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22 Blow-Fill-Seal Units Engineered for LVP Bottles rommelag, USA, Inc. exhibited machines capable of forming, filling and sealing large volume parenteral (LVP) boles. The large vol-ume machines are a significant departure from the small volume drugs and ophthalmic packaged products typically associated with blow-fill-seal machines. The machines can handle a range of product from 0.1 ml to 2 liters. In the small volume setup, the mold can have as many as 40 cavies. The volume of filled product and the plasc used to form the package determine the machine’s hourly output in units pro-duced, ranging from 700 boles/hour to 4,000 units/hour. This is an asepc filling operaon, with liquid product sterilized outside of the machine, then transported to the boelpack® machine in a closed system that has been sterilized. The finished package can be monolayer or a coextruded barrier container. – EJB More informaon Tim Kram, general manager, +1 303-674-8333, Tim.Kram@rommelag.com; rommelag.com Low-Cost, 4-Station Automatic Blister Sealer Starview Packaging Machinery, Inc., added the FAB4-1012 blister sealer for single operator high-speed producon runs to its card sealing line. Under the proper condions, these machines can run up to 22 cycles/minute. The FAB Series automated rotary blister sealing machines are built with the capability to feed blisters, blister cards and discharge finished packages when proper tooling is installed. Machines may be used for convenonal carded blisters, full-face blisters, double card trapped blisters and half-clamshell styles. This low cost alternave permits one operator to be loading and unloading the revolving 4-staon carousel while each blister card is being sealed. – EJB More informaon: Eric Carlomusto, sales, Starview Packaging Machinery: 514.920.0100 ext. 224, eric@starview.net. New OS Simplifies Handling Uhlmann Packaging Systems introduced its SmartControl operang system, which employs user-friendly design, easily understand-able displays, and process-oriented navigaon to simplify handling of Uhlmann packaging machines and lines for operators any-where in the world. The SmartControl panel is designed to be intuive, and process-oriented user guidance follows the packaging process step by step. The system is web-based for easy integraon of machines and aggregate lines with equipment from other suppliers; Uhlmann apps expand its funcons. Its intuive layout features a uniform PC-oriented structure, clear symbols and consistent color-coding. The system is scalable and provides direct operaon at the machine or remotely, with mobile devices delivering coordinated access authorizaon. – EJB More informaon Greg Kosoy, regional sales manager, Uhlmann Packaging Systems: 973.541.7305, gkosoy@ulhmann-usa.com. Peeled pouch with Rollprint’s new sealant color indicator. Purple plus white produces a blue seal. Color-Changing Sealant Designed for Flexibles Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc., introduced its color-changing Chameleon sealant technology for all types of pouch heat seal applicaons. The coextrusion-coated sealant can be applied to any thermallystable substrate, including polyester, nylon and polypropylene and mullayer barrier structures. This seal-ant allows a film of one color to transfer a peel indicator of another color; the change in color indicates a package has been opened. This technology enhances product security in a simple, cost-effecve manner, by making bogus product easy for consumers to spot upon opening the package. It’s also a new vehicle for medical device and phar-maceucal manufacturers to communicate branding aributes or to color code pouched product. The color applicaon is transparent so the contents are visible, and the color palee of the seal can be extended through a variety of substrate and sealant combinaons. For example, a blue substrate, combined with a yellow coang, will produce a green seal indicator when the pouch is opened. – EJB More informaon Dwane Hahn, vice president, Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc.: 512.869.6620, dhahn@rollprint.com. FAB4–2012 Blister Sealer from Starview Packaging PACK EXPO INT’L 2012
Insulated Containers Control In-Transit Temperatures An efficient and customized container for transporng sensive refrigerated and frozen products was a prominent part of the Sonoco Packaging display. The container, from Sonoco ThermoSafe combines unique and proprietary liquids that maintain spe-cific temperature ranges with eco-friendly sustainable packaging. Puretemp® refrigerants and phase change materials keep temperature-crical packages at precise temperatures during transit. They are biodegradable and can be recycled for mulple uses. Available in a broad selecon of styles and a multude of sizes, they provide reliable temperature protecon that meets almost any product specificaon. The liquids are color coded to provide the end user with a simple way to pick the correct refrigerant temperature range. Sonoco ThermoSafe GreenBox and color-coded phase change refrigerant boles used in the sidewalls The units are supplied in pouches or rigid square blow molded boles that fit into pockets built into the side of the eco-friendly shipper. The company also offers lower cost expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) and polyurethane (PUR) insulated shippers to meet less stringent requirements. ThermoSafe also offers GreenBox, which it says is the industry’s first and only completely sustainable and reusable thermal management system. GreenBox is created from 100 percent organic-based mate-rials, and the phase-change materials that allow it to maintain product temperatures are non-toxic, fully biodegradable and suffer no thermal degradaon aer more than 20,000 uses. – EJB More informaon Prakash Mahesh, vice president, Sonoco: 847.632.9652; prakash.mahesh@sonoco.com. Stymieing Counterfeiters Even in the safest markets, counterfeing and diversion occur with alarming frequency, and brand owners are constantly on the search for an-counterfeing tools. Trends we saw: Containers: Laser etching molds with a surface paern results in a textured container that is difficult to copy and differenates the brand. Mold maker R&D/Leverage developed this process, and offers custom designs and standard paerns. Inkject Ink Markers: DNA Matrix security markers from DNA Technologies impart higher authencaon levels to connuous inkjet printer ink. OnCode, a division of Gem Gravure, uses a camera to compare the DNA strands in visible or invisible codes. Opons include ultraviolet and infrared fluorescent inks for porous surfaces. DNA strand-equipped security inks for nonporous surfaces are under development. E-Fingerprint technology from Systech Internaonal converts environmental “noise” of a package substrate to a sine wave and links it to the package’s unique barcode. Users scan and authencate the digital fingerprint with a smartphone and compare it against stored informaon. Holographic security labels from New Zealand-based Asuraseal Ltd. combine tamper evidence with up to nine opcal ancounterfeing levels, such as flip images and microtext. Holographic foil, fused into the seal area through hot-stamping or rolling processes, bonds to most substrates, including materials with a UV varnish. – HEF More informaon Robert Schiavone, global markeng director, R&D/Leverage: 816.525.0353, ext. 6305; rschiavone@rdleverage.com; www.rdleverage.com Ramona Krogman, markeng manager, OnCode: 781.763.0478; rkrogman@oncodeinc.com; www.oncodeink.com Dave Harty, vice president, Product Development, Systech: 800.847.7123; markeng@systech-ps.com; www.systech-ps.com John Darby, sales and markeng manager, Asuraseal Ltd: +64.21.622.661; info@asuraseal.com; www.asuraseal.com Built-In Desiccants for Pharmaceuticals Clariant Funconal Materials – formerly Sud-Chemie — displayed a pharmaceucal cap that combines tamper-evident, child-resistant and twist-off funconalies with a built-in desiccant. The cap can use tradional silica gel desiccants and newer polymeric absorbers incorporated in the closure to maintain a low-moisture or low-oxygen environment . – EJB More informaon Mark A. Florez, markeng, Clariant Funconal Materials: 505.244.7066, mark.florez@clariant.com. Monoblock Fills Bag-on-Valve Aerosols Cap by Clariant Funconal Materials includes desiccant and safety features Rotary RI36-509 sanitary bag-on-valve filler from MBC Aerosol replaces hydrogen-based propellants with compressed air. The dou-ble-indexing monoblock with 36-inch-diameter disc handles up to 50 containers/minute (cpm) via two under-the-cup gassers, six through-the-valve product fillers and two stem cleaners. Higher speeds, up to 300 cpm, can be achieved with a larger disc. Cans 23 PHARMACEUTICAL
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