Aluminum Foil Blister and Strip Packaging

Alufoil For Medicinal Packaging

The many properties of alufoil combine to provide a user-friendly, safe and versatile packaging form for tablets, ointments, liquids and powders. The excellent barrier properties of aluminum foil. completely exclude moisture, oxygen and other gases, microorganisms and light, keeping degradable products in optimum condition for a long time.

Definition of Aluminum Foil Blister and Strip Packaging

Blister packaging and strip packaging are two popular forms of the Pharmaceutical packaging system

Blister packaging is a form of unit dose packaging in which a pre-formed semi-rigid blister/cavity is filled with product and covered with a heat sealable backing material. Here, the blister/cavity/pouch is formed by a thermoforming or cold forming process.

Strip packaging is an alternative form of unit-dose packaging in which a pharmaceutical product is enclosed between two sheets of heat-sealable flexible film by a heated reciprocating platen or heated crimping roll.

Strip packaging and Blister packaging processes

Strip packaging process: A strip packaging is formed around the tablet as it falls through a heated reciprocating platen or heated crimping roll into the sealing area between two sheets of heat-sealable flexible film.

Blister packaging process: Blister packaging is made by a form-fill-seal method. First, a semi-rigid blister/cavity is formed by a thermoforming or cold forming process, then the product is filled and covered with a heat sealable backing material.<br>