PACKAGING
Dr. M. Naeem Aamir
• Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting
products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.
• Pharmaceutical packaging can be defined as the economical means of
providing presentation, protection, identification, information, convenience,
compliance, integrity and stability of the product .
FUNCTIONS OF PACKAGING
• Product Identification:- Packaging greatly helps in identification of products.
• Product Protection:- Packaging protects the contents of a product from
spoilage, breakage, leakage, etc.
• Facilitating the use of product:- Packaging should be convenience to open,
handle and use for the consumers.
• Product Promotion:- Packaging is also used for promotional and attracting the
attention of the people while purchasing.
TYPES OF PACKAGING
PRIMARY PACKAGING- IS THE MATERIAL THAT FIRST ENVELOPS THE
PRODUCT AND HOLD IT. THIS USUALLY IS THE SMALLEST UNIT OF
DISTRIBUTION OR USE.
EX. AEROSOL SPRAY CAN, BLISTER PACKS, BOTTLE
SECONDARY PACKAGING -
IS OUTSIDE THE PRIMARY PACKAGING PERHAPS USED TO GROUP
PRIMARY PACKAGE TOGETHER.
EX. BOXES, CARTONS
TERTIARY PACKAGING- IS USED TO BULK HANDLING AND
SHIPPING.
EX. BARREL, CONTAINER, EDGE PROTECTOR
TYPES OF PACKAGING MATERIALS USED FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING
• Glass
• Plastics
• Rubbers
• Paper/card boards
• Metals
PACKAGING LINE:
Packaging Line is a coordinated system, formed by single or multiple equipment, that performs
packaging of goods for transport, warehousing, logistic and sale.
PACKAGING EQUIPMENT
• Packaging machinery is used throughout all packaging operations, involving primary packages to distribution packs. This includes
many packaging processes: fabrication, cleaning, filling, sealing, combining, labeling, overwrapping, palletizing.
• Function:
• Improve labor productivity
• Ensure packaging quality.
• Handle specialized requirements, such as vacuum packaging, inflatable packaging, skin packaging and pressure filling.
• Reduce labor and improve working conditions for bulky/heavy products.
• Protect workers from health effects brought by dust, toxic/hazardous products and prevent environmental contamination.
• Reduce packaging costs and save storage costs for loose products, such as cotton, tobacco, silk, linen, etc., by simply using
compression packaging.
• Reliably ensure product hygiene by eliminating hand contact with food and medicines.
BLISTER PACKAGE
Blister package provides excellent environmental protection, and efficacious appearance.
It also provides user functionality in terms of convenience, child resistance and tamper
resistance
The blister package is formed by heat softening a sheet of thermoplastic resin and vacuum
drawing the soften sheet of plastic into a contoured mold .
After cooling the sheet is released from the mold and proceeds to the filling station of the
machine. It is then lidded with heat sealable backing material
Peel able backing material is used to meet the requirements of child resistance packaging.
The material such as polyester or paper is used as a component of backing lamination.
Materials commonly used for the thermo formable blister are PVC, polyethylene
combinations, polystyrene and polypropylene.
STRIP PACKAGE
• A strip package is a form of unit dose packaging that is commonly used
for the packaging of tablets and capsule .
• A strip package is formed by feeding two webs of a heat sealable
flexible through heated crimping roller.
• The product is dropped into the pocket formed prior to forming the
final set of seals. A continuous strip of packets is formed in general.
• The strip of packets is cut into desired number of packets.
• Different packaging materials used are: paper/polyethylene/foil/PVC.
LABELING MACHINE
• In the simplest of terms, a labeling machine is used to dispense and apply labels
to products. However, each type of machine is slightly different from others,
especially those classified based on the level of automation. These labeling
machines come in different designs and configurations. This makes them
function differently.
• Place a label stock on the label roll holder. This component comes with a spindle that is used to place and hold the label stock as fed
into the machine. Pull the tail of the label roll and thread it through rollers, the code printer, the photoelectric sensor, and the take-up
reel.
• Load bottles onto an infeed turntable, which is connected to a conveyor. The loading action can be either performed by hand or an
upstream conveyor.
• The bottles are transferred to the labeling area by the conveyor. There's a spacer wheel sitting on the side of the conveyor. This
component stops the passing bottles for seconds and releases them. This ensures bottles are even spaced as they pass through the
labeling station on the conveyor.
• When the even-spaced bottles reach the labeling area, a belt applicator dispenses labels to each bottle as they pass. The synchronous
movement of the belt applicator and the conveyor enables the bottle to rotate. This allows the label to be applied to the bottle.
• Once applied with labels, the bottles are transferred to an accumulation table.
Thank You
