Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News
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Originally Published July 1999
PRODUCT UPDATE
Basic, Functional Bottles
Standard or custom, bottles are made to hold nearly every pharmaceutical product.
The easiest choice for a pharmaceutical company to make may be whether to use glass or plastic bottles to package its products. Once that choice is made, there are hundreds of styles, sizes, colors, and shapes that are offered. If those choices aren't enough, many bottle manufacturers can create custom designs, ensuring that the customer has the exact container needed.
A line of wide-mouthed bottles are available in white, high-density polyethylene in 3-, 6-, 8-, and 14-pint sizes. These wide-mouth rounds are suitable for powders, vitamins, and nutritional items, and are also used for institutional sizes of branded products sold in specialty stores and warehouse outlets.
O. Berk Co., Union, NJ.
A variety of packaging components, including bottles, are available from a company specializing in glass and plastic packaging. In addition to bottles, the company offers dropper assemblies and disposable pipettes. A large inventory includes caps in all sizes and colors, graduated droppers and threaded assemblies, rubber and thermoplastic bulbs, child-resistant closures, and glass and plastic pipettes. Comar Inc., Buena, NJ.
Plastic bottles, systems, and components for the healthcare market are offered by a company that designs packaging. Materials used in plastic manufacturing include polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, ABS, thermoplastic elastomers, acetyl resins, polycarbonate, and resin CZ. The company provides product design, model making, prototype molding and assembly, and printing and decorating. The West Co., Lionville, PA.
An extensive selection of containers is offered by a company specializing in blow-molded bottles and packaging systems. The company's Modular Mold Technology is capable of producing up to 24 different bottle shapes simultaneously in one mold frame. This technology allows for the production of custom containers in less than eight weeks at an affordable price, says the company. Waddington Jaycare,
Carlstadt, NJ.
Glass and plastic bottles range from tiny eyedrop containers to tall cylinders. Plastic bottles include Boston round, cylinder round, drug oval, round wide-mouth packers, Blake wide-mouth packers, and square wide-mouth packers. Glass containers offered include serum vials, screw-neck tubing and diagnostic vials, glass scintillation vials, and reduced volume glass vials. Wheaton Worldwide Inc., Millville, NJ.
A frosted finish is available for a complete line of injection stretch blow-molded PET bottles. The frosted finish offers an attractive, upscale alternative to standard clear or tinted PET bottles, says the company. The frosted finish is available with clear PET and with any custom colors. Matrix Packaging Inc., Addison, IL.
