Kassandra Kania

3 days ago | packagingdigest.com | Kassandra Kania

Packaging Digest, Lisa PierceApril showers bring May flowers — and a reminder to mark your calendars for this year’s thePACKout event from May 13 to 15. The conference takes place at the beautiful Loews Coronado Bay Resort (a destination in itself) and promises to deliver a lineup of topnotch speakers to educate and motivate healthcare executives and engineers. Now in its fourth year, the event offers curated conference sessions focused on timely topics that vex the medical packaging community.

4 days ago | cleanlink.com | Kassandra Kania

As CPS began phasing away from its building service contractor, the district was also taking a closer look at its third area of concern: equipment and supplies. Prior to the transition, bulk orders of supplies were delivered from the contractor to schools on a monthly basis. But not all schools needed the same supplies at the same time, and storage space varied based on the individual school.

1 week ago | cleanlink.com | Kassandra Kania

For more than a decade, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has relied on a building service contractor to maintain its 800-plus buildings spanning approximately 62 million square feet. However, outsourcing the entire cleaning operation — and the management thereof — did not always yield the desired results: Concerns about poor management, inconsistent cleaning, and mismanaged supplies led CPS to propose a return to in-house cleaning.

1 week ago | packagingdigest.com | Kassandra Kania

Tariffs have pharmaceutical companies in a tizzy, and for good reason. But according to Adept Group’s recent roundtable discussion, “Navigating Tariffs: Understanding the Impact on Pharmaceutical Packaging,” this period of uncertainty is also an opportune time for packaging professionals to shine: Through strong leadership and a sound understanding of packaging science, packaging engineers can help their organizations navigate changes and clear regulatory pathways with speed and accuracy.

2 weeks ago | packagingdigest.com | Kassandra Kania

Kassandra Kania is a freelance writer based in Charlotte, NC, and a frequent contributor to Packaging Digest. She started her career in B2B publishing in 1998 as an associate editor for Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) magazine and was appointed managing editor of Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News in 2001.