Date & Location
Wednesday, 23.09.2026, 09.00 – 18.00 at Suisse Technology Partners, Querstrasse 5, CH-8212 Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.
Content
Pharmaceutical primary packaging must be safe, sustainable, and recyclable – requirements that are driving the need for innovative solutions. These challenges are at the heart of the symposium taking place on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.
Industry experts will present the latest developments in material and barrier properties of packaging materials, along with advances in processing technology, with a focus on recyclability requirements.
The programme features technical presentations from Novartis, F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd, Aluberg, LOG Pharma Primary Packaging, TOPAS Advanced Polymers, Marchesini, AMETEK MOCON, Suisse Technology Partners, and further industry contributors, as well as a live MOCON equipment demonstration and a guided tour of the analytical laboratory at Suisse Technology Partners. The lab tour gives participants direct insight into the facility’s capabilities in material analysis and characterisation, both essential for packaging development and failure investigation.
Presentations will be held in German.
The breaks and closing networking reception will offer plenty of opportunities for professional discussions and networking.
Target Audience
The event is aimed at scientists, engineers, technicians, and decision-makers working in packaging development, packaging testing, and quality assurance, as well as pharmacists, packaging specialists, and manufacturers of packaging machinery and materials.
Participation fee
CHF 250.00 (including refreshments)
Further details will be provided upon registration. Cancellations are accepted up to 7 days before the event, subject to an administration fee of CHF 30. Cancellations received after this deadline cannot be accepted, and the full participation fee will apply. Delegate substitutions are welcome at any time.
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Arrival and Registration
NOVARTIS PHARMA AG
MARKUS SCHÖNFELD
Project Leader Packaging & Device Development
Sustainable primary packaging – The journey continues
- Sustainable objectives & strategy for oral medicine
- Packaging examples
- Challenges
F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD
MARTIN OBERHAUSER
Senior Verification Engineer
BEWERTUNG DER LEISTUNGSFÄHIGKEIT VON PRIMÄRVERPACKUNGEN AUS DER SICHT EINES PHARMAZEUTEN
- Einflussparameter und Messverfahren
- Herausforderungen in der Praxis und Lösungswege
NETWORKING BREAK
Aluberg S.p.A
Claudio Algarotti
R&D Director
Advanced Alu-Alu blister packaging: PVC-free, recyclable, sustainable, and designed for maximum product protection
- A comprehensive comparative study between conventional Alu-Alu blister packaging and an advanced PVC-free Alu-Alu solution
- Evaluation of barrier performance, functionality, sustainability, recyclability and product protection
Suisse Technology Partners
Matthias Schellenberg
Senior Scientist – Interdisciplinary Projects & Pharma Packaging
Barrier Packaging: Material Expertise as the Key to Product Safety
- Sustainability and high barrier performance: contradiction or opportunity?
- Evaluation of recyclable high-barrier packaging using numerical simulation
- Prediction of the shelf life of pharmaceutical products based on the barrier properties of packaging materials
- Failure analysis methods for pharmaceutical high-barrier systems
- Industrial case studies
Guided Tour of the Laboratories at Suisse Technology Partners
LUNCH
Topas Advanced Polymers
Halit Ozan Kilic
Manager Technical Sales & Marketing | EMEA
Polyolefin Pharmaceutical Blisters: Functional and Barrier Design with COC
- Established blister materials and new polyolefin approaches from functional and recycling perspectives
- Material principle: how COC influences the performance of PE- and PP-based blister films
- Blister design: assessing COC-based pharmaceutical blister films for recyclability
LOG pharma primary packaging
Ora Gilboa
VP R&D
Designing Next-Generation Sustainable Barrier Bottles
- Sustainability challenges and opportunities in barrier packaging
- Material and design optimization strategies
- Future directions for sustainable barrier solutions
NETWORKING BREAK
Marchesini Group S.p.A
Federico Tusberti
Product Development Specialist Blister & Farcon
Sustainable materials machinability challenges
- How machines are behaving with the new materials
- Technical solutions to work with new materials
- Production expectations
Ametek | Mocon
Christoph Zerwas
Area Sales Manager
Measuring the Gas and Water Vapor Permeability in Packaging
- Functions and vulnerabilities of packaging
- Testing and measurement methods
- Permeation measurement technology
BE CIRCULAR - PLATFORM FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY SOLUTIONS
Cedric Gysel
From linear to Limitless – Resetting Pharma for a circular future
- Solutions for a changing world - Addressing supply chain resilience and Scope 3
- From waste to value - Diverting waste and keeping value in the loop
- Circular solutions - Rethinking design, materials and processes