From child-resistant pharmaceutical vials that can be opened with one hand to wine capsules incorporating an unprecedented amount of recycled tin, there are many new things under the sun when it comes to caps and closures.
Packaging Strategies has extensively covered recent innovations in caps and closures, each distinctly unique in materials, applications, and specific benefits.
From properly counting out pharmaceuticals to guaranteeing the proper bottling of wine — and even ensuring that the wine bottles themselves are up to snuff — inspection, detection and vision systems play a myriad crucial roles in CPG packaging.
The company’s CV35 ‘combination’ system, which integrates a checkweigher with vision inspection, detects and rejects under- and overweight packages to ensure that legal weight requirements are met and to reduce product giveaway.
In addition to offering their entire fleet of available blister packaging systems ready to run these challenging films, the company will offer upgrades for installed Pharmaworks blister machines in the field and can rebuild blister machines from other suppliers to handle these new sustainable films.
The need to modernize technology, automate, and provide sustainable solutions – plus supply chain woes – influence the billions being poured into expansion.
The addition of state-of-the-art thermoforming equipment at Amcor’s manufacturing plant in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, will support increasing demand from customers in the medical, pharmaceutical, and consumer health sectors.