-saving alternative to new machines.

Serialized product codes serve as the foundation of ePedigree records and product traceability.

Interphex attendees found packaging machines and containers with increased functionality. This article contains online bonus material.

Aseptic blow–fill–seal minimizes human intervention in the packaging process.

Visitors to INTERPHEX 2010 will find an abundance of packaging innovations. Plus: Check out our preliminary program for LIVE video interviews at the show.

Pharmaceutical companies get ideas for sustainable packaging from other industries.

Authenticating tools help identify counterfeit drug products. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

An expanding number of products and services plug gaps in the cold chain. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

Compliance features help patients follow medication regimens correctly.

Products at INTERPHEX focused on protection, compliance, and deterring counterfeiting. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

Integrated lines, flexible machines, and high-barrier materials enhance packaging options.

Planning ahead will ensure successful efforts to improve packaging and packaging operations.

Identifying the most sustainable packaging for a product is rarely a simple exercise.

Postponement of California's deadline gives the supply chain time to refine ePedigree solutions.

New products for sterile filling, quality control, and anticounterfeiting measures gained notice.

The annual show provided one-stop shopping for packaging equipment and materials.

New packaging options monitor and protect temperature-sensitive products.

Although the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry tends to be more like the tortoise than the hare when it comes to adopting new ideas, pharmaceutical packaging will be dramatically different 30 years from now in 2037.

When it comes to designing and sourcing sustainable packaging, there are no simple answers. Sustainable packaging depends on a complex interaction of environmental, social, and economic considerations, which are influenced by geography and other factors such as renewability, compostability, biodegradability, weight, and performance.

Nonpharmaceutical manufacturers find ways to make environmentally sound packaging.

Security, the environment, ageing populations, the bio-boom and cost control are just a few of the drivers that will influence pharmaceutical packaging for the remainder of this decade.

Going digital can produce high-quality, full-color labels at potentially lower cost.