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.
Rollstock and preformed pouches for a wide variety of healthcare products:
- Diagnostics
- Medical Devices & Supplies
- Rx Pharmaceuticals
- Over The Counter (OTC) Healthcare Products
- Transdermal Patches, Inhalers & Other Drug-Device Combination Products
- Tooth Whitener Strips & Other Dental Care Products
- Supplements & Nutritionals
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 Principle - Ensuring the safety of the patient and the efficacy of your product
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Six APC Centers of Excellence:
- Columbus, WI - Corporate Headquarters, Rotogravure & Digital 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
- Registered high-gloss and/or matte lacquer
- Holographic materials
- Randomized printing
- Personalization of each package
- Interactive packaging
- Connected packaging
- Digital watermarks
- Promotional Coupons
- Proof-of-purchase stickers
- Backside printing of games and sweepstakes
- Thermochromatic inks
- Natural surfaces
- Soft-touch and tactile surfaces
- Shaped pouches
- Foils and metallized films
- Transparent high-barrier packaging
- 100% defect detection systems
- Field technical support, including Factory Acceptance Testing (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
- Tandem extrusion and adhesive laminations of film, paper and foil
- Foil and non-foil barrier structures
- Paper and film-based structures
- Dry-bond and solventless adhesives
- High-barrier windows 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
- Child-resistant/senior-friendly opening features
- Sachets and packets
- Peel-open packs
- Stick packs
- Overwraps and flow wraps
- 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 Flexo
- Advanced rotogravure cylinder engraving process, part of APC Roto
- State-of-the-art digital printing capability - APC Digital
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. With two turnkey APC Digital packaging production units and six Centers of Excellence with APC Roto and APC Flexo, APC has the infrastructure to quickly scale your product throughout its life cycle.



