Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News
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Originally Published PMPN June 2005
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Industry BriefsCopac Inc. (Spartanburg, SC) was recently honored with a Best Category award in the Printing Industry of the Carolinas (PICA) Awards competition. The company was recognized for customer printing projects that showcased its rotary letterpress, as well as offset printing and finishing, capabilities.
EVC Films Pharma Division has relocated its Tennessee sales offices to Delaware City, DE. The site will be the new location for EVC Films’ manufacturing facility, which is scheduled to be in operation by first quarter 2006. When completed, the new plant will include the latest in films manufacturing technology and practices from a local manufacturing base.
Key Principal Partners (KPP; Cleveland) has announced that it will invest $10 million in subordinated capital to refinance the senior and subordinated debt of Cloud Packaging Solutions llc (Des Plains, IL). The transaction provides Cloud’s management with increased operating flexibility for growth through transactions. Cloud provides outsourced packaging solutions for OTC pharmaceutical and other industries. It also designs and manufactures high-speed packaging equipment and has developed solutions for machinery based on continuous-motion horizontal form-fill-seal technology.
Precisia LLC (Ann Arbor, MI) has announced that it is partnering with Impinj Inc. to launch a line of RFID products utilizing the Impinj family of chips. Through the partnership, Precisia will design, prototype, test, and print its own antennas for the inlays it produces with the chips, or will print existing antenna designs developed by Impinj. Precisia-designed RFID antennas have been used by Impinj for more than a year.
New packaging design and manufacturing firm AdvancePak Inc. (Acton, MA) has officially opened its doors. The company specializes in custom-designed product packaging that utilizes plastic film and corrugated paperboard materials. In addition, it offers a packaging concept featuring a product suspended in the middle of a shipping box or container.
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