14.05.2012

Synchronized Counting, Packaging and Labeling

Bottled Up - The Integrated Bottle Center 120 is a pharmaceutical-compliant integrated packaging line for tablets and capsules in bottles: A guided motion bottle transport system prevents micro-stops, product congestion and jammed bottles. Uhlmann has integrated all the necessary stations for the packaging process in a monoblock architecture that complies with good manufacturing practice. This system is now being supplemented by the specialist for packaging lines to include the Labeler L 250. more19.10.2011

How Industrial Packaging Can Boost Sustainability Measures

Achieving Success - Sustainability has become a decisive competitive advantage in the chemical industry. More than ever, it is the companies' ambition to act in a responsible way throughout the entire supply chain. Advanced packaging solutions like light-weight products as well as sustainable oriented services can help to achieve the objectives and to combine economic success with a consistent corporate responsibility. more19.10.2011

Fighting Counterfeits

Protection - The seamless documentation of supply chains and the ruling out of counterfeit products as far as possible are measures that serve to protect producers as well as patients.

These functions are assigned to one- and two-dimensional codes with which pharmaceutical manufacturers in an increasing number of countries are legally required to mark their products. However, that is just one step.

Such an identification system must function across national borders and be adaptable to meet local requirements. more06.10.2010

Past, Present and Future

Here To Stay - For 19 years, the plastics industry has been publishing its annual "Facts about Plastics" report which details trends in the production, demand and recovery of plastics for the European market. This year's report shows encouraging progress for the industry following the global financial crisis and highlights the most recent technological and design innovations in the field of plastics. more14.09.2010

Waste Not, Want Not

A Real Solution - An environmental revolution is underway that will impact communities, governments and businesses across the globe. Conservation and management of finite resources are at stake as we address the "perfect storm" of rising energy prices, societal and customer expectations to go green.

The healthcare industry is no exception, and packaging will play a key role in providing solutions, as it represents upwards of 30-50% of the overall waste stream. more