Essentra Packaging
Essentra Packaging is exhibiting at Pharmapack Europe with a new stand reflecting its rebranding earlier this year. Operating from nine manufacturing sites across Europe, it provides an outstanding range of packaging solutions to meet the rapidly changing requirements of the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets.
Over recent years, significant investment has been made in two new state-of-the-art factories in Portsmouth, UK, and Wolfen, Germany, in addition to the installation of the latest printing, cutting, folding and finishing technology at its other sites across Europe.
Working in effective partnership with customers and suppliers, the company is committed to quality, flexibility and creativity, delivering a product range that includes cartons, leaflets, self-adhesive labels, tapes, cold-form, blister pack foils and security.
High quality cartons are produced in a wide range of styles, constructional designs and graphical print finishes. Different substrates and thicknesses of material can be printed and performance varnishes, security and tamper-evident features and Braille embossing can be incorporated where required.
Specialist cartons can also be produced for particular products such as the Parenteral Paper Pack (PPP) which delivers a new concept in display boxes designed specifically for fragile items such as vials, bottles and syringes.
Leaflets
Leaflets are printed on both web and flat sheet offset litho presses and supplied in three different formats: folded, flat and on-roll. Special products include the on-roll leaflet in single, double or triple format, outserts, tagserts, security leaflets and sachet leaflets.
Leaflet formats include PiggyBack and Triple PiggyBack, two- or three-folded leaflets glued together back to back in a compact design and Plurium, a multi-page booklet with more space for information but compact when folded.
Labels
Self-adhesive labels can be produced on a wide range of substrates and specific customer requirements are met with specialist processes such as Braille printing, extra security slitting and over-laminating to prevent product contamination.
There are also compact options to provide greater surface area for patient information, including Peel ‘n Read, Peel ‘n Reveal and Label Extra.
Tapes and security
A variety of tamper and authentication solutions can be built into products to meet individual needs. These include holography; overt, covert and forensic technologies; security print using gravure UV flexo, litho, screen and digital capability; patron security inks and taggant systems; integrated on-pack authentication; tamper-evident labels; and combined tamper and authentication solutions.
Foils
The state-of-the-art Class 100,000 standard cleanroom for printing blister pack foils offers six colour capability and the flexibility to print onto a range of different foils and thicknesses to meet individual customer specifications, including child resistance and multi-colour flexographical print.
Stand 148, Pharmapack Europe 2014, 12–13 February, Paris Expo — Porte de Versailles, France.
Essentra Packaging, +44 1274 622222, www.essentrapackaging.com.