Plastic packaging specialist China Bottles (CB) says that nearly two thirds of the $3.3m worth of contracts it signed in June were with pharmaceutical companies based outside its home territory.
Major packaging player Rexam this morning announced that it will be
scooping up the plastics business of beleaguered firm
Owens-Illinois in a deal worth almost $2bn (€1.5bn).
Alpha Packaging has bought fellow US company Quality Container, a
specialist in plastic bottles for pharmaceutical and dietary
supplement products, for an undisclosed sum.
Germany-based drug packaging provider Gerresheimer has launched a
new closure system for tablet containers with a moisture-absorbing
system that it claims is unique in the market.
Global demand for pharmaceutical packaging is tipped to increase
6.3 per cent each year to create a $30 bn (€24.4 bn) market in
2009, pushed by emerging pharma industries, tighter government
standards on packaging and the burgeoning...
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Flexbumin, the first
human albumin preparation to be packaged in a flexible container,
reducing the risk of breakage while being more compatible with
hospital inventory storage systems.
Packaging company Alcan has said it plans to close its Cayey
pharmaceutical glass vial operation, based in Puerto Rico, in order
to streamline its North American vial manufacturing network.
Pharmaceutical packaging demand in the US is forecast to rise 4.7
per cent per year to $6.8 billion in 2008, driven by new Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) regulations that will require unit dose
containers for a range of drugs,...
UK pharmaceutical packaging firm Jaycare has been sold to venture
capitalists for the second time in four years, in a deal worth more
than £45 million (€67m).
Owens-Illinois has launched a line of child-resistant 'squeeze and
turn' packages that incorporate a closure and bottle system
suitable for solid oral dose uses
