Blister Pack
Blister pack is a term for several types of pre-formed plastic packaging used for small consumer goods, foods, and for pharmaceuticals. Blister packs are useful for protecting products against external factors, such as humidity and contamination for extended periods of time. Opaque blisters also protect light-sensitive products against UV rays. Printed & Plain Aluminum foil, hard tempered, 18 to 30 microns thick, Coated with Heat Seal Lacquer, globally used in pharmaceutical companies for Tablet & Capsule Push through packaging.
Blister packs are created by means of a form-fill- seal process at the pharmaceutical company or designated contract packer. A form-fill- seal process means that the blister pack is created from rolls of flat sheet or film, filled with the pharmaceutical product and closed (sealed) on the same equipment. Such equipment is called a blister line.
Strip Pack
Strip packaging has come to stay in Pharmaceutical, Confectionery,Engineering and Industrial product sectors. Strip Packaging machines are designed to handle a wide range of products with utmost precision and speed up-to 2400 units per minute. The Products from the hopper passes through a stainless steel feeding system and goes to sealing roller cavities where laminated foils, drawn from two rollers, packs and seals the products in a continuous strip. The strip then passes through vertical and horizontal Gutter assemblies to deliver the desired sizes of strip
packages.
Soft tempered aluminum foil, 30 to 40 micron thick laminated with LDPE Film usedin pharmaceutical industry for high moisture sensitive tablet & Capsules packaging .Strip pack doesn't have thermoformed or cold formed cavities; the strip pack is formed around the tablet or capsule when it is dropped to the sealing area between
sealing moulds.
The advantage of strip pack is that Al/PE laminated film has the same protectiveproperty as cold forming aluminum film, that perfectly protects the medicine from moisture,light and oxygen.