Blog posts tagged with 'blister packaging'

With the continuous improvement of the packaging industry, new types of packaging materials and packaging products have emerged in the market. A blister package capable of sealing a product between a blister formed by a transparent plastic sheet and a bottom plate is a packaged product that has been developed according to market demand.

Aluminum-plastic blister packaging for pharmaceuticals has developed rapidly in recent years. Because of its long shelf life and portability, this package is increasingly popular with pharmaceutical companies and consumers. The tropical aluminum blister package is a packaging form specially developed to enhance the barrier properties of aluminum-plastic blister packaging, and is particularly suitable for packaging food, medicine, health care products and the like which have high barrier performance requirements.

The original inventor of this packaging cannot be verified, and the earliest record we can find now is the patent US2415859A registered by Enock Ancker on Feb 18, 1947, Then in 1971, M Nichols submit an Apparatus for inserting tablets into blister packages(patent US3724165A).

Blister packaging is a widely used packaging form. For different blister packaging, the blister, cavity, and box are different, as well as the shape, it will be different based on different products to be packed. Also, there are various substrates, materials and heat-sealing method for blister packaging.

Blister packaging refers to a packaging method of highly efficient and low-cost. The product is usually sealed between the blister and the bottom plate (generally made of cardboard, plastic film or sheet, aluminum foil or a composite thereof) by heat sealing or other methods. For taking tablets, squeeze blister by hand and tablets will come out from the aluminum foil. Therefore, blister packaging is also called as foamed packaging or press-through packaging.