Pharmaceutical Filling & Packing .

Our pharmaceutical filling & packing services include the flexible, manual and fully-automated systems we use – designed to meet the varying budgets, products and market needs of our customers. We regularly invest in machinery and equipment to expand our filling and packing capacity.

Blister packaging

Overview:

  • Specialist fully automated blister packing machines
  • Small to high-volume batch runs
  • Large library of existing tooling configurations
  • Bespoke tooling design service
  • Camera detection systems
  • Dedicated product feed systems
  • Automatic secondary cartoning & PIL insertion
  • Serialisation and aggregation at end of line

Dosage forms:

  • Tablets
  • Caplets
  • Hard-shell capsules
  • Soft gel capsules

Materials:

  • PVC / PVDC
  • Triplex
  • Aclar
  • Cold form (Alu-Alu)

Bottle & Tub Filling

Overview:
  • Fully automated and semi-automated filling options
  • In-line application of a variety of capping and closure systems
  • In-line labelling and coding of variable data
  • Automated cartoning & PIL insertion
  • Induction heat sealing
  • Checkweighing
  • Serialisation and aggregation at end of line
  • Dust extraction units for uncoated or dusty products
  • Air handling units to ensure optimal packing environment
Dosage forms:
  • Tablets
  • Caplets
  • Hard-shell capsules
  • Soft gel capsules
  • Liquids – 5ml to 5000ml
  • Powders – 10g to 5000g
Materials:
  • Glass
  • HDPE
  • PET

Sachet Filling

Overview:
  • Vertical Form-Fill-Seal
  • 4-sided seal sachet
  • 10g to 200g fill volume
  • Tear notch if required
  • Variable data coding
  • Secondary packing into cartons & PIL insertion
  • Serialisation & aggregation at end of line
Dosage forms:
  • Powders
  • Granules
Materials:
  • Paper
  • Aluminium
  • Paper-aluminium-paper
  • Clear film

Secondary packing

Overview:
  • Fully automated, semi-automated and manual packing of primary-filled units
  • Bright labelling of pre-filled, sealed ampoules and vials
  • PIL insertion
  • High-potency, cytotoxic, penicillin, hormone, and Schedule 1-5 controlled drugs
  • Serialisation & aggregation
Primary-filled units handled:
  • Blisters, bottles and tubs
  • Ampoules and vials
  • Sachets
  • Pre-filled syringes and tubes
  • Medical devices
Secondary packaging formats:
  • Cartons, blister cards / wallets
  • Point of Sale (POS) displays
  • Shelf Ready Packs (SRPs)
  • Clipstrips

Reworking and Repacking

Overview:
  • Changing packaging materials due to artwork or regulatory changes
  • Over labelling of ampoule, vials, bottle, cartons using high tack blockout label substrates
  • Removal and replacement of cartons and PILs
  • De-blistering and re-blistering
  • Reconfiguration of packing formats
  • Product inspections
  • Scanning serialised cartons for decommissioning and re-serialising with new cartons

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