Machines and Technology employed in Medical Packaging

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Medical packaging is a wide scoped concept in packaging industry. Numerous kinds of drugs, medicines, instruments, equipments, devices, vials, tablets, syrups, liquids, chemicals and other items and products need different manner of packaging depending upon the requirements.

Factors controlling the adoption of a particular technique of packaging may include temperature, atmospheric conditions, freezing, shelf- life, sterilization, and many other criteria.

Medical Packaging Materials

Plastic is the most important of all materials that do packaging. Plastic applications include plastic bags and sacks; blow molded containers, films and other forms.
Medical device industry is constantly developing with continuous changes in the healthcare sector. The medical device packaging materials include thermoformed trays and tids, pouches roll stocks and bags.
Glass ampoules, tubular vials, refillable glass syringes, and dental cartridges need specialized plastic and poly-compound- films and rolls.
Medical implants need a different kind of packaging known as contract packaging.
Rubber closures and aluminum caps are helpful for inject able drugs.
Different verities of glass are fit for packing various liquids and other medicines in bottles and other shaped containers.
Healthcare packaging needs flexible forming films, foil barrier films, coated papers, PVC coated blister films, peelable films, breather bags, plastic and paper pouches, and numerous other kinds of packaging materials.

Equipments, Machines and Technology employed in Medical Packaging

Medical packaging has flexible and rigid applications of various technologies.
Pouches find general application in medical packaging. Various machines for this purpose include pouch making machines, pouch sealers, pack testers, tray sealers, and labeling machines.
Blisters need various machines and equipments including blister packing machine, strip-packaging machine, filling and dosing machines, and blister pack machine.
Glassware packing need use of filling machines, volumetric machines, mixers, stirrers and capping machines, sealing machines, crowning machines, labeling and marking machines for packaging.
Chemical based drugs and medicine require chemical shifters, dryers, tray dryers, fluid bed dryers, electro plastic equipments, chemical and magnetic stirrers, homogenizers.
Medical, laboratory and scientific instruments and equipments require specialized packing depending upon the size, shape, and other requirements including transportation and use.
Tube based medicines require tube packaging machine, filling machine, sealing machine and capping machines.
Numerous medicines require different kinds of sterilization machines and freezing machines.
Various medicines also require vacuum machines of various types like vacuum granulation machines.
Various kinds of mixers, grinders, powder making machines, granule making machines, dryers, paint machineries, filters, filling machines, canning and food packing machines, laminating machines, welding machine, Thermo-Form-Fill-Seal Machinery and volumetric machines find their application depending upon the needs.