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As we adjust to the new normal with packaging playing an ever greater role in our lives, fears around packaging safety are front of mind. Six in ten consumers now claim to wash their hands thoroughly after touching packaged groceries and household products.

These fears could be eased today following the announcement that DS Smithis exclusively partnering with Touchguard to develop a new range of bacteria and virus-safeguarded sustainable cardboard packaging across its operations in Europe and North America.

Bormioli Pharma will showcasing new prototypes addressing connectivity, traceability, and patient adherence, as well as innovative and sustainable packaging, at Pharmapack Europe 2023.

For instance, Bormioli Pharma will present a new concept in ophthalmic drugs, a nebulizer (OptiMist) able to administer therapies, minimizing waste and making delivery easier and controllable through an app installed on smartphones.

The new TrayPAKer – the result of three years of extensive research and development – solves many of the food industry’s most pressing concerns.

First it helps companies keep pace with the rapidity of modern supermarket supply chains. Second, its flexibility, speed and throughput deliver higher performance than the increasingly scarce manual labour it is designed to replace. Third, its modular design and small footprint makes it adaptable to even the most restrictive real-estate. And finally, it can readily adapt and transition from plastic to cardboard punnet packaging.

Researchers from IIT Roorkee and Afflatus Gravure Private Limited, Noida, created an environment-friendly technology for flexible printing. In accordance with a licencing agreement signed in front of IIT Roorkee Director Professor KK Pant, other representatives of the company, and the research team, the institute has transferred the two innovations to a reputable packaging company.

After taking a close look at Apple’s latest noteworthy product,  AirPods, he had a lot to say about the box. Yes, the box. Upshot? Apple’s packaging proves that for the world’s most popular tech company, no detail is too small.

The Inaccessible Perfume project – exhibited at Design Miami – encloses the perfume within a recycled fibreglass material named Glebanite.

The limited-edition packaging includes three different colours, each with its own texture. Each form of packaging conceals one of three different fragrances by oneofthose.

Grey-toned blocks disguise the brand's Oxygen scent, black ones hide Sulphur, and the white set is filled with Curium.

Each of the 15 monoliths, described by Gotti as "modern fossils", are signed and numbered.

The new German Zkin Lab skincare brand caters to the individual skincare needs of its customers with personalised skincare products.

This is made possible through the use of skin analysis kits that measure relevant biomarkers on the skin. Artificial intelligence is then used to produce personalised skincare products based on this data.

The full routine kit is supplemented with a problem-specific serum in a 30 ml glass bottle with a pipette and a Sughera collar, and a cleanser in a 150 ml PET bottle with an oil pump.

Shemesh has launched the TKS-C60 complete robotics-enhanced packaging line for cosmetics, which is designed to handle the entire packaging process—feeding, filling, capping, labelling, case packing and palletizing cosmetics products of all shapes and sizes.
 

Aimed at pharmaceutical manufacturers, the new technology incorporates a 3D sensor to provide volumetric measurement in order to assess the integrity of a range of pharmaceutical solid dose and flexible barrier packaging.

The first application of the new technology will be released with Sepha’s latest model of non-destructive blister leak testers, the VisionScan 3D. This machine will use the 3D technology in combination with differential pressure and vacuum to detect leaks in individual blister pockets as low as 5μm.