Shrink Wrapping in Pharmaceutical Industry
The Pharma Industry is one of the most aware industry of the concept of Shrink Wrapping. Pharma industry has accepted this concept way back in the 1970’s at a time when use of Corrugated Boxes was the only go to packaging material. A part of the Pharma industry got aware of this concept as at that time their Liquid Lines / Syrup Bottles were made of Glass. The empty Glass Bottles which were supplied to the Pharma industry came in shrink wrapped packs. This initiated the idea of Shrink Wrapping of Glass Bottles filled with Syrup. The birth of this application in the Pharma Industry gave them immense benefits which we shall list out here. This opened the Doors for the concept of Shrink Wrapping worldwide in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
The Benefits of Shrink Wrapping Liquid / Syrup Bottles :-
- Shrink Wrapping replaced the use of Inner Corrugated Cartons and this resulted in immense savings in Packaging Material costs. The savings was anywhere between 30% to 50%.
- Product Identification became very easy as shrink wrapping uses a see through film you could identify a product from the outside as compared to earlier where you needed to open the corrugated box to see the contents.
- Breakage of the Bottles in Handling / Transit reduced substancially as with shrink wrapping the bottles were locked with each other. This locking with shrink film eliminated the rattling movement between bottles and hence the breakage reduced to negligible levels. This advantage made the entire Pharma Industry breathe easy as bottle breakages not only resulted in huge financial losses but also replacement of material, replacement of soggy cartons, lables and repacking hassles were avoided.
- Bottle count per pack also got easy and any shortage of bottles in a pack were addressed at the manufacturing hub itself and not at the warehouse / distributor levels after transportation.
- With shrink wrapping of Syrup Bottles it opened up possibilities of Automation at the secondary packaging level. This in turn helped Shrink Wrapping machine manufacturer’s globally to build more and more shrink wrapping machines with different levels of Automation suited to the Pharma Industry. As a variety of Semi – automatic and Automatic Shrink Wrapping Machines came in secondary packaging in Pharma industry got mechanised and hence got streamlined. This also resulted in savings in Labour Costs, Operational Ease and Higher Productivity.
- As this application grew year on year and as technology grew, shrink wrapping made RFID / Tracking of packs easier, more accurate and consistent.
- The shrink films used in the above application are re-cyclable. The use of shrink films in Pharma have given a huge contribution in Saving Forests / Trees by reducing use of corrugated paper.
- Another significant benefit was Protection from entry of Dust and Foreign Particles.
- With shrink wrapping of their product the industry tasted for the first time the benefit of Tamper Evident form of Packaging.
The above benefits acted as a philip in the Pharma Industry and this opened the floodgates for more applications in the Pharma Industry.
Applications of Shrink Wrapping in the Pharmaceutical Industry are :-
- Shrink Wrapping of 30ml, 60ml, 100ml and 200ml Liquid Bottles in matrices of 6 x 5 / 4 x 3 / 6 x 4
- Shrink Wrapping of Mono cartons like – Capsule Bottles, Tablet Containers, Balm Bottles etc.
- Shrink Wrapping of Ointment Tube Cartons – 10g, 20g, 30g etc in matrices of 5 x 2 / 5 x 3 / 6 x 2 etc.
- Shrink Wrapping of Eye Drops / Ear Drops Bottles in a pack of 25 / 50 etc.
- Shrink Wrapping of a pack of 10 / 20 Blisters.
- Neck shrink sleeving of Bottles to make them tamper proof is also being used widely.
- Full Body Shrink Labelling is used instead of paper lables.
The Applications of Shrink Wrapping in the Pharma Industry keep growing by the Day with the advent of High Speed Automatic Machines making complete Online Automated Production Line a reality in the industry. The advent of Re-cyclable Shrink Films and Bio-Degradable Films have also given a boost to more and more pharma companies embracing this concept for their various products.
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