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Packaging Prescriptions: APC Healthcare®

The cure for your toughest challenges

Quality. It’s what patient safety demands, what regulators require and what you deliver—every product, every time. We share that commitment. At APC Healthcare^®, high quality isn’t a goal: It’s the minimum standard we set for every package we create, meeting your most exacting requirements and exceeding your expectations and evolving regulatory standards.

With 120+ years in the packaging business—and more than 50 years of healthcare packaging expertise—we have the culture, capabilities, procedures, innovative technologies that meet the highest quality standards and strict compliance know-how your pharmaceutical and medical products deserve. Combined with our award-winning printing, innovative packaging technologies and sustainable offerings, you know why we say that, at APC, we deliver the total package.

World-class quality systems, networks, procedures and controls:

Multiple certifications, including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
Controlled atmosphere process environments
Defect detection systems
Robotic Operational Elements for enhanced precision
APC Healthcare Management Principles: Ensuring the safety of the patient and the efficacy of your product®

Capabilities

Six APC Centers of Excellence:

Columbus, WI - Corporate Headquarters, Rotogravure Printing, Laminating, Coating & Pouch/Bag Making
DeForest, WI - Rotogravure Printing, Laminating & Coating
Story City, IA - Flexographic & Digital Printing, Laminating, Coating & Pouch/Bag Making
Chili, NY - Flexographic Printing, Extrusion Laminating/Coating & Adhesive Laminating/Coating
Cedar City, UT - Flexographic Printing, Laminating, Coating & Pouch Making
Rochester, NY - Extrusion Laminating/Coating & Adhesive Laminating

Child-resistant/senior-friendly opening features
Sustainable packaging structures
Holographic materials
Randomized printing
Personalization of each package
Interactive packaging
Connected packaging
Digital watermarks
Thermochromatic inks
Shaped pouches
Foils and metallized films
Transparent high-barrier packaging

100% defect detection systems
Field technical support, including FAT support, machinery input, trialing and launch support, and training
Subject-matter experts to support you from concept to commercialization

Dial in required barriers and performance needs with a stable of robust and protective technologies
Optimal transparency appearance to showcase the product

Reclose mechanisms
Child-resistant/senior-friendly and easy-opening features
Easy-open and precision-opening features
Multi-compartments
Fitment-compatible products

Proven packaging for a diverse set of healthcare applications

Child-resistant/senior-friendly opening features
Sachets and packets
Peel-open packs
Stick packs
Overwraps
Lidding
Preformed pouches and bags

Transdermals and transmucosal
Capsules and tablets
Powders and granules
Liquids
Creams, ointments and gels
Medical devices
Diagnostics
Wound care
Wipes
Nutraceuticals, homeopathic and supplements

SERVICES

APC Solutions Team experts for collaborative innovation and ideation
Industrial design, modeling and prototyping services to realize concepts and ideas, including digital printing for mock ups
Engineering, Field Tech Service and Technical Support with testing, problem solving, training and audits in the field
Comprehensive graphics support
World-class flexographic plate-making systems, part of APC's HPE Flexo™
Advanced rotogravure cylinder engraving process, part of APC's HPE Roto™
APC Center for Sustainable Packaging at Rochester Institute of Technology

LEVERAGE SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTS AND DIGITAL TOOLS TO TEST NEW PRODUCTS FASTER

We’re independently owned, with localized decision making, shorter lead times, and a nimble, lean approach to manufacturing. This is why we’re able to quickly get your product to market, giving you the competitive advantage while maintaining the highest quality and strictest brand standards.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY

At APC, protecting the environment and ensuring the health and safety of our employees is at the core of everything we do and every decision we make. Everyone in the APC family has a responsibility to ensure our operations and products meet applicable government and APC standards, always aligning with whichever is more stringent. Our goal is to prevent adverse environmental impacts by reducing waste and emissions and eliminating all preventable health impacts and injuries to our employees.

We’re committed to supplying safe products that exceed customer quality requirements.

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