Regulated healthcare products
Medical supply chains run under some of the toughest regulatory and physical conditions in manufacturing. Intelligent Material® goes into the adhesive, ink, plastic and label itself, survives sterilization and the cold chain, and reads in a second at the line, the pharmacy and the operating room.
Serialization and track-and-trace verify the packaging record, not the product in your hand. A capable counterfeiter can copy a label, add a hologram and print valid barcode data without ever touching a certified line. For drug makers and device OEMs that gap means patient harm, enforcement under DSCSA and EU FMD, and liability that packaging records alone cannot answer.
Intelligent Material® is compounded into vial plastics and caps, printed in invisible ink, and mixed into label varnish and seal adhesive during manufacturing. A phone confirms it at the counter; a handheld reader gives the forensic answer. Detection is non-destructive, needs no sample preparation and no network, and works alongside your serialization system rather than replacing it.
Practical applications
Pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting
Counterfeit and diverted medicines move through the same channels as genuine ones. We built a complete system around the vial and syringe: crystals in the plastic, in invisible ink, in the cap and in the label, read by a phone or a handheld reader and connected to software that knows every unit and the case it shipped in.
Crystals are compounded into masterbatches for COC, HDPE, LDPE, PETG and other polymers, so the vial or the package itself carries the identity. Nothing is added after manufacturing, and nothing can be peeled off.
Transparent crystal ink prints a data-matrix code or logo on vials and secondary packaging from a standard thermal inkjet cartridge. The code is invisible in daylight and is read in UV and infrared by a custom reader.
Crystals extruded into ABS give vial tamper-evident caps and syringe protective caps their own identity. A replaced cap reads wrong.
A phone confirms the crystals are present in a cap or label, then reads the QR code for one-to-one authentication of that unit against its record. No spectroscopy knowledge needed.
A custom holographic tamper label carries two crystals: one for the forensic handheld reader and one for the smartphone. One label gives an overt check by eye, a covert check by phone and a forensic check by reader.
Every scan checks that the QR code is authentic and has not been seen before. A code read more than once raises a warning, and parent-child labels link each case to the vials inside it.
The handheld reader excites the crystals and quantifies their optical signature, identifying which crystal is present and how much. It is the forensic answer when a pharmacist, inspector or customs officer needs certainty.
Demonstration kit
We show the whole system in one demonstration kit: the products and the readers, ready to test side by side.
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Invisible inkjet · on the line you already run
The same crystal ink prints a data-matrix code, serial number or logo that disappears in daylight, glows under UV and carries a covert crystal layer only our reader can confirm. Drop it into an HP45 cartridge, or run it continuously with UV curing, without ever touching the product.
Crystal ink in a standard HP45-format thermal cartridge. It drops into the coder already on your line or a desktop printer for samples. No new station, no new head.
Best for: cartons, labels, vials, caps and paper, and pilot runs that start on a desk and move to the line unchanged.
A continuous inkjet head prints crystal ink across an air gap, and a UV LED lamp cures it a moment later. The head never touches the product, so it prints on almost any surface at line speed.
Best for: bottles, cans, glass and metal parts, and anywhere a cartridge printer cannot reach the surface.
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Ready to evaluate NovaVera for Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals? We work directly with technical evaluators and procurement teams, from the first sample to full production.
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