Manufacturing

Hallie Forcinio is packing editor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, editorhal@sbcglobal.net.

Articles

Expanded systems integration, serialization, and supply chain connectivity will enhance productivity and support counterfeit prevention.

Parenteral Packagers Focus on Security and Supply-Chain Transparency

Automation and ready-to-fill packaging formats are expected to grow in parenteral fill–finish operations.

Trends in Parenteral Fill–Finish

Parenteral packaging of the future will include more automated lines, ready-to-fill packaging formats, and supply-chain transparency.

Parenteral Packaging: 2021

Integrated pharmaceutical blister-packaging equipment systems strengthen serialization and brand protection capabilities.

New Equipment Improves Blister Packaging

The agency provides terms and recommendations for packaging and labeling of injectable medical products.

FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Packaging of Injectables

Manufacturers of parenteral drugs face challenges to increase efficiency, control particulates, control extractables and leachables, and eliminate product/package interactions; new containers and packaging equipment offer increased options.

Parenteral Packaging Advances

Electronic pharmaceutical tablet counters meet demands for accuracy, flexibility, speed, compact size, easy cleanability, and quick changeover.

Electronic Tablet Counters Improve Efficiency

Checkweighers, metal detectors, x-ray inspectors, leak detectors, headspace analyzers, and optical inspection systems for packaging were demonstrated at INTERPHEX 2015.

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