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Ensuring safe packaging for the corona vaccine
The wait for the corona vaccine has finally come to an end. BNT162b2 is the name of the first promising vaccine candidate. However, before we can start vaccinating, we need to overcome huge logistical hurdles which require suitable packaging and processes.
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The coronavirus crisis as an opportunity for the packaging industry?
The coronavirus pandemic changed everything, with the packaging industry also experiencing a transformation. The fact that not every consequence of the crisis was bad is demonstrated by individual examples of industry participants who were able to find opportunity in the COVID-19 situation.
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How varnishes can protect us against viruses and bacteria
Since the outbreak of corona, we have all been washing our hands industriously to avoid catching the dangerous Covid-19 virus. But varnishes can also help protect us against viruses and bacteria on packaging. The activated ingredient in Microbe Protect special varnish contains nanosilver and is said to provide 99.99 percent protection.
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Repackaging pharmaceuticals in blister packs
Around the world, the number of elderly people is increasing. This is accompanied by an increase in the demand for pharmaceutical packaging that is geared towards senior citizens. In blister packaging centres, pharmaceuticals are repackaged in blister packaging that is user-friendly and tailored to the patient’s needs, thus preventing dosage errors.
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Packing UV-sensitive products under LED lights
Especially where sensitive medication is concerned, packaging for UV-sensitive products is in high demand. UV-free LED lights can help package medication securely, whilst at the same time preventing interruptions that occur when converting to other product lines. And when it comes to food and beverages, integrated UV absorbers can protect sensitive products.
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Number of the Month: Pharmaceuticals 2020
The rise in the number of older patients, increasing urbanisation and a growing middle class. Participating companies are called upon to react to the changing patient needs related to convenience whilst at the same time offering safe packaging and process technologies as well as safe bottling and packaging solutions.
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Pharmaceutical packaging for senior citizens
The world’s population is growing older – the UN predicts that by 2050, an estimated 426 million people will be over 80, around three times as many as in 2019. With an increase in age, the demand for pharmaceuticals and innovative packaging solutions for an older population also increases, including personalisation, smart technologies and e-commerce.
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Track and Trace Regulations Mean New Technologies for Pharmaceutical Packaging
Since February 2019, prescription medication has to be equipped with an individual identifying feature, a serial number as well as tamper-proof seals for trade throughout the EU. Goods that are still on the market may still be sold.
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Brexit: How will it affect pharmaceutical packaging?
Six more months, until 31 October 2019 to be exact, remain for the Brits and the EU member states to agree on the conditions for Brexit. This means the hard exit variant with no deal has been postponed, but is not yet off the table. But what happens if it does come to that?
Among other consequences, this would affect the pharmaceutical industry and the associated packaging and process industry.
Intoxicating packaging for cannabis products
More and more countries are following the example of the Netherlands, the greater part of the USA and most recently Canada in legalising cannabis products – or at least tolerating them. They’re aimed at a very diverse target group – and the packaging is correspondingly diverse.
Pharmaceutical Trend in 2019: New Impulses through Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence systems are still in their early stages but one thing is for sure: they will grow out of these stages over the next years – also in the pharmaceutical industry. The momentum they generate for companies in the packaging sector is anything but negligible
Braille on packaging
Six dots that have changed the world. For persons with visual impairments Braille is an indispensable aid for everyday life. It provides orientation and access to knowledge that others absorb with their eyes. Braille symbols are also important pointers on packaging – such as on pharmaceutical product packaging.
Better prepared
The pharmaceutical industry is facing major challenges in implementing the Falsified Medicines Directive. It will have to find solutions very soon if it wants to prevent the recent problem in the United States where the authorities had to postpone the launch of a similar regulation by one year because the industry was not sufficiently well prepared.
Folding Boxes on Demand
Increasing mechanisation and altered customer expectations are forcing folding box manufacturers to re-think their processes: what for years used to be manufactured by high-quality offset printing presses is now, slowly but surely, also being replaced by digital printing in pharmaceutical applications.
10% of all drugs sold are counterfeited
New strategies to combat dangerous product piracy in the pharmaceutical sector
Patient protection ranks first in drug administration. But rising numbers of counterfeited drugs negatively impact the work of physicians, pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacists. Innovative packaging developments designed for immediate detection of illegal products are hoped to stop this illegal trade.
Pharmaceutical packaging 2017: forecasts and needs
Changes in demographics are also boosting the importance of the pharmaceutical industry. The packaging industry, too, needs to adjust itself to the growing needs of patients and to strict new legal requirements. The current expectations of industry experts for 2017 have now been documented in an up-to-date study.
Pharmaceutical packaging: safety a top priority
Country-specific comparative studies, as-is states and outlooks for the future market situation due to counterfeited pharmaceuticals make it clear what the packaging industry will be faced with. The USA and Canada are considered especially effective in combating illegal drugs.
Added Security and Convenience
Innovative Medicine Packaging conquers Pharmaceutical Sector
The International Patient Safety Day has already drawn public attention to the increasing demand for safe packaging solutions. Confusion of drugs, handling problems or counterfeits are just some of the challenges facing the packaging industry over the coming years.
New trends in pharmaceutical packaging
The falsified Medicines Directive requires all packaging in the pharmaceutical sector in the EU to bear an individual serial number by 2019. This obliges packaging service providers for the pharmaceutical sector to implement measures for the serialisation of medicine packaging within 3 years
Will electronic displays take the place of paper labels in future?
Interactive displays instead of printed instructions for use on paper: this packaging solution might turn into reality very soon. More and more drug and food companies are relying on this innovative technology hoped to both support patients and prevent counterfeiting.
It’s a patient, not a product - Drugs liable to cooling are subject to special provisions
"It’s a patient, not a product" says the sign on the wall of UPS Healthcare’s packaging hall. And this is precisely the point for highly sensitive drugs. From production to arrival at their destination some goods travel for weeks, especially in international shipping. An uninterrupted cool chain is ensured by appropriate packaging.
Innovative pharmaceutical packaging: beautiful, safe and sustainable
Once a year employees of the Internet platform Healthcare Packaging recognise outstanding pharmaceutical packaging designs. For 2016 the results are in – and below we introduce you to seven of the 20 particularly user-friendly, sustainable, innovative or original winners.