Archive for the ‘Packaging’ Category
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Sanner GmbH, a manufacturer of packaging for healthcare products, has invested more than one million euros to upgrade its facilities and IT infrastructure at its plant in Budapest. The company notably has integrated a GUARDUS manufacturing execution system and SAP business management resource. The upgrade will ensure smoother production operations ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
From the wire: Oliver Products, the parent company of Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging and Oliver Packaging and Equipment, has been acquired by an affiliate of Berwind Corp.
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
“We are the only company I know of that has the expertise to do primary packaging in glass or plastic,” says Marion Stolzenwald, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, at Gerresheimer AG (Düsseldorf, Germany). It’s a bold claim, but I’m inclined to think it may well be accurate. And with the recent ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
From the wire: Optima Group (Germany) has acquired Doyen Medipharm, a maker of converting and packaging machines with facilities in the United States, United Kingdom and Malaysia. “This acquisition will benefit and enhance the entire life science division of Optima," says Optima Life Science Managing Director, Juergen Feyerherd.
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
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Obviously, there's an awful lot of pharmaceutical packaging on display at Pharmapack Europe, but medical packaging also gets a fair amount of attention at the annual event. If you live in or near Paris, or are just looking for an excuse to spend some time ...
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
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Sealed Air has announced the acquisition of the Costa Rican operation of Advanced Thermoforming Enterprise (ATE) (Oceanside, CA, USA), a privately-owned medical thermoforming company. The business will be integrated into Sealed Air’s existing Medical Applications unit. Financial terms of ...
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
Gerresheimer, manufacturer of high-quality speciality products made of glass and plastic for the global pharma and healthcare industry, has received the German Packaging Award 2011 in the Retail Packaging category for developing multilayer plastic vials that offer previously unattained levels of safety for parenteral drugs. According to Gerresheimer, the new plastic ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Visitors to this week's co-located events for the pharmaceutical industry taking place 25 to 27 October at Messe Frankfurt in Germany, can find out all about the latest developments and innovations in the pharmaceutical market. ICSE/BioPh and InnoPack 2011 will be held alongside CPhI Worldwide for pharmaceutical ingredients and P-MEC ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Gerresheimer is growing . . . again. To satisfy demand from customers in the medical device, drug and diagnostics industries, the full-service contract manufacturer is practically doubling floor space, from 5400 to 10,400 sq m, at its plant in Horsovsky Tyn, Czech Republic. As demand for devices used in the treatment ...
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
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Although the Eurovision song competition took place at the Esprit Arena adjacent to Messe Düsseldorf pretty much at the same time as Interpack this year, the trade show halls were filled. (Well, Eurovision attracts a different audience, I suppose.) While walking ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
At Interpack, taking place in Düsseldorf 12 to 18 May, visitors can get a glimpse of the new dosing system from Medisize that has been developed for pharmaceutical liquids. "Our new dosing system is absolutely user friendly and safe to use," says Paula Kasper from Medisize. "You don't have to figure out ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
This week the international packaging trade show Interpack will be returning to Messe Düsseldorf. Taking place from 12 to 18 May, about 2,700 exhibitors from roughly 60 countries are expected to show their latest innovations in packaging technology. Among the many companies exhibiting at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre is ...
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