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As the UK's leading supplier of packaging materials to the pharmaceutical
and healthcare industries, Alcan Packaging Cramlington has a close
understanding of the demanding requirements for this primary component.
Blister packs allow for the hygienic packaging of solid dose
presentations such as tablets, pills, capsules and also medical
devices.
Clearly the first objective achieved is functional, ensuring
products are suitably protected from contamination and meet shelf-life
requirements.
Blisters offer advantages of convenience and improved patient
compliance, as well as providing an attractive, finished, complete
pack direct from the manufacturer to the end user.
In addition, suitably printed, they allow you a superb marketing
opportunity to establish your brand identity in the patient's
mind, improving the chances of your product gaining
repeat purchase/prescription
Push-through Lidding Foil
Conventional blister packs are created by thermo-forming a web
of plastic film, normally PVC, into pockets. These are filled
with the pharmaceutical product e.g. tablet or capsules and then
sealed using heat and pressure.
The product is removed from the pack by then consumer pressing
it through from the pocket side through the foil.
Packaging materials are supplied in reels - dimensions depend
upon the packaging machine being used. Close links with all major
blister machine manufactures are maintained by Alcan Packaging,
our R&D centre in Neuhausen, Switzerland and our sister companies
to ensure that we remain at the forefront of new developments
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