Serialization of pharmaceutical packaging

Jun 19, 2016

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Turning serialization compliance into branding opportunities: Hapa’s UV DOD inkjet technology serves the market.

Pharmaceutical companies preparing for packaging serialization compliance by 2018 are investing in packaging-line marking technology.
The Swiss company Hapa, world leader of on-demand packaging print solutions, suggests an alternative to conventional markers: Track & Trace-ready printing systems capable of printing full packaging artwork and serialized data in a single pass.
Companies looking into product-marking technologies to integrate into their production lines should be wary of limiting their focus to meeting regulatory requirements only.
Time and resources are being spent on planning new packaging-line strategies, processes, layouts, equipment and materials - why not take advantage of opportunities to be more than merely compliant? Put patient and customer-safety compliance to work to improve brand imaging, and turn change into a sound investment in each product’s future.

Hapa’s fully digital, inline printing systems deliver the sharpness and resilience of print necessary to fulfil serialization requirements.

Print quality and reliability. Given that product tracking through the supply chain is the primary objective of tracking and tracing, ink resilience and print quality are of utmost importance. Hapa’s fully digital, inline printing systems deliver the sharpness and resilience of print necessary to fulfil serialization requirements plus realize the capacity to blend regulatory features into overall artwork concepts in single to multiple colors. Easily integrated into existing packaging lines or new OEM lines as well as ERP workflows, they assimilate seamlessly with all Track & Trace infrastructures. Hapa’s UV DOD piezo inkjet technology allows for the highest flexibility of production planning and for the fastest response to market-specific changes and serialization, increasing agility and opening opportunities.
All systems master the needs for accuracy and reliability that top company’s demand, and work with both blank and pre-printed materials.

Working for the pharma sector For over 45 years, Hapa has been merging opportunity with compliance within the pharmaceutical segment. Its cutting edge technologies for on demand, just-in-time printing enables lines to go from batch to single product printing while reducing downtimes.
Lean production is boosted by cuts in material waste and a more streamlined and safer supply chain, which adds up to a sizeable return on investment. Hapa is a complete-package partner with a global network of services and consumable sales. The company’s division Hapa Ink develops and produces inks for customer-specific applications, and offers a range of UV inks that are solvent-free. Hapa Ink products are proven to adhere to the most challenging materials.