Packaging, Labeling, and Distribution Systems

Catalent acquires Pharmapak Technologies, a pharmaceutical packaging company based in New South Wales, Australia.

Industry awaits the final revision of USP General Chapter and the impact it will have on the evaluation of sterile product package integrity.

Drug makers back alternative to FDA labeling update rule.

Temperature-controlled packaging trends include prequalified systems that simplify adoption, reusable systems that are more sustainable, and new temperature-monitoring technology.

Recipharm expects to be rolling out further serialization projects during 2015.

UPS expands its special commodities program to more countries.

A new machine is designed for inspection of prefilled syringes.

The company has increased capacity for cold storage and controlled drug substances handling at its European facilities.

Careful selection of a contract packager should include interviews, surveys, and on-site visits.

UPS Temperature True Packaging provides four prequalified packaging system options for temperature-sensitive products with different time and temperature requirements.

Market changes are driving pharmaceutical companies to consider new ways to mitigate risk in the cold chain.

Recipharm has completed a serialization project for China on behalf of one of its customers.

Rommelag's all-electric aseptic blow-fill-seal packaging system encapsulates the filling point and can be installed in a cleanroom.

A horizontal flow wrapper separates vials and individually packs them at high speed using a long-dwell sealing system with ultrasonic or heat-sealing technology.

Comar's 18-mm SecureCap child-resistant closure for eye drops and nasal sprays meets US Consumer Product Safety Commission for products containing 0.08 milligrams or more of imidazolines.

Child-resistant packaging requirements for products containing a specified imidazoline will come into effect June 10, 2015.

A guidance document published just before the Jan. 1, 2015 deadline adds a four-month grace period.

New materials and software modeling streamline the blister-package design process.

New pharmaceutical packaging equipment includes advances in automation and efficient systems.

Optel Vision, a Canadian company specializing in track-and-trace and vision inspection solutions for manufacturing industries, announced that its facility in Limerick, Ireland is now opened to serve customers across Europe.

CDMO Vetter announced the addition of a new flexible serialization service, introduced in response to stricter packaging regulations calling for drugs to be serialized as a means to fight counterfeits.

The Baxter recall in the US of one lot of highly concentrated potassium chloride is due to a mislabeled overpouch.

New child-resistant packaging designs meet regulatory requirements, and consumer research into child-resistant closures continues.

Cryopreserved shipments are monitored with real-time tracking and intervention services.

Contract Packaging Resources issued a voluntary recall of naproxen sodium tablets because some cartons contain bottles of ibuprofen.

Packaging machines, coding equipment, inspection and data capture systems, material handling, controls, and software must work together in a serialization system.

The intermittent cartoner can be equipped with a variety of in-feed systems and can handle different package formats and closure options.

Monitoring device uses thermal imaging to inspect 100% of sachets and pouches.

Temperature-controlled packaging trends include prequalified systems that simplify adoption, reusable systems that are more sustainable, and new temperature-monitoring technology.

To achieve the high quality standards required for critical defects in pharmaceutical glass syringes, a combination of visual and camera-based inspection technologies are used.