Teri Meadow, Healthcare Manager – tmeadow@ampkcorp.com – 616-240-4741

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), we have healthcare packaging experts to find the ideal flexible packaging solutions for all types of:

• Pharmaceuticals
• Medical Devices
• Diagnostics
• Biologics
• Nutraceuticals
• Other healthcare related products

We offer flexible packaging materials and technologies for a wide variety of healthcare applications, including:

• Tablets and capsules
• Oral dissolve strips
• Powders and liquids
• Topicals
• Transdermals
• Woundcare
• Inhalers
• Contact lenses
• Medical and diagnostic devices
• Biologics
• Nutraceuticals
• Oral care

APC Healthcare® manufactures:

• Barrier and non-barrier laminated/coated roll stock
• Lidding
• Labels
• Overwraps and flow wraps
• Premade bags and pouches

Combining the performance of our packaging materials and laminations with our superior rotogravure and flexographic printing capabilities and a wide variety of high performance coatings, our customers receive high performance packaging with vibrant visual impact for strong performance in a competitive retail environment and precision printing for professional healthcare settings.

APC Healthcare® has robust quality systems and culture, with expertise in Regulatory and GMP Compliance, providing assurance of highest quality packaging materials that will meet your specifications, and most importantly, the needs of the patient or consumer.

The highly-experienced team at APC Healthcare® is standing by to serve your pharmaceutical, medical and personal care packaging requirements, no matter what your needs may entail, and we are here to deliver the most effective solutions for your product application.

OUR PROCESSES INCLUDE

• Narrow and Wide-Web Flexographic Printing
  • Up to 10 Colors with in-line Lamination and Coating Capabilities
• Narrow and Wide-Web Rotogravure Printing
  • Up to 10 Colors, Ability to Print 8 with in-Line Tandem Laminating Capabilities
  • 100% Material Accountability
  • Random Sequential Numbering
• Multi-ply Adhesive and Extrusion Laminations
  • Tandem Extrusion and Adhesive Laminations of Film, Paper, and Foil
  • Foil and Non Foil Barrier Structures
  • Paper and Film Based Structures
  • Dry Bond or Solventless Adhesives
• Special Features on Preformed Packages for Increased Value
  • Reclosable Zippers
  • Laser Scoring and Tear Notches for Easy Opening
  • Multi-compartments
  • Hang Holes
  • Wickets
  • Tin Ties for End User Reclosure

From our Rochester, NY Center of Excellence

The American Packaging Corporation (APC) Engineered Laminations and Coatings Center of Excellence, located in Rochester, New York, offers comprehensive capabilities in complex extrusion and barrier lamination of films, foils, papers, and resins. This includes over 125 distinct combinations of our quality raw materials and resins. At APC, all of our extruded and coated flexible packaging solutions are customized and specially engineered to suit the unique requirements of each customer and each application. APC is your partner for more innovation, more quality, more responsive service, and more value.

ELC SAFETY, FOOD SAFETY, QUALITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

APC is committed to achieving customer satisfaction by supplying safe products that exceed customer quality requirements.

We accomplish this while maintaining a safe work environment, profitability, compliance with legal and other requirements, and reducing our environmental impact and product contamination risk, by supplying adequate resources to support the implementation and continual improvement of our Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Environmental management systems, and through the establishment and review of system objectives.

Offering high-definition printing & preformed bags & pouches

The American Packaging Corporation (APC) Flexographic Printing, Laminating, and Preformed Products Center of Excellence, located in Story City, Iowa, combines high performance with high-definition, award-winning flexographic printing in flexible packaging. Using a variety of substrates, including films, paper, and foils, APC meets the most demanding customer requirements in packaging an wide range of food, personal care, medical, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. Each of our flexible packaging products is carefully tailored to meet the specific needs of each specific application, resulting in the perfect flexographic-printed packaging for each unique customer. Rely on APC for more quality, more innovation, more support, and more value.

FPL’S MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS POLICIES

QUALITY:  Provide quality packaging that meets or exceeds customer requirements through employee involvement and continual improvement.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL:  Protect the environment, employees, customers and community through employee involvement, conservation of resources, pollution prevention and continual improvement.   Commit to meet occupational health, safety, environmental compliance obligations and control occupational health, safety & environmental risks.

FOOD SAFETY:  Provide food safe packaging that meets regulatory requirements and customer requirements throughout the food chain by employee involvement and continual improvement.

From an industry-leading rotogravure printer of flexible packaging

The American Packaging Corporation (APC) Rotogravure Printing and Laminating Centers of Excellence, located in Columbus and DeForest, Wisconsin deliver premier rotogravure printing capabilities. APC is consistently rated worldwide as one of the top rotogravure printers of paper and film-based flexible packaging products due to our exceptional Wisconsin team and our top-quality equipment. These Centers of Excellence feature capabilities in adhesive lamination of film, paper, and foil substrates and are dedicated to process improvement. If you are seeking cost-effective flexible packaging with excellent image quality, custom material laminations, and precise performance, APC’s rotogravure printing capabilities make us your ideal partner.

RPL’s MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POLICY

APC Rotogravure COE is committed to achieving customer satisfaction by providing products and services that meet or exceed customer requirements.

With employee involvement, we have established measureable objectives and through ongoing review, ensure compliance and continual improvement of our management system.  We accomplish this while providing a safe and clean workplace for our employees, produce safe legal products for our customers, commit to a sustainable future, reduce our impact on the environment, prevent pollution and commit to meet applicable health, safety and environmental compliance obligations.

Flexible packaging innovations from our Solutions Team

In 2014, American Packaging Corporation (APC) established our Center for Packaging Innovation in Columbus, Wisconsin, where our dedicated Solutions Team focuses on research and development projects designed to bring innovation to our product lines. Our Solutions Team works with customers to solve their business and innovation challenges. The Center offers a process from Ideation through Prototypes that helps identify project goals, constraints, and solutions for challenges of today and beyond.

Read the Flexible Refreshments article featuring our liquid market manager Tom Triggs

APC Sponsors 2 Initiative at RIT

APC CENTER FOR PACKAGING INNOVATION
a. Dedicated to Flexible Packaging material development
b. Testing and Material Development Lab

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  American Packaging is enthused by the activity with RIT’s packaging science program and is impressed by the momentum that the University has within our industry. The close proximity between our manufacturing facility and the University has allowed for a strong relationship. Over the years APC has become an integral part of course development as it pertains to flexible packaging and actively partakes in student growth. Here’s a snapshot of on-going activities:APC sponsors and guides RIT’s research and development of innovative materials and packaging solutions. This research includes breathable films, sustainability, pouching options and much more. Experimentation and testing is performed in the APC Center for Packaging Innovation at RIT.
  APC sponsors an annual packaging challenge where students from various departments work together to develop innovative solutions. Finished projects are judged on the following criteria: Package Cost, Graphic Design, Package Innovation, Sustainability, Shelf Presence, Shelf Utilization, Supply Chain Cost and Presentation Style.On-going 6 month internships with APC’s manufacturing facility where students gain hands on flexible packaging converting experience working in APC’s Analytical and QA Labs.APC has assisted RIT to develop the curriculum and course content for a Flexible Packaging Minor at RIT (courses to start in Spring 2015).APC is assisting RIT in the development of an on-line packaging course for professional development. Graduates will receive continuing education credit.APC is assisting RIT in the development of an educational workshop on Flexible Packaging and Sustainability. It will be open to Consumer Goods Companies, Packaging Suppliers, Students and Faculty. The workshop will include hands on project activities, open discussion, and futuristic brainstorming.

CENTER OF SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING
a. Dedicated to Sustainability in all forms Packaging
b. Consortium of companies that guide research and innovation

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  Through a collaborative partnership between RIT, The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation and American Packaging Corporation an education and research center was created to accelerate the development of realistic solutions in sustainable packaging.The Center is a testing ground for new ideas and solutions for students, researchers, faculty and corporate partners that are interested in sustainable packaging. It is housed within the College of Applied Science and Technology building at RIT, and a Steering Committee comprised of RIT, Wegmans, and American Packaging meets monthly to drive projects, set priorities and review status.

  Developmental Projects currently underway:
  HPP [high pressure processing] for increased shelf life or less food waste.
  Mineral filled plastics for reduction in carbon footprint.
  Evaluation of bio plastics to determine the overall Carbon Footprint of “Environmentally Friendly” Structures
  Extended Shelf Life of Fresh Produce through testing and material advancements

  The focus of the Center will continue to evaluate the environmental, social, and economic impacts of new and existing products. As a premier school for packaging science, RIT has been a leading force in developing young leaders in the packaging industry. American Packaging is proud to be a partner in the development of new materials, processes and designs based on current and future industry needs.