Healthcare Packaging News and Top Issues February 2023

Single-dose packaging trend, barriers to sustainable packaging, new alternative to PETG/Tyvek, patient-centered packaging, sterilization options, more.

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Packaging departments of medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers need to keep up with regulatory updates, sustainability solutions, new technologies, and major issues impacting their packaging decisions. On a regular basis, Packaging Digest finds and reposts related healthcare packaging news, videos, and opinions found on social media, with the most recent “find” at the top.

Here is the stream of curated news and developments from February 2023. Click here to see the latest additions for the current month.

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Corning Inc. and SGD Pharma collaborate on glass production facility in India.

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Growing trend of single-dose packaging formats.

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Life support system loses CE mark for sterile packaging problems.

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Parenteral packaging market update.

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Barriers to adopting sustainable pharma packaging.

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Emerging trends in pharmaceutical packaging market.

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New alternative to PETG/Tyvek.

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Oliver Healthcare Packaging expands stock pouch program.

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Medical packaging films market.

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Oliver Healthcare to build manufacturing facility in Malaysia.

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Smart pill-dispensing solution.

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Investigating patient-centered packaging.

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Thermoformed plastics to reach $64.45 billion by 2030.

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Choosing the best sterilization method.

 

J-Pac Medical and Life Science Outsourcing join forces.

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Paperboard packaging forecast.

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Eastman and Exolon collaborate on rigid packaging.

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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about sterile barrier pouches.


Biodegradable pharmaceutical packaging market.

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Precision manufacturing for medical packaging.

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Edible packaging replaces single-use plastics.

 

Packaging Digest sponsors educational sessions at WestPack.

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Report on medical packaging films.

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Celebrating sterile packaging.

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BlackHägen Design contributes human-centric design to Bayer’s medical device packaging.

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For earlier Healthcare Packaging News and Top Issues items, click here.

About the Authors

Lisa McTigue Pierce

Executive Editor, Packaging Digest

Lisa McTigue Pierce is Executive Editor of Packaging Digest. She’s been a packaging media journalist since 1982 and tracks emerging trends, new technologies, and best practices across a spectrum of markets for the publication’s global community. Reach her at [email protected] or 630-272-1774.

Kassandra Kania

Freelance Writer

Kassandra Kania is a freelance writer based in Charlotte, NC. She has written extensively about healthcare packaging for a variety of publications.

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