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Five Steps to Maximize Value Before Selling Your Packaging Business

September 12, 2025

Exiting a packaging business isn’t just about putting it on the market — it’s about presenting it as a scalable, compliant, and future-ready company.

Aptar CSP Technologies Joins Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council

December 18, 2018

Aptar CSP Technologies has joined the HCPC, a nonprofit association dedicated to expanding the use of compliance-prompting packaging to improve patient adherence and outcomes, potentially reducing noncompliance-related healthcare costs.

Materials Technology: Blisters & Cards

Blister Packaging vs. Bottles for Pharmaceutical Products

Factors to consider for packaging over-the-counter and prescription medications include safety, adherence and product quality.

Ward Smith

May 15, 2018

While the U.S. consumer is accustomed to seeing medication in both bottles and blister packs, bottles remain the dominant format in the U.S. Alternatively, since the end of World War II, the European standard for packaging medication has shifted toward the use of blister packs.

HCPC Annual Compliance Package of the Year Competition Opens

May 11, 2018

Entries are now being accepted for the The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council's Compliance Package of the Year competition through Friday, June 29, 2018. The competition recognizes leading pharmaceutical adherence/compliance-prompting packaging and is open to all firms involved in compliance/patient reminder pharmaceutical packaging.

Keystone Folding Box Co. launches compact, child-resistant paperboard package for medication in blisters

Compact, child-resistant paperboard package for medication in blisters premiers

August 29, 2017

Keystone Folding Box Co. has launched Ecoslide-OTC, a child-resistant paperboard pack for over-the-counter medication packaged in blisters, which features a push-button locking mechanism.

Keystone Folding Box Co. Launches Ecoslide-RX 3.0 Prescription Compliance Package

New eco-friendly prescription compliance blister pack launches

August 8, 2017

Keystone Folding Box Company has released an improved version of its child-resistant Ecoslide-RX compliance package, which includes an updated re-closable locking feature designed to offer consumers a better experience.

HCPC Column

Revisiting the Poison Prevention Packaging Act

Walt Berghahn

June 13, 2017

In 1970, Richard Nixon signed into law the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). The act was written in response to a growing number of child poisonings from unintentional ingestion of drugs and other products. The Act was successful, but a lot has changed in the last 47 years.

Cover Story

Pharmaceutical packaging must perform to work

How performance and functionality impact the pharmaceutical packaging segment.

Liz Cuneo

April 12, 2017

The medicine or device may be a home-run product, but if consumers aren’t using the product correctly, it has little chance of success. And if the consumers cannot even open the package to get to the product inside, it has zero chance.

Supply Chain Wizard co-hosts Pharma CMO Summit on serialization

Supply Chain Wizard to co-host Pharma CMO Summit

March 28, 2017

Supply Chain Wizard – a leading full-service global consulting firm specializing in serialization and traceability, as well as supply chain strategy and operational transformation programs – is hosting Pharma CMO Summit on April 4-5, 2017.

Walt Berghahn, executive director of HCPC

Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council Column

Let’s make a New Year’s resolution to improve pharmaceutical safety

Walt Berghahn

February 13, 2017

It’s 2017! If you are expecting groundbreaking news from the world of pharmaceutical safety, you may have to wait a while. Let’s get a quick status report.