All Comment articles – Page 47
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ArticleDon’t Fear the Beard: Coding and Marking in the Male Grooming Sector
Michael McCormick, Global Marketing Manager for the Cosmetics, Personal and Homecare sectors at Videojet Technologies, looks at the effect the popularity of male grooming products has had on manufacturers in terms of coding and marking.
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Article3D printers revolutionise pharmaceutical packaging and delivery
As a designer and manufacturer of pharmaceutical packaging and delivery systems, West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. has fully embraced 3D print technology.
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Top Five Trends in Enterprise Labeling
Globalisation and digital technologies are changing businesses, especially as companies look to find new ways to amplify growth and expand into new markets.
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ArticleUnique Device Identification: Make your Mark
Arthur Smith, Global Marketing Manager for Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices at Videojet Technologies, looks at how coding and marking plays a key role in the medical device industry through the use of Unique Device Identification (UDI).
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ArticleThe Ideal Atmosphere for Drugs
Before market introduction, a new pharmaceutical product must undergo a number of approval processes. These not only concern the new drug, but also its packaging.
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ArticleManifesto: ‘Packaging must lead way to a more integrated approach’
Stuart Lendrum (former head of packaging at Sainsbury's) presents his vision for a packaging industry that needs to show leadership in facing the sustainability challenge
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Complexity and Functionality Drive Label Development, Reports FINAT RADAR
Prime labels are becoming increasingly complex and non-prime labels are becoming increasingly functional. They are among the key trends dominating the label industry according to the latest FINAT RADAR.
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ArticleAre biodegradable plastics better for the environment?
Plastics are indispensable in many areas of our modern lives, yet questions over the material’s sustainability are rarely out of the headlines these days.
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ArticleExploring the Norwegian Model
Tracy Sutton, renowned consultant in circular economy packaging design and founder of Root, reports on her recent field trip to study Norway’s waste management systems.
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ArticleDispelling the Myths of MIneral Oil Migration
The subject of mineral oil migration has received a lot of media coverage over the last few years and is a complicated topic, as there are many different opinions, tests and data for a packaging technologist to consider.
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ArticlePackaging Design Enables Complex Rx to Cx Switch
GSK shares behind the scenes of a major project with Packaging Europe, the largest venture in GSK CH for 2014-15 which saw a switch from Rx to Cx for the nasal spray product Flonase.
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ArticleMaximising Warehouse Space to Meet Growing Demand
Stuart Fish, team leader for void fill and protective packaging solutions at Automated Packaging Systems, outlines the benefits of different packaging options in order to efficiently meet growing demand from consumers.
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ArticleWhat’s causing a shift from traditional materials to flexible packaging types?
Smithers Pira identifies the key reasons why flexible packaging is continuing to increase in popularity with consumers and brand owners.
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ArticleHolistic Approach Needed to Solve Coffee Cup Recycling Problem
Paul Foot, a partner and patent attorney at intellectual property firm Withers & Rogers, explores innovation in the context of the proposed 'latte levy'.
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ArticleInsights from a Serialisation Project Manager
Crest Solutions partners with pharma companies across Europe to deliver and support solutions for serialisation and aggregation. The project manager from a recent collaboration in Ireland shares key practical takeaways from the experience
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ArticleSerialisation Implementation: The Final Countdown
In the European Union, serialisation of pharmaceutical products will be mandatory beginning February, 2019.
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Article‘Meanwhile the flexibles industry is quietly working on solutions’
As popular media focuses unprecedented attention on the issue of plastic waste, stakeholders across industry have continued working to integrate polymers into the circular economy model. Exclusive interview with CEFLEX’s Graham Houlder
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ArticleStanding-Up to Market Pressures
Stand-up pouches are one of the fastest growing pack types. In 2014 Schönwald estimated that in 2018 in Europe almost 45 billion stand-up pouches would be used… This mark was exceeded in 2017
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ArticlePharma trends to look for in 2018
Marsha Frydrychowski, director of marketing services at Resource Label Group picks out six trends pharmaceutical packagers in the USA need look out for in 2018.
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ArticleSerialisation as Driver of Digital Transformation
The costs of serialisation put focus on ROI. Tim Sykes spoke to Molteni's Tiziano Petrucciani about the company’s collaboration with Rockwell Automation, using serialisation as a springboard for modernisation of its manufacturing processes