Pianoro (Bologna) – Today a new Made in Italy mechanical company is joining Marchesini Group, a Bologna-based multinational that specialises in the production of industrial lines for pharmaceutical packaging, including Covid-19 vaccines, and cosmetic products. The company, Dott. Bonapace, based in Cusano Milanino (Milan), manufactures laboratory machines used for Research and Development and small industrial production of consumables.

Formerly a historic Lombardy-based pharmacy founded in 1872 and then a small manufacturer of machinery for galenic products, Dott. Bonapace was founded in 1946. Over the following decades, three generations of the Bonapace family helped transform the founder’s dream into a pharmaceutical company capable of meeting the needs of over 5,000 customers worldwide, including ministries of health and state-owned enterprises in many countries. This success story “from the bottom up” reflects the passion and dedication of Marchesini Group, which started out in a garage in Pianoro (Bologna) and over the course of 45 years has become one of the world’s leading players in the packaging business, with 2,000 employees and a turnover of 430 million euros.

With this move, Marchesini Group is acquiring 70% of the shares in Dott. Bonapace and expanding its already extensive machine park with new technologies that handle special products such as suppositories and capsules.

“We have made a number of important acquisitions in recent years, but Dott. Bonapace is our first venture into the laboratory machinery market” commented Marchesini Group CEO Pietro Cassani. “Entering this new segment - as was the case for the high-level software segment - will allow us to further diversify our portfolio of mechanical companies and better manage the supply chain during this current period of recovery”.

Flavio Gallocchio, marketing manager at Dott. Bonapace, remarked: “My partner Simone Berto and I are proud to inform customers, suppliers and employees that our company has now become part of the prestigious Marchesini Group. We are therefore celebrating our 75th year in business together, confident that this collaboration will once again showcase Italian excellence worldwide”.

The acquisition will have an immediate highlight: the attendance of Marchesini Group and Dott. Bonapace at CPhI Worldwide, in Milan from 9 to 11 November, dates that will mark the great return of international trade fairs devoted to pharmaceutical technologies. For the occasion, Marchesini Group will be exhibiting a BL-A418 CW Print&Check machine, a solution designed to meet the needs of pharmaceutical product tracking for anti-counterfeiting purposes. 

On October 12th, during the Pharmapack Awards Ceremony, a team of industry experts awarded Symbioze, Nemera’s large-volume on-body injector, with the Pharmapack Award in the “Connected Devices and Wearables” category.

Nemera’s novel on-body injector platform, Symbioze, comprises of a reusable main unit and disposable prefilled drug container module. It offers an ideal balance between the need to deliver advanced formulations at high volumes - up to 20 ml - and patient’s ease-of-use required for self-administration at home. It is the perfect combination between design robustness, ease of use, connectivity, and sustainability, for a seamless and enhanced injection experience.

Symbioze is specifically tailored to administer complex drugs, such as biologic therapies, thanks to a highly engineered, reliable drug delivery system. It is suitable for large volumes such as 20ml and beyond, while preserving the formulation integrity – which is critical especially with monoclonal antibodies. It is designed to reconcile complex drugs injection with stakeholders’ (patients, HCP or payers) most demanding needs, with enough flexibility for adjustment to any pathology, targeted patient population and drug posology. Its reusable core technology can be re-used across multiple injections, leveraging its sustainable benefit for pharmaceutical players.

“We are very delighted and pleased to receive this prestigious award. This is a recognition to our long-standing commitment to put patients first as well as our innovation capabilities.” – said Séverine Duband, Nemera’s Marketing Director, Drug Delivery Devices – “Over the last decade, several trends impacted the parenteral environement: shift towards at-home and value-based care, growth of biologics, connected health technologies, waste management. These continuously fueled a need for an easy self administration of large dose volumes. With this in mind, we developped our on-body injector platform Symbioze, to deliver large volumes at home, in a sustainable and userfriendly way.”

Bernhard Rohn, VP of Strategy and Marketing, added: “We are very delighted to have received the Pharmapack award for our Symbioze wearable. We developed Symbioze to provide an intuitive and easy-to-use solution for patients, combining high injection volumes up to 20ml, a sustainable reusable/disposable product architecture and compatibility with standard pharmaceutical filling- and final-assembly processes.”

Launched in 1997, the Pharmapack Awards celebrate the latest innovations from packaging companies within the drugs, medical devices, health products and veterinary drugs sectors.

Symbioze at a glance:

BENEFITS

Sustainable and cost-effective

Reusable electromechanical part with disposable drug-containing module

• Intuitive and easy to use for optimum treatment adherence

Simultaneous removal of ergonomic needle safety cap and adhesive liner, minimizing steps-of-use

Provides live injection monitoring, audio-visual feedback, and failure mode control

Enhanced treatment management with a broad range of connectivity features: treatment information, historical trending, infusion status, compliance…

Easy pairing between device manager application and the core system

• Ideal for complex, novel drugs administration whilst staying in line with pharma standards

Enables large volume injection (up to 20ml), with adjustable parameters (i.e: flowrate, viscosities, dose volume…)

Specifically tailored for biologics to preserve formulation integrity

Compatible with standard cartridges, filling and manufacturing processes

KEY FEATURES

Patch-worn on-body injector

Reusable:

sable: o Consists of drug-containing disposable element and reusable, rechargeable onboard electronic modules

Locking system for safe assembly and disassembly of reusable and disposable parts

Ready to use:

Prefilled and preloaded drug cartridge for patient’s safety

Automatic soft canula insertion via needle safety system with hidden needle throughout the injection

Innovative fluid path to maintain sterility from manufacturing to device use

Platform approach:

Provides customization flexibility for adjustments to any pathology, targeted patient population and drug posology

Can accommodate various drug volumes especially for large-volume administration (20ml)

Connected:

Drug recognition and verification via NFC communication

Bluetooth built-in communication offers connectivity option

Find Nemera on the web at www.nemera.net

As a world-leading drug delivery device solutions provider, our purpose of putting patients first enables us to design and manufacture devices that maximize treatment efficacy.

We are a holistic partner and help our customers succeed in the sprint to market of their combination products. From early device strategy to state-of-the-art manufacturing, we’re committed to the highest quality standards.

Agile and open-minded, we work with our customers as colleagues. Together, we go the extra mile to fulfill our mission.

 

LINHARDT’s mission is to provide “packaging for your life”. As cannabis products increasingly become a part of many peoples' lives, we’ve spent the last year developing a range of secure and high-quality cannabis packaging solutions. We’re excited to announce, that for the first time ever, LINHARDT exhibits at CannaCon Midwest 2021 Chicago, on

Vacuum Skin Packaging is a highly efficient packaging film with excellent optical properties. It extends the shelf-life of fresh products like meat and fish up to three weeks. The material usage is reduced compared to conventional Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP). This webinar explains the seamless step-by-step journey — from resin via extrusion

Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM CT It seems like a weekly event – the introduction of another collaborative palletizing solution powered by collaborative robots from Universal Robots. This new breed of robotic palletizers come in all configurations, from scalable mechanical kits to turnkey systems. But at the core, all are

Garment packaging is the procedure of wrapping, compressing, filling or creating of goods for the purpose of protection too their appropriate handling. This is the concluding procedure inward the production of garments, which prepares the finished trade for delivery to the customer. It is an of import part of the garment manufacturing process. Garment packaging is also job to learn lot of attending from the customer. After completing the entire manufacturing task, wearing clothing is required to live packed. After packing, it is placed inward cartons every bit per instructions too and so it is stored inward a shop subdivision earlier it is delivered to the respective buyer.

Flowchart of Garment Packaging:

Received garments from the finished subdivision

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Hang tagging

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Folding amongst inserting dorsum board, tissue

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Poly Bagging

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Cartooning

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Applied adhesive record on the pack

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Bar-coding

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Packing consummate

The basic types of parcel forms used for garment packaging are bags, boxes, cartons, cases, wrappers etc.

The basic properties packaging material  to be used in packaging of apparels are clarity, thickness, weight, yield, tensile strength, flammability, moisture resistance, sunlight transference, resistance to odors and Dimensional stability to estrus too sunlight. 

Based on Garment Packaging:

Different types of packaging are there for different types of garments. Following is the most used packing types –

• Stand up pack: Shirt (90° angle)
• Flat pack: Sport wear/Shirt/Trouser
• Hanger pack: Blazer, Coats, Pants
• Semi stand up pack: Shirt
• Half fold pack: Pant

 Packaging Design

Merchandising packaging

The merchandise package is the unit the consumer receives when he selects the product. What functions must a merchandising package perform in order to stimulate sales of the product in the package? From the consumers point of view the merchandise package should :

• Identify the product
• Enhance the appeal of the product
• Attract the consumer to the package
• Protect the product quality until the consumer uses the item

Transparent plastic film is useful in meeting all of the requirements. Seeing the product makes it easy to identify and attract the consumer. Colour and design on the package are other ingredients that are used to identify, enhance and attract. The manner in which the product is packaged geometrically is a big factor in enhancing the appeal of the garment. The utility of the package is a big factor in attracting the consumers. The artistic value of a package is another persuader which attracts consumer.

 

Vacuum Packaging

The function of a vacuum packaging is:

• To reduce the shipping bulk of unfinished garments
• To reduce the shipping weight of garments shipped
• To prevent a garment from accumulating dust or objectionable odours before and during shipping
• To prevent garments from acquiring wrinkles or creases, during shipping, this will have to be removed before the retailer displays the garments
• To minimize storage space for both the manufacturer and retailer

Vacuum packaging is used not only for packing and storing garments, but also for packaging household accessories made from textiles, such as blankets, bedspreads, pillows and towels-anything with bulk that can be easily compressed.

Vacuum packaging was introduced in the 1970s by Swematex AB, of Ganghester, Sweden. (Rheemes Textile Systems, Inc., New York City, is the U.S. licensee for this equipment.) The system consists of:

• Reducing the moisture content of the garment;
• Encasing the garment in a plastic film sack; after which
• The air in the sack and garment are vacuumed out as the garment is compressed within
• Which is sealed at the end of the vacuum and compression cycle.

The moisture content is removed by passing the hung garment on a conveyor through a conditioning chamber which decreases the moisture content of the garment with hot dry.

 Shipment Packaging

The shipment package performs the distributors function. It is the package the carrier receives and delivers to the retailer. It delivers the merchandise package to the retailer (or the wholesaler).

Shipping packing’s may be divided into the classes with respect to the protection from

• Closed containers carrying garments

1. covered completely individually by a merchandising package (closed merchandising packages)
2. without a covering merchandising package (an open merchandising package)

• Open containers carrying garments

1. In closed merchandising packages,
2. In open merchandising packages.

Costs, suits, or dresses transported without individual covers on hangers, suspended from portable hanger racks, are examples of open merchandising packages carried in open containers. Cartons with hanger racks. “Hanger Pac”, are examples of closed containers designed to carry the garments in open or closed merchandising packages. In fact, any shipping packages can carry open or closed merchandising packages.

In order to protect and preserve the merchandise package and its garment during the distribution process, the shipping package can be designed to do the following:

• Fusion, (2) separate, (3) brace, and (4) ward for water and dirt. A shipping package is proper when it prevents normal loads and pressures exerted on it, during the distribution process, from damaging the merchandise package or its garments.

Packaging Materials

• Plastic clip
• Paper board
• Wooden Boxes and Crates
• Butterfly
• Plastic collar
• Tag pin
• Ball head pin
• Poly bag
• Inner box
• Tissue paper
• Carton
• Scotch tape

Active packaging is a form of smart packaging that intentionally absorbs or releases compounds from or to the food incased in it. These compounds are added to extend the quality and shelf life of the food product. They do so by slowing down internal reactions that degrade the food. These include lipid oxidation, microbial growth, and loss of moisture.

Scavengers and Emitters are the two types of compounds incorporated into active packaging. In this blog, we will discuss the different types of scavengers.

Scavengers have historically been packed in separate sachets within the primary packaging but now can also be embedded within the primary packaging structure. Technological development has helped reduce costs and simplified manufacturing and use in many ways.

There are 3 types of scavengers:

1. Ethylene Scavengers: Ethylene scavengers slow down the ripening process of the contents. They are usually added to the packaging in sachets. Ethylene scavengers contain zeolite or potassium permanganate and absorb ethylene and moisture released to reduce senescence. They also contain sodium metabisulfite salt which releases sulfur dioxide if it comes in contact with water.

If the scavenger is incorporated in the headspace of the packaging, 1-methyl cyclopropane is used to diffuse ethylene blockers and slow senescence.

 

2. Oxygen Scavengers: These contain iron or ascorbic acid and stall oxidation. They also inhibit microbial growth. The substrate of choice is incorporated into a polymer structure as either light-sensitive dyes or sacrificial unsaturated dienes. Recent development has also allowed consumers to activate oxygen scavengers in opened resealable packages.

3. Moisture Scavengers: Moisture scavengers control moisture inside a package and absorb any liquid seeping from the food. Many different substrates are known to absorb excess moisture. These include clays, humectants, zeolites, and high-capacity hydrogels.

In the next blog, we will cover the other type of compounds used in active packaging: Emitters.

The packaging industry, while might appear to be concentrated and operational in a small niche, caters to a wide variety of manufacturers and suppliers. In this blog, we will list the major Indian packaging companies that support the pharmaceutical industry.

 

1. UFlex Limited

UFlex is an Indian-based international company that caters to clients in about 140 different countries. Its products include BOPET Films, BOPP Films, CPP Films, Flexible Laminates & Pouches, Holograms, Packaging & Converting Machines. It is India’s largest flexible packaging company and has been a multi-billion dollar company since it was founded in 1985. UFlex’s manufacturing facilities enjoy ISO & HACCP accreditations and its products are approved by FDA.

 

2. Essel Propack Limited

Essel Propack is one of the largest global specialty packaging providers. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of laminated plastic tubes with 20 state-of-the-art facilities operating across  10 countries which include the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Poland, Germany, Egypt, Russia, China, the Philippines, and, of course, India. Essel Propack emphasizes an eco-friendly approach towards packaging methods. It has produced recyclable tubes and all its packaging materials can be recycled using HDPE.

 

3. ACG Worldwide

ACG Group started off as a manufacturer of empty hard capsules headquartered in Mumbai and now has a presence in over 100 countries. The films and foils division offers specialty packaging films, high-barrier films, pharmaceutical-grade and camera-inspected range of aluminum-based foils, anti-counterfeiting packaging solutions, and polymer films. The products comply with international standards such as US FDA, Canada-DMF, ISO and European Pharmacopoeia.

 

4. Bilcare

Established in 1987, Bilcare is based out of Pune. It is a research-driven organization and its aluminum foils, polymer films, and anti-counterfeiting packaging solutions secure its competitive place in the packaging industry. Bilcare is also a dominant player in the blister packaging market. Its customer-centric approach and global collaborations allow it to be up to speed with the ever-changing, ever-growing industry. BIlcare’s highly qualified material science experts work towards creating high-quality and integrity products at optimal costs.  

Pianoro (Bologna) – Today a new Made in Italy mechanical company is joining Marchesini Group, a Bologna-based multinational that specialises in the production of industrial lines for pharmaceutical packaging, including Covid-19 vaccines, and cosmetic products. The company, Dott. Bonapace, based in Cusano Milanino (Milan), manufactures laboratory machines used for Research and Development and small industrial production of consumables.

Formerly a historic Lombardy-based pharmacy founded in 1872 and then a small manufacturer of machinery for galenic products, Dott. Bonapace was founded in 1946. Over the following decades, three generations of the Bonapace family helped transform the founder’s dream into a pharmaceutical company capable of meeting the needs of over 5,000 customers worldwide, including ministries of health and state-owned enterprises in many countries. This success story “from the bottom up” reflects the passion and dedication of Marchesini Group, which started out in a garage in Pianoro (Bologna) and over the course of 45 years has become one of the world’s leading players in the packaging business, with 2,000 employees and a turnover of 430 million euros.

With this move, Marchesini Group is acquiring 70% of the shares in Dott. Bonapace and expanding its already extensive machine park with new technologies that handle special products such as suppositories and capsules.

“We have made a number of important acquisitions in recent years, but Dott. Bonapace is our first venture into the laboratory machinery market” commented Marchesini Group CEO Pietro Cassani. “Entering this new segment - as was the case for the high-level software segment - will allow us to further diversify our portfolio of mechanical companies and better manage the supply chain during this current period of recovery”.

Flavio Gallocchio, marketing manager at Dott. Bonapace, remarked: “My partner Simone Berto and I are proud to inform customers, suppliers and employees that our company has now become part of the prestigious Marchesini Group. We are therefore celebrating our 75th year in business together, confident that this collaboration will once again showcase Italian excellence worldwide”.

The acquisition will have an immediate highlight: the attendance of Marchesini Group and Dott. Bonapace at CPhI Worldwide, in Milan from 9 to 11 November, dates that will mark the great return of international trade fairs devoted to pharmaceutical technologies. For the occasion, Marchesini Group will be exhibiting a BL-A418 CW Print&Check machine, a solution designed to meet the needs of pharmaceutical product tracking for anti-counterfeiting purposes. 

On October 12th, during the Pharmapack Awards Ceremony, a team of industry experts awarded Symbioze, Nemera’s large-volume on-body injector, with the Pharmapack Award in the “Connected Devices and Wearables” category.

Nemera’s novel on-body injector platform, Symbioze, comprises of a reusable main unit and disposable prefilled drug container module. It offers an ideal balance between the need to deliver advanced formulations at high volumes - up to 20 ml - and patient’s ease-of-use required for self-administration at home. It is the perfect combination between design robustness, ease of use, connectivity, and sustainability, for a seamless and enhanced injection experience.

Symbioze is specifically tailored to administer complex drugs, such as biologic therapies, thanks to a highly engineered, reliable drug delivery system. It is suitable for large volumes such as 20ml and beyond, while preserving the formulation integrity – which is critical especially with monoclonal antibodies. It is designed to reconcile complex drugs injection with stakeholders’ (patients, HCP or payers) most demanding needs, with enough flexibility for adjustment to any pathology, targeted patient population and drug posology. Its reusable core technology can be re-used across multiple injections, leveraging its sustainable benefit for pharmaceutical players.

“We are very delighted and pleased to receive this prestigious award. This is a recognition to our long-standing commitment to put patients first as well as our innovation capabilities.” – said Séverine Duband, Nemera’s Marketing Director, Drug Delivery Devices – “Over the last decade, several trends impacted the parenteral environement: shift towards at-home and value-based care, growth of biologics, connected health technologies, waste management. These continuously fueled a need for an easy self administration of large dose volumes. With this in mind, we developped our on-body injector platform Symbioze, to deliver large volumes at home, in a sustainable and userfriendly way.”

Bernhard Rohn, VP of Strategy and Marketing, added: “We are very delighted to have received the Pharmapack award for our Symbioze wearable. We developed Symbioze to provide an intuitive and easy-to-use solution for patients, combining high injection volumes up to 20ml, a sustainable reusable/disposable product architecture and compatibility with standard pharmaceutical filling- and final-assembly processes.”

Launched in 1997, the Pharmapack Awards celebrate the latest innovations from packaging companies within the drugs, medical devices, health products and veterinary drugs sectors.

Symbioze at a glance:

BENEFITS

Sustainable and cost-effective

Reusable electromechanical part with disposable drug-containing module

• Intuitive and easy to use for optimum treatment adherence

Simultaneous removal of ergonomic needle safety cap and adhesive liner, minimizing steps-of-use

Provides live injection monitoring, audio-visual feedback, and failure mode control

Enhanced treatment management with a broad range of connectivity features: treatment information, historical trending, infusion status, compliance…

Easy pairing between device manager application and the core system

• Ideal for complex, novel drugs administration whilst staying in line with pharma standards

Enables large volume injection (up to 20ml), with adjustable parameters (i.e: flowrate, viscosities, dose volume…)

Specifically tailored for biologics to preserve formulation integrity

Compatible with standard cartridges, filling and manufacturing processes

KEY FEATURES

Patch-worn on-body injector

Reusable:

sable: o Consists of drug-containing disposable element and reusable, rechargeable onboard electronic modules

Locking system for safe assembly and disassembly of reusable and disposable parts

Ready to use:

Prefilled and preloaded drug cartridge for patient’s safety

Automatic soft canula insertion via needle safety system with hidden needle throughout the injection

Innovative fluid path to maintain sterility from manufacturing to device use

Platform approach:

Provides customization flexibility for adjustments to any pathology, targeted patient population and drug posology

Can accommodate various drug volumes especially for large-volume administration (20ml)

Connected:

Drug recognition and verification via NFC communication

Bluetooth built-in communication offers connectivity option

Find Nemera on the web at www.nemera.net

As a world-leading drug delivery device solutions provider, our purpose of putting patients first enables us to design and manufacture devices that maximize treatment efficacy.

We are a holistic partner and help our customers succeed in the sprint to market of their combination products. From early device strategy to state-of-the-art manufacturing, we’re committed to the highest quality standards.

Agile and open-minded, we work with our customers as colleagues. Together, we go the extra mile to fulfill our mission.

 

 

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