subject: Blister Packs For Individual Doses [print this page] Does your company need blister packaging? Blister packaging can be used by any company that produces a small product that gets used and discarded. Blister packaging is also called unit dose packaging, and is most commonly thought of for vitamins or medicines. But blister packaging can be used for a wide variety of items that come in a unit dose, and blister packaging can use more than just cold form foil and plastic.
Packaging is important part of any product placement nowadays. If you have a product that is not too large and is either consumed upon use or discarded after one use, blister packaging may be just the thing for your product. The classic packaging is what is called cold form foil that a pill will sit on. The pill is then covered by a thin film of plastic to seal the pill in place. You remove the pill from the package by pressing against the plastic side and blistering the cold form foil until it breaks. Hence the name blister packaging was given to this packaging method.
Often a blister packaging product will come in packs in which a number of the individual product is placed on a card to provide something solid for the customer to hold on to. The cold form foil is laminated to one side of the card, covering holes on which the small product is placed. The plastic seal on top of the hole is flexible enough to move when the customer pushes on it, thus making the foil blister on the back side and so that the customer can remove the product. While pills are the most common form of product that uses this packaging, any small item that can be consumed or used just once could make use of blister packaging. Small candies could be put in a blister pack with a clear plastic cover to show off their colors. Even toothbrushes could go into a blister pack, for packaging to a large discount store that sells everything in large quantities.
The materials used in blister packaging are surprisingly varied as well. For a medicinal or nutriceutical product that requires special packaging, special vapor barriers or oxygen barriers can be used to keep the product isolated from the environment. This can be a great advantage to maintaining the freshness of a product, which can be a great point to make in a marketing campaign.
Even the cosmetic industry can use unit dose packaging, a variation of blister packaging. Lotions and creams need some different packaging, of course, but can be put in a stronger plastic which is still easy to open. This can be a great way to do packaging for new product that customers might want to sample in small doses before committing to a large purchase.
So the range of products that can make use of blister packaging is really quite wide. If you have any small product that will ship in a unit dose, you should have a conversation with a blister packaging company to see what they can come up with for your packaging. Their company will certainly have a design and engineering team that knows all of the equipment and materials that they can use to create an innovative packaging design for your product.
