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IoPP Spotlight — November 2014: Drug/pharma/medical device packaging
IoPP
Throughout November, IoPP will bring directly to members content focused on the drug/pharmaceutical/medical device packaging markets. Packaging tips, white papers, special webinars and more...carefully selected vertical content to help make you a better informed, more well-rounded packaging professional. IoPP Spotlight focuses on product packaging segments important to you! If you haven't done so already, please go onto www.iopp.org and either log on as an existing member or join IoPP. Then update your member profile and opt in to receive the content you want not only throughout November, but for all future "IoPP Spotlight" months. November's Spotlight is sponsored by DDL and supported by Healthcare Packaging magazine, HealthPack and Pharma EXPO.
Click here to read more about IoPP's Spotlight months.
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PHARMACEUTICAL / MEDICAL DEVICE PACKAGING NEWS
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Chemically-resistant film for pharma applications saves money, environment
Packaging World
Representing a collaboration between Ineos' Barex, a acrylonitrile-methyl acrylate copolymer, and Rollprint's own ClearFoil, a barrier-coated polyester, Exponent is produced by extrusion or adhesive lamination of ClearFoil to Barex. When compared to traditional foil-based high-barrier structures, Exponent's reduced number of layers and gauge is said to offer cost-savings, and create an improved environmental profile for a wide variety of pharmaceutical products.
US demand for rigid bulk packaging to reach $7.3 billion in 2018
Healthcare Packaging
Demand for rigid bulk packaging is projected to increase 4 percent annually to $7.3 billion in 2018. The projected growth represents an improvement from the performance of the 2008-2013 period as manufacturing output and construction activity recover further from post-recession troughs.
Wound care market poised for steady growth
Healthcare Packaging
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan notes that the market earned revenues of $8.73 billion in 2013 and estimates this to reach $11.13 billion in 2017. The wound care market in this study included traditional wound dressings, moist wound dressings, antimicrobial dressings, active therapies and negative pressure wound therapy.
3 ways to reduce cost in medical device packaging
Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News
When it comes to medical devices, packaging is sometimes an afterthought. While there are outstanding packages that win high-profile awards, some companies fail to recognize the importance of this factor until late in the game. In worst-case scenarios, this can impact the quality and safety of the device. More often, however, the result is financial, because companies neglect to take steps to reduce packaging costs.
Nov. 11 IoPP Standard Webinar: The Do's and Don'ts of Sterile Medical Device Packaging
IoPP
To be compliant with ISO 11607 part 2, medical device companies must have a validation program to demonstrate repeatability and reproducibility of the sealing process. As the FDA continues to regulate the processes involved in medical sterile packaging systems, the need for reducing variation on these processes becomes more critical. Presented by Charlie Rivera, CPP, Corporate Packaging Operations Manager, ConMed Corp., and taking place Nov. 11 from 2 to 3 p.m. CST, this webinar is open to Elite, Premium and Regular IoPP members.
Click here for more information and to register.
Packaging World's founding editor passes away
IoPP
Arnie Orloski Jr., who served as chief editor behind the 1994 launch of Packaging World, passed away peacefully on Oct. 11. He was 71. Early in his career, while serving on the USS Chicago in the U.S. Navy, Orloski helped launch The Skyscraper magazine on board the ship and served as editor of that publication. By 1977 he was a packaging trade publication field editor, reporting from countless packaging operations worldwide and expanding knowledge through his case history feature stories. In 2003, he was inducted into the PMMI Packaging Hall of Fame. Election into the Packaging Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed upon packaging professionals by their peers.
Click here to read more.
IoPP student member selected to receive Packaging World award
IoPP
IoPP Student Member Samuel D. McGee has been selected to receive the Packaging World Packaging Science Outstanding Senior award for Fall 2014. A native of Clemson, South Carolina, McGee spent his junior and senior years of high school at Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, South Carolina. This enabled him to enter Clemson in 2010 as a freshman with close to 30 hours of credit under his belt. With overlapping interests in art, design and science, McGee has found the study of packaging science at Clemson to be a perfect fit.
Click here to read more.
Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee to organize nurses panel at HealthPack 2015
IoPP
IoPP's Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee will take over the organization and running of the nurses panel for HealthPack 2015. The nurses panel continues to be a signature event at the HealthPack event, which is dedicated to issues and new technologies in the area of medical device packaging. The nurses panel at HealthPack consists of local operating room nurses reviewing and commenting on submitted medical device packages and then answer conference attendees' questions about their likes and dislikes about the packages they have encountered in their work. Current members of IoPP receive a $100 discount on HealthPack registration. Membership verification and discount code required for discount. For IoPP HealthPack discount code, email bciulla@healthpack.net.
Click here for more information about HealthPack 2015.
November Packaging World/IoPP Professional Perspective focused on broadening your skill sets
IoPP
A recent informal IoPP member poll sheds light on one challenge at consumer goods companies: Though they're carefully applying marketplace research to package development, many have not assessed where and how their packages might affect their operations and the bottom line. Our poll, though unscientific and small in sample size, does suggest a revealing snapshot of inadequate communication and understanding between packaging functions. In the November edition of Packaging World's Professional Perspective, Jim George, IoPP director of education, takes a close look at broadening the skill sets of the packaging professional.
Click here to read more.
'Fundamentals, 5th Edition' in second printing; CPP exam updated
IoPP
The IoPP textbook "Fundamentals of Packaging Technology, 5th Edition" is in its second printing after being released in June. If you've been waiting to order your Fundamentals book, now is the time! The new edition was updated by nearly 100 subject matter experts, adding chapters on packaging law and sustainability, voluminous updates and new topic discussions. And for the first time, the book contains an answer key for more than 500 chapter review questions. Click here to order. IoPP also has updated the CPP exam to correlate to the 5th Edition, as the 4th Edition is now out of print. For a limited time, you may test to either the 4th Edition or the 5th Edition.
For details, contact Barbara Dykes, bdykes@iopp.org.
Packaging Machinery: Basics 2015 seminar dates announced
IoPP
Learning how your packages function on various machines. Engage in discussions with your peers to learn new tips and tricks and create new, innovative packaging solutions. View actual packaging machines. Get all this and more at IoPP's Packaging Machinery: Basics seminar, taught by instructor John Henry, CPP. Class session dates have just been announced. Seminars will be March 16-18 and Oct. 5-7, 2015 at Frain Industries. Frain, a longtime IoPP benefactor, has proudly hosted this seminar for many years.
Click here for the seminar outline and to register.
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Nov. 2-5
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Pack Expo International, Chicago, Ilinois |
Click here for more information. |
Nov. 10
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IoPP Missouri Gateway Chapter Meeting |
Contact: Karen Van Berkel, email kvanberkel@layfayetteindustries.com. |
Nov. 11
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IoPP Webinar: The Do's and Don'ts of Sterile Medical Device Packaging, Online |
Click here for more information. |
Nov. 11
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Meadowlands Chapter Event: "Label Technology and Its Applications to Injection Molding," Long Island, New York |
Contact: Harry Bennett, email hbennett@meadowlandsiopp.com. Click here for more information. |
Nov. 11
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Wisconsin Chapter Tour and Dinner: Great Lakes Distillery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Contact: Gary Konop, email gary.konop@pentair.com. Click here for more information. |
Nov. 12
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WNY Chapter Tour: Currier Plastics, Auburn, New York |
Contact: Diana Solt, email wnyiopp@gmail.com. Click here for more information. |
Nov. 13
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Gulf Coast Chapter Event — Staples Fulfillment Center, Houston, Texas |
Contact: John Hayward, email john.hayward@hp.com. |
Nov. 18
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IoPP WNY Chapter Meeting, Rochester, New York |
Contact: Diana Solt, email dsolt@harris.com. |
Engineering plastics' properties drive adoption globally
Packaging World
Packaging and medical products are among the end-user segments where the global engineering plastics market is on a strong growth path. Plastics are easy to process, which plays a key role in driving the market as metal substitution gains traction in many end-user segments.
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Diet Coke prints 2 million unique labels in latest initiative
Adweek
You thought Coca-Cola was getting personal when it rolled out 250 bottle labels featuring people's first names. Well, Diet Coke just went and individualized 2 million bottle designs. Coca-Coca Israel created the campaign, with help from Gefen Team, Q Digital and HP Indigo. For the Diet Coke project — which echoes a similar stunt by Absolut in 2012 — a special algorithm led to a unique design technique that allowed millions of designs to be completely auto-generated.
BPA added to list of chemicals for assessment
Food Production Daily
Bisphenol A (BPA) has been added to a list of chemicals for assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Blippar and packaging: The reality and possibilities of digital engagement
Packaging Digest
A live demonstration of Blippar's augmented reality technology in September at Label Expo, specifically a blipp for Wheaties, caught some attention. The basic enabling technology, the Blippar app, is free to download and uses image recognition rather than a Quick Response code or barcode to activate the specific interactive, digital experience or blipp on any mobile or tablet device.
Active, biodegradable packaging for oily products
Phys.Org
The BIOMAT research group has developed a single-layer, biodegradable container from agro-industrial by-products suitable for both liquid and solid oily products. The increase in the presence of plastic in our lives is an unstoppable trend due to the versatility of this material. So innovation in the packaging industry has been focusing on the development of new, more sustainable, economically viable materials with enhanced properties and which also perform the functions required by this sector.
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