Member Profiles

Howell Packaging is a well-established supplier to the pharmaceutical industry. We manufacture folding cartons, rigid boxes, and thermoformed plastics and provide contract packaging services and drug sample distribution and fulfillment services. The howell•CR•III® wallet is rated F=1, providing superior child resistance and senior friendliness.

Information Mediary is the maker of Med-ic®, an electronic compliance monitor that addresses non-compliance with prescribed medication by monitoring medication taking behavior in real time, tracking each dose removed by the patient. A smart medicine package which keeps a history of the exact time the patient removed each tablet, capsule or syringe – but not making it at all less convenient for the patient to use such a novel package. Ours is the biggest little company almost nobody ever heard of. www.informationmediary.com

Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging is an independent, privately held contract pharmaceutical packaging company located in St. Louis, Missouri. Utilizing leading-edge equipment, state-of-the-art technology, customer-focused performance and experience-based expertise, Legacy has grown rapidly into a recognized industry leader. Dedicated and responsive customer service and account reps offer Legacy clients best in class support; service that has resulted in a customer retention rate of over 98 percent.

Operating out of approximately 220,000 sf cGMP compliant facilities, Legacy is a full service solution provider offering innovative package design and engineering capabilities, cutting edge technology, state of the industry quality control and unparalleled project management and customer support. Legacy is built for rapid response and specializes in high speed bottle filling, blister packaging, and pouching as well as a full range of secondary packaging capabilities, inventory management, distribution services, and a variety of other value added services. Legacy serves the branded, generic, government, wholesale, and major retail markets and is the leading provider of Unit-of-Use packaging, including the Ecoslide-RX compliance package, to the major retail chains and drug manufacturers.

Legacy is registered with the FDA and licensed by the DEA to handle Schedule II-V drugs and L1 chemicals.

Liveo Research is an innovation-led solutions provider that partners with global pharmaceutical and healthcare industry to improve patient outcomes. The company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of pharmaceutical and medical blister films and foils, supplying a full range of thermoforming films. Liveo Research delivers effective, affordable solutions that enhance the speed and quality of drug discovery and help build and protect brands from counterfeiting. Liveo Research employs approximately 1, 100 and has a global footprint with modern manufacturing and R&D plants across the United States, Europe and Singapore. Its U.S. headquarters is located in Delaware City, DE and offers 180,000 square feet of space, including the LiveoOptima™ R&D lab, which specializes in discovering ideal packaging solutions through innovative formulation analysis techniques.

For more than 40 years, Honeywell and Aclar® have been the trusted choice for pharmaceutical packaging. Honeywell Aclar film is the benchmark in secure and dependable protection for your pharmaceutical products and offers you the opportunity for differentiation, faster speed to market and increased revenue.

Klöckner Pentaplast offers the industry’s most complete range of pharmaceutical blister packaging films. And the experience to guide you to the right film for your packaging needs. Domestic manufacturing ensures on-time delivery and uninterrupted supply. Wherever you package pharmaceuticals, we can supply identical high-quality Pentapharm® film from our sites in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Guaranteed formulations, complete traceability, lot-to-lot consistency, technical support, and yield and performance levels that reduce per-unit costs.

PVDC is the most widely used barrier polymer in pharmaceutical blister packaging, and Solvay is the world’s largest supplier of PVDC in this market. With over 40 years of safe, effective use, Solvay’s DIOFAN® PVDC latexes provide an unrivaled combination of water vapor and oxygen barrier to protect sensitive drugs.

The Tekni-Plex healthcare packaging businesses (Tekni-Plex Flexibles, Tekni-Films, Lameplast, LF of America and Beyers Plastics) produce flexible packaging for the medical device and pharmaceutical markets via nine manufacturing plants in North America and Europe. For medical devices, Tekni-Plex offers a broad portfolio of sterilizable packaging substrates including thermoformable medical tray films, coated and uncoated Tyvek®, heat- and cold-seal coated paper and films, medical grade laminates, die-cut lids, labels and cleanroom bags. For pharmaceutical applications, Tekni-Plex offers blister films and foil, film and paper laminates, unit- and multi-dose containers.

Winpak manufactures high-quality flexible packaging films and foils. We offer a range of products in blister foil and pouches. With over 30 years in the packaging industry, Winpak is the preferred supplier for proven performance and cost effectiveness. Today, Winpak offers popular flexible packaging brand names such as Drug-Pak®, Safety-Pak®, Safety-Pak® Plus and WinForm® 25-24-60.

ACG Pharmapack is a significant manufacturer of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical blister packaging films focusing on high barrier polymer and aluminium products. These include pvc, pvc-pvdc, aclar, cold-form blister and related products for different therapeutic segments. The company has factories in India and in Brazil, with warehouses, service centres and agents in many continents serving pharma and nutraceutical customers around the world. With fast growth, ACG Pharmapack regularly upgrades its equipment and processes. ACG’s directors are alumni of the Harvard Business School, Cambridge University, London University and Ann Arbor, USA, and its talented and experienced leadership team is drawn from several advanced countries.

Amcor is focused on improving patient compliance with unit dose CR/SF solutions that offer a smaller footprint. We aim to partner with customers at early stages in the drug manufacturing process to ensure package design and functionality fit with the drug regimen. Amcor’s flexible pharmaceutical product line ranges from blister pack lidding to laminates for pouches and stickpacks and we hold expertise in high barrier, anti-counterfeit and compliance packaging solutions.

American Packaging Corporation (APC) and APC Healthcare® have 50 years of flexible packaging experience with healthcare customers. APC Healthcare focuses on Pharmaceutical, Medical, Diagnostic, Biologic and Nutraceutical companies, together improving patient safety and compliance. With five Centers of Excellence with State-of-the-Art manufacturing and quality systems, APC’s capabilities include printing (HD Flexographic, Rotogravure, Digital), lamination (Extrusion and Adhesive), and coating. APC manufactures a variety of laminations of film, paper and foil for Rollstock, Labels, Lidding and Pouches.

Liveo Research is an innovation-led solutions provider that partners with global pharmaceutical and healthcare industry to improve patient outcomes. The company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of pharmaceutical and medical blister films and foils, supplying a full range of thermoforming films. Liveo Research delivers effective, affordable solutions that enhance the speed and quality of drug discovery and help build and protect brands from counterfeiting. Liveo Research employs approximately 1, 100 and has a global footprint with modern manufacturing and R&D plants across the United States, Europe and Singapore. Its U.S. headquarters is located in Delaware City, DE and offers 180,000 square feet of space, including the LiveoOptima™ R&D lab, which specializes in discovering ideal packaging solutions through innovative formulation analysis techniques.

Constantia Flexibles is a cGMP compliant onverter of foils and films. We offer customized packaging solutions, along with blister packaging standards of cold-formable, child-resistant and easy peel or push-through lidding stock. CHF technology includes laminating, coating, rotogravure printing and slitting from our production plant in South Carolina.

The Tekni-Plex healthcare packaging businesses (Tekni-Plex Flexibles, Tekni-Films, Lameplast, LF of America and Beyers Plastics) produce flexible packaging for the medical device and pharmaceutical markets via nine manufacturing plants in North America and Europe. For medical devices, Tekni-Plex offers a broad portfolio of sterilizable packaging substrates including thermoformable medical tray films, coated and uncoated Tyvek®, heat- and cold-seal coated paper and films, medical grade laminates, die-cut lids, labels and cleanroom bags. For pharmaceutical applications, Tekni-Plex offers blister films and foil, film and paper laminates, unit- and multi-dose containers.

Winpak manufactures high-quality flexible packaging films and foils. We offer a range of products in blister foil and pouches. With over 30 years in the packaging industry, Winpak is the preferred supplier for proven performance and cost effectiveness. Today, Winpak offers popular flexible packaging brand names such as Drug-Pak®, Safety-Pak®, Safety-Pak® Plus and WinForm® 25-24-60.

ACG Pharmapack is a significant manufacturer of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical blister packaging films focusing on high barrier polymer and aluminium products. These include pvc, pvc-pvdc, aclar, cold-form blister and related products for different therapeutic segments. The company has factories in India and in Brazil, with warehouses, service centres and agents in many continents serving pharma and nutraceutical customers around the world. With fast growth, ACG Pharmapack regularly upgrades its equipment and processes. ACG’s directors are alumni of the Harvard Business School, Cambridge University, London University and Ann Arbor, USA, and its talented and experienced leadership team is drawn from several advanced countries.

Howell Packaging is a well-established supplier to the pharmaceutical industry. We manufacture folding cartons, rigid boxes, and thermoformed plastics and provide contract packaging services and drug sample distribution and fulfillment services. The howell•CR•III® wallet is rated F=1, providing superior child resistance and senior friendliness.

Locked4Kids (“L4K") is the world’s first reclosable Child Resistant/Senior-Friendly carton, it is F=1 certified to meet the highest standards set by the US CPSC (US16 CFR 1700.20) and the ISO/EN 8317 criteria for reclosable CRSF packaging.

Our carton offers the design flexibility to include Adherence features as well as Child Resistance/Senior Friendly solutions and can also be filled on a standard folding carton line.

The L4K business model is also very unique. L4K is a technology that is licensed directly to the brand owner which allows them to control the supply chain and work with their own suppliers for manufacturing the packaging components.

Platinum Press is a leading supplier of healthcare packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical, medical device and animal care sectors. Platinum Press offers a broad range of innovative printed packaging components designed exclusively for the healthcare industry. This includes labels, folding cartons, blister packaging and printed literature such as inserts, outserts and medication guides. Platinum Press has over 220,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space at its Fort Worth, Texas site.

For more information, call (469) 733- 1506 or visit www.PlatinumPress.com.

MPS-Westrock takes a patient-centric approach to clinical trial, prescription and OTC pharmaceutical packaging solutions. Westrock partners with its customers at each step of the supply chain to meet the needs of manufacturers, retailers and patients.

We are Körber – an international technology group with about 10,000 employees, more than 100 locations worldwide and a common goal: We turn entrepreneurial thinking into customer success and shape technological change. In the Business Area Pharma, we deliver the difference along the entire pharmaceutical value chain by offering a unique portfolio of integrated solutions. Based on in-depth experience, we understand the challenges in pharmaceutical processes and regulation that our customers face day to day, from the beginning to the end of their production.

Over the past 47 years Child Related Research, Inc. (CRR) has established itself as a worldwide leader in the evaluation and protocol testing of child-resistant and senior friendly packages. Today, CRR tests for some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical, household chemical and contract packaging industries. CRR prides ourself on quick turnaround and accurate test results of child-resistance through each step of the packages development. We are accredited to all domestic and international standards.

For more information please contact us at:
Child Related Research