Community News

Articles pertaining to changes in personnel, company announcements and achievements within the healthcare packaging/life sciencies community.

Glenroy, Inc. Receives Four PIW Graphics Excellence Awards

Glenroy, Inc. won four Graphics Excellence Awards from Printing Industries of Wisconsin (PIW) in the 2010 Graphics Excellence competition....

Community News | August 31, 2010

HealthPack 2011 Call for Presentations

March 8-10 Hyatt Regency Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio...

Community News | August 31, 2010

RPA Launches New Website to Provide Comprehensive Industry Resource on Reusable Transport Packaging Systems

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) announced today the launch of a new website and logo in support of its mission to promote the expansion and value of reusable transport packaging systems....

Community News | August 30, 2010

TCP Reliable Announces the Acquisition of Isneaufroid

TCP Reliable, dedicated to ensure product integrity for the lifescience industry, recently completed a business acquisition with Isneaufroid, a manufacturer of temperature controlled packaging products located in Maromme, France....

Community News | August 30, 2010

Bosch's Aseptic Symposium 2010

90 packaging industry representatives and experts attended the international Aseptic Symposium by Bosch Packaging Technology, a Bosch division, in Stuttgart, Germany on 28- 29 July 2010....

Community News | August 30, 2010

Nestlé completes sale of Alcon to Novartis

Nestlé yesterday completed the sale of its remaining shares in Alcon to Novartis, representing around 52% of Alcon's share capital, for USD 28.3 billion....

Community News | August 27, 2010

Qosina Recognized For Second Consecutive Year on the "Inc. 5000" List

The editors of Inc. Magazine have included Qosina Corporation, parent company of Qosmedix®, on their 2010 “Inc. 5000” List, which acknowledges the top 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the United States....

Community News | August 27, 2010

Norwood Marking Systems Appoints Label House as Distributor in Western U.S.

Norwood Marking Systems announces the appointment of Label House as its distributor in California, Nevada and Arizona....

Community News | August 27, 2010

Jackson joins PrePak Holdings as chief executive officer

The board of directors of PrePak Holdings Inc. has named Renard Jackson to serve as the company’s new chief executive officer and president....

Community News | August 26, 2010

Novartis completes 77% majority ownership of Alcon adding new growth platform in eye care to its leading healthcare portfolio

Novartis announced that it has completed its purchase of Alcon stock from Nestlé resulting in 77% ownership of Alcon. This has been achieved by completing the acquisition of the remaining 52% of Alcon shares owned by Nestlé for a total...

Community News | August 26, 2010

DC Mtg: Learn How to Avoid a Warning Letter

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has taken steps to improve the effectiveness of FDA's enforcement system. As a result, medical device firms are reporting that FDA investigators are being more assertive when inspecting firms, increasing the number of 483 observations and...

Community News | August 26, 2010

Chris Ayers Elected Executive Vice President of Alcoa, Chief Operating Officer for Alcoa’s Global Primary Products Business

Alcoa announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Chris L. Ayers an Executive Vice President of the Company. Additionally, Ayers has been named Chief Operating Officer for Alcoa’s Global Primary Products business, effective immediately....

Community News | August 25, 2010

Key Technology Appoints Jeff Nickerson as Product Marketing Manager

Key Technology announces the appointment of Jeff Nickerson as Product Marketing Manager....

Community News | August 25, 2010

“Pack Tech” Sessions Aim to Enlighten Show-Goers with Industry Trends, Innovations and Best Practices

The CAMA group (Dorner, FOX IV, Morrison, and Spee-Dee) will be hosting a series of seminars on trends, innovations and best practices in the packaging industry in booth No. 3854 at Pack Expo (McCormick Place) in Chicago, Oct. 31 -...

Community News | August 24, 2010

Equipment Reliability Institute Fall Training Course

Who will benefit from the training? Packaging engineers, supply chain managers and product engineers need this course to better understand the cost implications of their design decisions....

Community News | August 17, 2010

Key Technology Appoints Steve Johnson as Product Marketing Manager

Key Technology announces the appointment of Steve Johnson as Product Marketing Manager for the company’s Process Systems line of products....

Community News | August 17, 2010

Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed to Host Live Webinar August 18

Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed, the global leader in checkweighing and an expert in track and trace systems, will host a webinar to identify and explain the questions you need to ask when considering a potential serialization equipment supplier....

Community News | August 12, 2010

Advanced Scientifics of Millersburg to Complete Expansion Project

Advanced Scientifics (ASI) would like to announce the completion of their latest expansion project....

Community News | August 12, 2010

Multivac announces new roles for management team members

Multivac, Inc., a supplier of packaging solutions for food, medical, consumer and industrial products, today announced new roles and responsibilities for three of its managers....

Community News | August 10, 2010

ImTech announces new patent approval for thermally ejectable UV Curable Fluids

Years of development work lead to the patent and resulted in ImTech providing three industry-leading, UV Curable inks for HP45 cartridges to the industrial printing market....

Community News | August 10, 2010

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