Voting has now closed for the new Innovation Awards acknowledging progressive developments and partnerships that drive important changes in industrial print and manufacturing. The winners will be announced at the InPrint 2017 exhibition taking place from 14 - 16 November 2017 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany.
American-based E Ink Holdings, a leading innovator of electronic ink technology and German LTS Lohmann-Therapie Systeme AG, leading in the development and manufacturing of transdermal therapeutic systems, announced their partnership to develop a “Smart Patch” prototype. The Smart Patch prototype is a transdermal therapeutic system (TTS) which delivers medication to patients in a convenient, controlled and comfortable manner and features an E Ink display to deliver and to convey relevant information about patch performance.
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the UK’s technology innovation provider for process manufacturing, announced that it has begun the first phase of its ‘Medicines Smart Packaging’ project. This phase of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) funded project, known as SmartMed, will begin the process of crystallising the needs for innovation in the smart packaging of medicines and medical devices leading to the creation of an innovation capability.
