Sterile Packaging Industry News
Get the latest Sterile Packaging Industry news and updates below. Cleanroom Connect brings you the latest news from around the world, featuring current topics in sterile packaging industry news including: medical device packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, sterile medical packaging, healthcare packaging, microelectronics packaging and nutraceutical packaging.
Wireless Implantable Medical Devices
MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs, monitor conditions inside the body, or treat disease by stimulating the brain with electricity or light.
Fujifilm Acquires Irvine Scientific
Fujifilm acquires Irvine Scientific to maximize their synergy in its significant and growing bio-medical businesses. FujiFilm expects increased demand and needs of biopharmaceutical products and regenerative medicine therapy and is driving current rapid growth of the cell culture media market and estimates continued strong growth in the coming years.
Hospital Superbug Infects Medical Devices
The antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacterium is one of the most globally harmful bacteria that causes nosocomial infections. Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered that the bacterium attaches to plastic medical devices using tiny finger-like structures. The researchers were able to develop antibodies that prevent the bacterial spread. Infections related to hospitals and medical devices form major healthcare problems worldwide. These infections are associated with the ability of pathogens to colonise both biotic and abiotic surfaces.
Sterile Manufacturing Facility Acquisition by Avara Pharmaceutical Services
Avara Pharmaceutical Services, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced that it has agreed to acquire the largest sterile manufacturing facility for injectable medicines in Canada from a leading global pharmaceutical company, as part of a continuing expansion of its global footprint.
Cancer Trap Invention Kills Cancer Cells
The University of Texas at Arlington has successfully patented in Europe an implantable medical device that attracts and kills circulating cancer cells that was invented by a faculty member. This cancer trap can be used for early diagnosis and treatment of metastasized cancer.
New Aseptic API Line Facility
The aseptic API line facility, which was officially opened today by AMRI leaders and local officials, was announced in November 2017 and enhances capacity at the site while complementing AMRI’s other aseptic API manufacturing plants in Bon Encontre and Tonneins, France.
New EU Medical Device Regulation Course
The New EU Medical Device regulation course has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant’s RAC recertification upon full completion. In 2012, the Commission adopted a package of measures on innovation in health. The package consisted of a Communication and two regulation proposals to revise existing legislation on general medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices.
GVSU, Beaumont Health partner on medical device innovation
GVSU, Beaumont Health develop medical device for people with neuromuscular diseases. A group of engineering students from Grand Valley State University partnered with Beaumont Health to create a medical device that has the potential to improve the quality of life for people with neuromuscular diseases.
Adventus Ventures Medical Device Incubator
Adventus Ventures, LLC is a venture capital company focused on medical device startups. Adventus Ventures, an incubator of medical device companies, recently announced that it has completed the first round of financing for several medical device portfolio companies.
Life Sciences Cleanroom Manufacturing Facility
Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, continues to expand its Greensboro campus with construction of a life sciences cleanroom manufacturing facility to support the launch of the company’s Life Sciences solution portfolio in North America.
Food Production Clean Rooms
Food Production Clean Rooms have become more and more commonplace in today’s food production industry. Increasing consumer demand for improved product standards, quality and shelf life has influenced many food industries to evaluate the use of cleanroom technology, especially those techniques aimed at control of microbial contamination for the food and beverage industry. When using Food Production Clean Rooms along with food or product processing, and packaging technologies the result has proven elevated product quality and safety improvements for the food industry.
Compounding Pharmacy Safety violations
In December, the Food and Drug Administration issued a thorough inspection report on PharMEDium’s Tennessee plant that resulted in a pause in pharmaceutical production, until otherwise permitted. PharMEDium, one of the nation’s largest compounding pharmacy companies, is owned by AmerisourceBergen. It supplies medications to about 77% of hospitals nationwide.
Sterile Packaging Industry News
Sterile Packaging Industry News and Advancements
The Sterilel Packaging Industry is a collection of companies, researchers and engineers who are actively involved in the mission critical packaging of sterile products, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and medical devices. The sterile packaging industry practices have been a very important part of the supply chain, providing certainty that our products and consumables are properly stored and contaminant-free, prior to use.
Sterile packaging is required for compliant medical products and medical devices
Sterile packaging is designed to keep bacteria and other impurities away from the contents of packages. The sterile packaging industry is responsible for making sure that the products we use as consumers remain contaminant free for our daily use. For medical devices, the sterile packaging industry plays a key role in safely delivering treatment to patients. Ensuring that all medical devices, products and containers are properly sterile and compliant with national, government and international standards, sterile packaging is a necessity to the well-being of our planet.
Sterile Packaging Industry Markets
Following are some of the products that are common in the sterile packaging industry:
Sterile Packaging Industry News
- Pharmaceutical Packaging
- Medical Device Packaging
- Nutraceutical Packaging
- Healthcare Packaging
- Medical Containment Packaging
- Medical Supplies Packaging
- Medical Equipment Packaging
- Pharmaceutical Repackaging
- Medial instruments
The sterile packaging cleanroom industry produces the controlled cleanroom environments whereby the products are packaged. These sterile packaging cleanroom facilities are often called “sterile packaging facilities” or “Packaging Cleanrooms”. The sterile medical packaging market has undergone significant growth within the pharmaceutical and biological sectors. Aging population and chronic diseases are paving a large road for the necessity of sterile packaging. It is “top-of-mind” for all sterile packaging industry companies to maintain integrity in their packaging materials, technologies and processes to achieve continued growth in the sterile medical packaging market.
Sterile Packaging Industry News Covering Many Products and Industries
Cleanroom connect curates sterile packaging industry news covering a variety of sterile packaging products, materials and applications.
- Pouches & Bags
- Gusset bags
- Header bags
- Liner tear bags
- Semi-ultra clean bags
- Spout pouches
- Thermoform trays
- Vials & ampoules
- Clamshells & lids
- IV containers
- Others
- Plastic Films
- Foils
- Papers
- Glass
- Non-woven
- Foam Sheets
- Others
- Medical supplies
- Gloves
- Scissors
- Syringes and needles
- Surgical tapes
- Others
- Medical equipment
- Surgical
- Therapeutic
- Diagnostic
- Pharmaceutical & biologics
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