Packaging of pharmaceuticals is a critical process. It is an economical means of providing protection, presentation, information, identiÞ cation, containment, administration, shelf-life and convenience for a product during carriage, storage, display and ultimate total use, paying due attention to any legal and environmental factors1. Plastics are a wide group of solid composite materials, which...

S. Sremac, P. Gladović, M. Đelošević, B. Matić, A. Matić, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia. This paper discusses the issues of product design and the procedure of developing polymer packaging as one of the most important engineering tasks. For the purpose of packing power cables a polymer packaging has been designed in the form of drum. Packaging and many ...

Using biodegradable films is increasingly growing since they contain natural materials. In this study, sago starch and carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) were used in film preparation. Sago starch films with 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% CMC concentrations were prepared using solvent casting method. The mechanical properties were determined according to standards of American Society for Testing and Materials...

Ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) is one of the best known flexible thermoplastic oxygen barrier materials in use today. It is especially important for refrigerated and shelf-stable foods where oxygen deteriorates the quality of packaged products and reduces their shelf life. EVOH accounts for a majority of thermoplastic barrier materials used for rigid or semi-rigid retortable food containers. How...

Copyright © 2012 Frederick Furness Publishing 16 In this paper, Thomas Dries, PhD, Market Development Manager Europe, Healthcare & Packaging, Honeywell Specialty Materials, considers the challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in implementing a blister packaging strategy that: protects advanced solid oral drug delivery systems from physical or chemical degradation; creates market advantag...

this paper reviews the possible effects determined on polymeric food packaging films by the simultaneous application of pressure (p) and temperature (t) in high pressure pasteurization and sterilization treatments of packaged foodstuffs. both theoretical modeling and experimental issues are discussed. in fact reversible and irreversible effects that could occur in single film as well as in mult...

This paper reports on the measurement of elastic modulus of thin film materials by a magnetostrictive sensor. Thin film materials of Cu, Cr, Al, Au, Sn, In, Au-rich lead free solder (AuSn) and SiC were sputter deposited onto well defined strips of Metglas sensor. The elastic modulus of the thin film materials was determined by measuring the resonant frequency of the sensors before and after fil...

Packaging and storage are the final phases in the food industry. Quality preservation, improving safety and reduction of postharvest losses waste are some objectives of the packaging engineering. One of techniques that widely used in packaging of fruits and vegetables are modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). In MAP for fresh fruits and vegetable the air of packaging headspace replaces with a pr...

Integrated circuit packaging and their testing is well advanced because of the maturity of the IC industry, their wide applications, and availability of industrial inhstructure. [ 1,2] This is not true for MEMS with respect to packaging and testing. It is more difficult to adopt standardized MEMS device packaging for wide applications although MEMS use many similar technologies to IC packaging....

it is possible to develop new biodegradable active packaging by coating biopolymers on paper-based packaging material and also incorporating proper antimicrobial agents into coating structure. in this study bacterial contamination of two commercial cardboard were evaluated.in order to manufacture an appropriate antibacterial packaging material, coating of chitosan-poly vinyl alcohol blends with...