Packaging market projections

Refer the project back to the R D department for an improvement of the formula or the packaging (this can easily cost huge amounts of money and delay market introduction by years, especially if alternatives had not been thought of or had been prematurely deleted from the stability program). 

This working party considers safety-related issues at the request of the CPMP and national authorities, resulting in the harmonization of the summary of produet eharae-teristics and package leaflets of marketed products. Regular videoeonferenees are held with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss issues of mutual interest. A pilot project has been started for the electronic transmission of individual case safety reports with a restricted number of participants from national authorities and marketing authorization holders. 

Fixed capital investment Working capital requirements Total capital investment Total manufacturing expense Packaging and in-plant expense Total product expense General overhead expense Total operating expense Marketing data Cash flow analysis Project profitability Sensitivity analysis Uncertainty analysis... 

Excluding loose-fill packaging, which is a relatively more mature sector for starch-based biodegradable polymers, global market tonnage in 2005 is 71,700 tonnes and the compound annual growth rate for the period 2005-2010 is projected to be 20.3%. 

The team should comprise delegates from marketing, development, production, engineering, purchasing and QC. This should be formed once drug research and marketing research have completed their broad packaging brief and have clearly established a viable project. 

Major applications for styrene plastics are summarized in Table III (23). The packaging and serviceware (disposables) markets predominate, and account for approximately 50% of the total. One of the most rapidly growing portions of these markets is in low-density (usually 1-10 Ib/ft ) polystyrene foams, either in the form of extruded foam sheet or expanded polystyrene beads (EPS). Projections indicate that production of these foams will be greater than 2000 metric tons (24). 

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