Medical Plastics 2001 was held 17th - 20th September, 2001 in Copenhagen Denmark. The total number of participants was 95. Please follow the links below for details of the participating companies.

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A Review of Welding Processes for Packaging with Plastics
- Welding processes for flexible packages.
- Welding processes for rigid packages.
Ian Jones; TWI, Cambridge, UK.

Monitoring Temperature when Shipping Pharmaceutical Products
- General problems observed with sensitive goods.
- Temperature exposure during storage and shipment.
- Degradation, Arrhenius function and stability.
- Technologies in use, advantages and disadvantages.
- Primary and secondary packaging approach.
- Outlook - can one avoid the cold chain?
Karl-Heinz Romann; 3M Laboratories (Europe), Neuss, Germany.

Time-Temperature Indicators (TTI) on Pharmaceutical Packaging for Monitoring Shelf Life of Temperature Sensitive Products
- Basic principles of TTI.
- TTI characteristics of a product.
- Experience from the food industry.
- Commercially available products.
Peter Rönnow; Visual Indicator Tag Systems AB, Malmö, Sweden.

New Type 1 Neutral Glass with a Low Level of Aluminium
- Why launch a new type of glass?
- Technical information.
- Marketing information.
- Advantages for the pharmaceutical market.
- Conclusions.
Thierry Magnin and Lucien Fosse; Saint-Gobain Desjonqueres, Paris, France.

Development of a New Parenteral Closure System
- The development process.
- Features and benefits.
- Container closure integrity.
- Lyophilisation applications.
- Further developments.
Roger P Asselta and F William Bogle; Comar Inc, Vineland, New Jersey, USA.

Non-Destructive Package Leak Detection in the Food Industry
- Critical leakage for food quality.
- Leak test methods.
- Hydrogen as a tracer gas.
- Smart, visual package leak indicators - an overview.
Eero Hurme; VTT Biotechnology and Food Research, Esspoo, Finland.

Environmental Stress Cracking in Plastics
- The basics of environmental stress cracking.
- New test method for environmental stress cracking.
- Correlation with Hansen solubility parameters.
- Effects of molecular size and absorption rates of solvents.
Charles Hansen; Force Institute, Brøndby, Denmark.

Light Transmission of Packaging Materials
- Introduction to light transmission of packaging materials.
- Examples of light induced changes in food and pharmaceuticals.
- Determination of light transmission of packaging materials.
- Light transmission properties for different packaging materials.
Paul Schlemmer; DTI Packaging & Transport, Taastrup, Denmark.

How to Improve R&D Input, Final Product Quality Assurance and Process Control with Validated NIR Solutions
- New FT/NIR technology and new opportunities.
- Fibre optic development, quality and cost effectiveness.
- Validation of NIR based solutions.
- The use of chemometrics in pharmaceutical applications.
- Easy sample handling.
- How secure, accurate and precise is NIR?
Anders Larsen; Q-Interline ApS, Roskilde, Denmark.

Packaging Design and Development
- Visualising product benefits.
- Communicating functionality.
- The effects of connecting branding, product and packaging.
- The process of design development.
Lars Larson and Bo Linnemann; Kontrapunkt A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Optimisation of Medical Boxes made by Injection Moulding
- Built-in quality in injection moulded parts.
- Relation between material, part design and mould design processes.
- Typical, real-life examples.
- The importance of co-operation between parties involved in the development and
  production of plastic parts.
Morgens Papsøe; NKT Research Centre A/S, Brøndby, Denmark.

Experimental Design in Quality Assurance
- Robust testing of products.
- Reduced factorial designs.
- Matrixing, bracketing and ICH guidelines.
- Multivariate statistical process control.
Fredrik Lindgren; Umetrics AB, Malmö, Sweden.

A Matrix Approach to Cleaning Validation for the Contract Manufacturer
- A practical validation study set up.
- Matrix of all substances.
- Testing of model substances.
- Sampling plan and specifications.
Sander Mathôt; Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Olst, The Netherlands.

Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS) Hygiene Certification for the Packaging Industry
- Good hygiene practice (GHP) and good manufacturing practice (GMP).
- Hygiene certification.
- Trends in hygiene requirements.
- International approach.
- Secondary packaging for the pharmaceutical industry.
Steen H Rasmussen; DTI Packaging & Transport, Taastrup, Denmark.

Hygiene and Product Safety Management Systems for the Manufacture of Flexible Packaging
- Flexible packaging and HACCP.
- Customer requirements.
- Hygiene management.
- Accreditation scheme.
Detlev Schultz; 4P Verpackungen Ronsberg, Ronsberg, Germany.

Sterility Maintenance - The Danish Manufacturers' View on Documentation
- Presentation of guidelines for the Danish manufacturers of sterile medical devices.
- A Danish interpretation of the sterility maintenance requirements in EN868-1packaging materials and systems.
- Test methods.
- Why, how and who?
Mette Langkjær; Novo Nordisk A/S, Hillerød, Denmark.

Novel Plasma Coating of Glass and Other Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging Materials
- Introduction to a novel plasma.
- Details of glass coating project(s) and projects completed to date.
- Future developments for the pharmaceutical and medical packaging industry.
Danny Connaughton; EA Technology, Capenhurst, UK.

Label Printing on Demand
- An Introduction to the theory of White Line systems
Alan Edwards; Boehringer Ingelheim, Bracknell, UK. (Replaced by Willy Keller)

The White Line Concept
- Experience with existing White Line projects.
- Increasing demand for White Line applications.
- Partial White Line application.
Willy Keller; Romaco HAPA AG, Volketswil, Switzerland.(Replaced by Mike Weber also of HAPA AG)

Laser Marking of Pharmaceutical and Medical Products
- Why laser marking?
- Different laser marking technologies.
- Important factors in laser system installation.
- Case studies.
Ken Douglas; Macsa ID SA, Barcelona, Spain.