Every year, parallel to MEDICA, the world’s largest medical trade fair, COMPAMED, the leading international trade fair for the suppliers market in medical manufacturing, also demonstrates the dynamic and innovative capacity of the medical technology sector.
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Haefner who specialise in plastic spools set up a medical clean room in just nine months. The production module is certificated in accordance with clean room Class 8 (ISO 14644) and is free of particles/germs in accordance with c’GMP* (current Good Manufacturing Practice) Class D. An injection moulding machine having a locking force of 3,500 kN forms the core of the new production module.
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The requirements of many European countries and the USA are as clear-cut as their implementation is complex: medical products should be seamlessly traceable.
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Showing off aluminium foil’s role as a thoroughly convenient, environmentally conscious and innovative material for both today’s and future market needs was not difficult for the 26 entries to the Alufoil Trophy 2008. However, it was a major endeavour for the judges to reduce the list to come up with just seven winners.
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Alcan Packaging, a division of Rio Tinto Alcan announces that its Medical Flexibles Americas Commerce, California and Marshall, North Carolina facilities have received the ISO 13485:2003 certification, a quality management standard for medical devices. Three of the four Alcan Medical Flexibles Americas plants have now received this certification.
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The Optima Group (Schwäbisch Hall) presents itself on the Interpack with a comprehensive performance range: Innovative packaging technologies for the Pharma, Consumer and Nonwovens industries, converting and packaging lines for Medicare products, as well as MES software and optical quality control systems for all three industries.
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The U.S. Department of Defense, along with Congressman Tim Holden (D -PA), today announced that SCHOTT North America has been awarded an appropriation of $800,000 in federal funding, which Congressman Holden inserted into the Defense Appropriations Bill. The funding will allow SCHOTT to conduct research into the interaction between biotherapeutic drugs and glass packaging. Currently, such interactions can lead to drug loss due to adsorption, aggregation and precipitation, which diminishes the effectiveness of these drugs.
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How will packaging look in ten years? What are our consumption patterns, and what makes packaging sell? These are the questions Korsnäs asked young design students at the Packaging Impact Design Awards (PIDA). This year, concurrent competitions were held in Sweden, Germany and France. First out of the box was the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. This year’s PIDA coincides with Korsnäs’ introduction of the new cartonboard Frövi White, and the contest assignment was to choose a luxury product in the beauty, beverage, confectionery, fashion, media or health & medical segment and design packaging for it using Frövi White These are the market segments for which Korsnäs introduced the new board, developed with focus on whiteness, smoothness and formability.
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Pfeiffer has developed the first 100% safe and efficient dispensing system for preservative-free formulations as well as for sensitive natural or biotechnological ingredients. Special high-tech features -some are already validated for medical applications- insure the integrity of microbiological formulations. This dispensing solution is compiled with Pfeiffer’s newest generation cartridge yielding a pure compatibility between formulation and packaging thanks to a metal-free formula flow. In addition to the functional benefits, Pfeiffer’s dispensing system will please the consumers´ eye with its sheer elegant lines and be pleasing to the touch with its smooth handling properties and its ergonomic shape
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DSM Engineering Plastics has introduced Akulon XP, a high productivity grade of PA6 for film applications. Akulon XP offers a broader processing window leading to more flexibility and more uniform thickness distribution in cast film, more melt strength and better parison stability leading to optimized LDPE/LLDPE ratio in multi-layer films without sacrificing the mechanical properties, more shear thinning than with standard PA6 enabling thus higher coating velocities possible and still absolutely gel free.
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The Package of the Year Award 2005 in the category “Medical” was awarded to Roche Diagnostics’ Accu-Chek Multiclix® lancing system. This award also honors the accomplishment of system supplier Wilden Group. The services that went into creating this product range from product development to engineering, mold making, injection molding, assembly, product finishing and logistics.
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