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Great Value: Missing the mark?

Pamela Long of Little Big Brands evaluates the effectiveness of Walmart’s clean, distilled design for its Great Value line of private-label products, focusing on products that include laundry sheets, cereal, and applesauce.

April 16, 2012

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The value of a line audit

A line audit may be an effective way of aiding the decision-making process on how best to increase production output.

April 16, 2012

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Intelligrated expands Sales Engineering Team for Eastern Regional Operations

Intelligrated, a North American-owned automated material handling solutions provider, has recently appointed John Schmidt to the position of sales engineer for the company’s New Jersey-based eastern regional operations.

April 16, 2012

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Converter band rocks the medical device world

Converters 4 Medical Device Instruments band shows one way that packaging and converting pros give of their time and talent.

April 15, 2012

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Reporting on ISTA Forum 2012

This year’s International Safe Transit Association’s Forum on transport packaging was held in Orlando, Florida April 2-5, 2012.

April 15, 2012

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Nestle, Coke, Church & Dwight to address The Automation Conference

Presenters from Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Church & Dwight, and other leading packaged goods companies are among the highlights awaiting those who attend The Automation Conference May 22-23 in suburban Chicago.

April 13, 2012

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Ampac receives three Silver Awards from Flexible Packaging Association

Ampac, provider of creative flexible packaging, was recognized for a Silver Printing Achievement award for its Tesco Finest Soups Retort Pouch and two Silver awards for Packaging Excellence and Technical Innovation for the Easysnap Sachet Pouch from the Flexible Packaging Association.

April 13, 2012

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Narrowing the interpretation gap between design and commercialization

Because package design is just as much art as it is science, there can be a wide interpretation gap between design exploration and the actual print run, unless you account for certain variables upstream in the process.

April 12, 2012

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Monthly Safety Labeling Changes includes 39 products with revisions to Prescribing Information

The MedWatch March 2012 Safety Labeling Changes posting includes 39 products with safety labeling changes to the following sections: BOXED WARNINGS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS, ADVERSE REACTIONS and PATIENT PACKAGE INSERT.

April 11, 2012

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Oliver Products is acquired by Berwind Group

Oliver Products, the parent company of Oliver-Tolas® Healthcare Packaging and Oliver Packaging and Equipment, has been acquired by an affiliate of the Berwind Corporation.

April 11, 2012

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Espicom predicts that investment in rural markets will play a significant role in future Chinese health market development

According to a new Espicom report, Understanding Regional Chinese Health Markets, many regions of China present significant opportunities for manufacturers of health products, but the Chinese government’s plans to extend high quality services across the population has yet to be reflected on the ground.

April 11, 2012

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Intelligrated Expands Sales Engineering Team for its N.J.-based Eastern Regional Operations

Intelligrated®, a leading North American-owned automated material handling solutions provider, announces the recent appointment of John Schmidt to the position of sales engineer for the company’s N.J.-based eastern regional operations.

April 11, 2012

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Takeda to Acquire URL Pharma

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) and URL Pharma, Inc. (URL Pharma) jointly announced today that Takeda’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Takeda America Holdings, Inc. and URL Pharma have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire URL Pharma - a privately-held pharmaceutical company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an upfront payment of $800 million and future performance-based contingent earn out payments.

April 11, 2012