Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging 2010

List of Speakers

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Web Based Serialisation Ready Labelling to Combat Counterfeiting within Medical and Pharmaceutical Supplies
  • Exploring the key issues in keeping your products safe from counterfeiting
  • Understanding the creation of unique serialisation codes for individual products during the production process
  • Managing secure high speed printing and verification of these codes
  • Having complete confidence in the subsequent efficent storage and retrieval of any these milions of codes at any point within the lifecycle of a product and beyond
Marcus Lawson, Prisym ID, Wokingham, United Kingdom
 
How to Prevent Counterfeiting
  • RFID
  • Secure shift technology and charms
  • Inksure chemicals
  • Covert screening capabilities
Rob Ryckman, CCL Label Inc., Hightstown, USA
 
RFID as Prescription in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Status of technology
  • Applications covered by freqvency (HF vs LHF)

- packaging, logistics, anti counterfeiting

  • Case Stories / Return on investment
  • The near future - where to put your money
Peter Greenfort, Beta technic ApS, Vedbaek, Denmark
 
Biopolymers - The Natural Choice?
  • Sustainable packaging solutions
  • Biopolymers put in the broader perspective
  • Opportunities and obstacles in flexible packaging
  • Availability today and in the Future?
Mariette Andersson, Flextrus AB, Lund, Sweden
 
Active Pharma Packaging: Laminates with Desiccant
  • Moisture sensitive pharmaceutical products
  • Coldform blister laminates with desiccant
  • "Shelf life" extension over many years
  • Reduction of packaging complexity and costs
Oliver Brandl, Amcor Flexibles Singen GmbH, Singen, Germany
 
Advances in Adhesion Solutions for Medical Packaging Applications
  • Adhesion challenges of pharmaceutical and medical devices packaging
  • Surface preparation techniques and their effectiveness
  • AdPro Plus adhesion systems for various difficult plastics and metallic substrates
  • Adhesion solutions for applying barrier coatings, particulary Parylenes
Rakesh Kumar, Specialty Coating Systems Inc., Indianapolis, USA
 
Effectively Responding to Evolving Industry Trends and Legislation Affecting Label Management
  • Exploring future requirements for country specific labelling and packaging
  • Successfully managing these changing statutory legal requirements, whilst meeting label space and branding needs
  • Reviewing options such as web based technology to meet the challenges of global label management across disparate locations
  • Identifying how to become more efficent to improve label production accuracy - saving both time and money
Dave Taylor, Prisym ID, Wokingham, United Kingdom
 
Packaging Material Qualification
  • Specifications
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Compatibility studies
  • Supplier audits
Helen Brown, AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
 
From Batch Manufacturing to Serialized Manufacturing: A Track & Trace System
  • Comprehensive, end-to-end: to readily implement serialized product packaging
  • Modular and flexible: to apply to a variety of product and line configurations
  • Self- contained: to be connected to existing corporate systems through well defined, industry- standard interfaces. Thus minimizing impact and disruptions on existing data flows
Francesco Nicastro, G.D. SpA, Bologna, Italy
 
Safe Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs in Hospital Pharmacies
  • The risk of handling cytotoxic for clinical use in hospitals and hospital pharmacies
  • How to create a safe work environment for the handling of cytotoxics
  • Creating quality circles to develop a safe place envirinment in hospitals
  • The interaction of plastic and rubber with cytotoxics
  • Robots as a tool for reducing personnel exposure and reduction of failures in preparation of cytotoxis
Vagn Handlos, Capital Region Pharmacy, Herlev, Denmark
 
Impact of Topics such as RFID, Counterfeiting and Environment on Medical Packaging Equipment
  • Practical application of the use of RFID inside a packaging machine for medical devices
  • Realisations and possibilities inside a thermoforming machine, to minimize counterfeiting
  • New developments for more environmental friedly machine
Luc Van de Vel, Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller GmbH & Co. KG, Wolfertschwenden, Germany
 
Methods and Technologies Meeting Growing Demands for Secure Solutions for Labels and Packaging
  • Brandprotection
  • Security
  • Track and tracability
  • Tamper evident
  • Authentication
Sten Wandel and Fredrik Blomquist, Nordvalls / Lund University, Sjöbo, Sweden
 
The Role of Packaging in Enhancing Sustainability and the Use of Cradle to Grave Analysis for Flexible Medical Packaging
  • The sustainability journey
  • Environmental benefits - key metrics
  • Additional benefits
  • Examples of innovative new products
  • The Sealed Air life cycle analysis tool
  • Example of a reduced emissions medical packaging material
  • Summary
Nicholas Berendt, Sealed Air Limited, Cambs., United Kingdom
 
Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting, the Threats Posed and the Countermeasures Available
  • Counterfeiting of pharmaceutical products, the scale of the problem
  • Regulatory and other initiatives
  • The countermeasures available to the supplier
  • Mass serialisation as a tool in anticounterfeiting, a world perspective
Paul Osborne, Performance PharmaTech Ltd., United Kingdom
 
Tightness of a Primary Plastic Pharmaceutical Packaging
  • What factors have an impact on tightness?
  • What is the weak link?
  • Some comparative tests
  • Different solutions
Glenn Svedberg, Nolato Cerbo AB, Trollhättan, Sweden
 
Security in Packaging
  • Security against fake: To make a secure packaging you need to create a key, which like a password can be changed without high cost over time.
  • Security of children: Child proof packaging is also a feature, which can be solved with different solutins. I will be able to show a solution for blister packaging using a special aluminium blister foil
Henrik Aunstrup, Eson Pac AB, Skovlunde, Denmark
 
Compliance Packaging - The Future of Healthcare
  • The problem
  • Compliance packaging
  • Material
  • Intelligent solutions
  • Connected health
Sari Hakli , Stora Enso Packaging, Imatra, Finland