Interphex heads back to Puerto Rico

With more than 350 vendors, many displaying packaging machinery and materials, the fourth-annual conference and exhibition provides innovative packaging and developing technologies for biotechnology/pharmaceuticals. The show runs Feb. 1 to 2.

-- Packaging Digest, 1/1/2007

Interphex Puerto Rico is a valuable source of innovation, education and professional advancement for the pharmaceutical and drug-manufacturing industries, from process development through delivery to market. Scheduled for Feb. 1 to 2, the show will bring more than 350 leading industry suppliers to the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan. Sponsored by ISPE (the Society for Life Science Professionals) and Pharmaceutical Processing magazine, the event includes in-depth educational workshops and showcases products, packaging and services designed to help show visitors work more productively and efficiently in today's competitive and fast-paced marketplace.

Open from 1 to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, the show is co-located with Medical Device Puerto Rico, which serves the medical-device-manufacturing industry on the island and offers equipment, technology and services for the manufacturing and packaging of medical devices, as well as with Supply Chain & Logistics Puerto Rico, an event designed for professionals who want to source solutions and technology for procurement, inventory management, warehousing, material handling and transportation.

Interphex Puerto Rico also includes a comprehensive conference program both days, from 9 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., featuring regulatory issues, manufacturing technologies, packaging, facilities/engineering and biotechnology tracks. Topics include retrofitting containment to existing process equipment, aseptic techniques, integrating automation and electronic batch recording, x-ray inspection of packages and more. Exhibit registration before Jan. 12 is free. After that date and on-site exhibits-only, admission is $50; conference fees also increase after Jan. 12. For more information and registration details, visit www.interphexpuertorico.com.

The following exhibitor has a marketing message in this issue:

Multivac, Inc.—1735