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Pharma packaging requires creative design, supplier innovation

Richard Adams, head of Pack Graphic Design at GlaxoSmithKline in Raleigh-Durham, NC, discusses the need for supplier innovation, packaging’s role in product development, and compliance-prompting packaging in this excerpt from Healthcare Packaging’s “Voices of Leadership.”

March 1, 2012

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Mapping quality

As companies become increasingly connected in the global economy, they now have supply chains—or “value streams”—that span international borders.

March 1, 2012

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The state of the pharma sector in Italy

Yes, there’s a financial crisis in Italy, as there is generally in Western Europe today; but Italian firms in the pharmaceutical supply chain are not being affected as badly because “structural variables” are allowing the sector to perform well.

March 1, 2012

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2013 ICE USA expands exhibit space

With more than a year remaining before the 2013 ICE USA opens in Orlando, FL, on April 9, 2013, show organizer Mack Brooks Exhibitions announced that they have increased the Show Floor by 15,000 sq. ft. to accommodate demand for more space.

March 1, 2012

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Child-resistant packaging can reduce poisoning

At Pharmapack 2012 in Paris, Faubel and Co.'s Olof Malmgren talked about child-resistant methods in the U.S., and the lack of European regulations.

February 29, 2012

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Logopak to attend LogiMAT 2012, at the New Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre, 13-15 March

Logopak Corporation USA, a leading manufacturer of industrial print and apply labeling systems, will be joining its parent company, Logopak Systeme GmbH & Co. KG, at LogiMAT 2012, at the New Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre, 13-15 March.

February 28, 2012

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Triangle partners with Southeastern Packaging Equipment Sales

Triangle Package Machinery Company has announced that Southeastern Packaging Equipment Sales, LLC (SEPKG) has joined the Triangle sales team.

February 27, 2012

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Batching Systems’ Don Wooldridge passes away

Donald “Don” Wooldridge, co-founder and President of Batching Systems, Inc., passed away February 20, 2012.

February 27, 2012

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Campbell Soup contemporizes with bold new products, packaging

Soup in a pouch anyone? Innovation teams at Campbell Soup tap into consumer insights to launch range of new products in future-forward flavors and packaging.

February 24, 2012

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Colbert and Haapanen form C and H Printing Solutions for packaging inserts

Colbert Packaging Corporation, manufacturer of folding cartons, rigid paper boxes and paperboard specialty products, and Haapanen Brothers, a full-service graphic arts and printing company, have announced that they have formed C and H Printing Solutions, Inc., a new provider of micro-folded packaging inserts and outserts.

February 24, 2012

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Heinz Dip and Squeeze Ketchup Features Dual Functionality

In the 2012 Flexible Packaging Association awards competition, a Gold Award went to the Heinz Ketchup Dip & Squeeze Retail 10-Count Pack.

February 23, 2012

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Dynamic Conveyor promotes Tom Habetler to support growing Michigan customer base

Dynamic Conveyor Corporation has announced that Tom Habetler has been promoted to Sales Engineer for the manufacturer of reconfigurable conveyor systems.

February 23, 2012

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AGI-Shorewood’s refleXions™ Revolutionizes the Use of Reflectivity in Specialty Packaging

AGI-Shorewood, the global specialty packaging company, announced the introduction of refleXions™, its proprietary next-generation technology that gives consumer product companies unprecedented freedom to apply highly reflective packaging design elements.

February 22, 2012