SCHOTT (Mainz, Germany), a leading supplier of primary pharmaceutical packaging, is investing another single-digit million-euro amount into Canadian big data expert Smart Skin as part of their second financing round. Smart Skin offers a monitoring system that helps pharma companies identify weak spots on their production lines. As a result, the pharmaceutical containers run smoothly on the lines, saving the pharma companies time and money. The Smart Skin solution is part of a comprehensive package that SCHOTT offers to improve productivity and increase yield.
At this year’s FINAT Awards presentation, Schreiner Group celebrated an outstanding success: The high-tech company impressed the judging panel in as many as four different categories. A particularly remarkable prize, the prestigious Innovation Award, went to PlasmaPatch from Schreiner ProTech using printed electronics for wound healing.
Aptar CSP Technologies (Crystal Lake, Illinois), a leader in material science and active packaging solutions (part of AptarGroup, Inc.), recently announced its Activ-Film technology was selected to protect two new at-home COVID-19 tests that recently received emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
