By Sean Riley, PMMI While Healthcare Packaging Expo (Sept. 23-25; Las Vegas Convention Center), co-located with PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019, remains months away, trends and innovations in the life sciences sector continue to make [...]

By Jerry Martin, pharmaceutical and life sciences consultant to PMMI While discussions around pharmaceutical packaging have previously focused on tamper-evident and child-proof solutions, the industry must adapt amid another looming demographic shift: “the graying of [...]

By Keren Sookne, Healthcare Packaging Magazine Healthcare Packaging EXPO, co-located with PACK EXPO International in Chicago two weeks ago, offered the latest in packaging, equipment, controls, components and more. Editors were hard at work at both [...]

By Missy Dougan, account manager and strategic buyer, SIGMA Equipment  According to the Investment Recovery Association, up to 20 percent of a company’s assets at any given time are surplus to its needs. The IRA [...]

By Donna Ross The pharmaceutical industry requires maximum quality and maximum reliability – both in the products and from the equipment that moves them. Ergonomic lifting equipment specifically designed for this meticulously controlled environment can [...]

By John Bratton, product development manager, CCL Healthcare Europe A number of activities and associated tasks contribute to the expanding costs and timescales for delivering clinical trials to fruition. They are directly linked to the [...]

By Marchesini Group Ensuring product sterility within aseptic environments is one of the key concerns for manufacturers of machine solutions for the injectables market. Companies will always seek to make the process of sterilization as efficient [...]

By Todd McDonald, director of sales and marketing, TEQ TEQ has worked with global medical device manufacturers for many years, and when they started asking for capabilities and manufacturing in Europe, we listened. In 2016, [...]

New report expects lucrative growth in the specialty pharmaceuticals market, with medications often requiring special temperature management, handling, shipping and distribution. By Jim Butschli , Healthcare Packaging  A new Transparency Market Research report defines specialty pharmaceuticals as “branded [...]

FDA’s action – well, guidance – about concentrated caffeine in dietary supplements shows that even common substances might not always be safe, but packaging might be a key solution. By Eric F. Greenberg, Healthcare Packaging  LAWS [...]