Medical package testers are revealing a lot more about their subjects these days. How? Using high-frequency ultrasound, for one. With it, engineers can locate defects as small as 10 µm in packages. Attendees of HealthPack 2003 heard this news from Jack Richtsmeier, business development manager of Sonoscan Inc. The firm’s technology, Acoustic Micro Imaging (AMI), can locate voids, cracks, delaminations, and disbonds in many types of medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Cardinal Health, for instance, has used it to test foil laminate pouches.
But is such test sensitivity really necessary? This question kept popping up throughout the two-day conference, held in Scottsdale, AZ. The event also featured the second meeting of IoPP’s recently recharged Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee.
Register for the Return of PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO
After more than a year without in-person trade shows, attendee registration is now underway for the only comprehensive packaging and processing trade show in the world in 2021.
May 3rd, 2021
Registration opened today for PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2021 (Sept. 27-29, Las Vegas Convention Center) to welcome the industry back together at the only comprehensive packaging and processing event in the world this year.
“We continuously monitor the industry, and exhibitors and attendees alike are eager to return to conducting business and experiencing new machinery, materials, technologies and solutions in-person,” says Jim Pittas, president and CEO of show producer, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. “There is no substitute for seeing technology up close, manipulating materials and containers, experiencing controls systems, speaking to multiple vendo
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Apr 26th, 2021
Entries are now being accepted for the Institute of Packaging Professionals’ AmeriStar 2021 Package Awards competition. AmeriStar is one of the industry’s broadest and most prestigious design competitions. Winning packages are displayed at PACK EXPO in the Showcase of Packaging Innovations, and all AmeriStar winners are eligible for the World Packaging Organisation’s WorldStar Packaging Awards competition.
AmeriStar entries are accepted across 17 categories, and include three special top awards: Best of Show Award, Sustainable Packaging Award, and Design Excellence Award.
AmeriStar, one of the packaging industry’s oldest and most anticipated packaging competitions, showcases the most ground-breaking, innovative packages of the year. It provides global recognition for the superb work of your team and positions your company as an innovative packaging leader in the industry. All entries in this year’s competition will once again be critiqued by an in-pe
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