Great development on domestic blister packing machine

Pharmaceutical packing is vital to medical safety. In recent years, as the pharmaceutical industry has experienced rapid growth, the market scale of the pharmaceutical packing is becoming larger and larger. The data shows that global market demand has increased at an annual rate of 6% in terms of pharmaceutical packing. In China, pharmaceutical packing market has risen at an average rate of 10.6% between 2014 and 2018. As far as I know, the blister packing is a common packing form in the field of pharmaceutical packing. Compared with the medicine packed in a bottle, the medicine with blister packing is convenient to carry, and it won’t be less polluted in the process of carrying. As such, the blister packing is pretty popular.

For many patients, the blister packing makes their life more convenient. However, how is the blister cartoning machine developing in recent years and what technological breakthroughs has been made in the domestic blister packing machine industry?

Improved independent research and development capacity and domestic developing blister packing machine industry

Some core technologies of the blister packing machine mostly are brought in from overseas in the past given multiple reasons.“Although the production needs can be satisfied by introducing foreign technologies, there still exist such disadvantages that it has lowered production efficiency and higher cost and that it meets more challenges in terms of overhaul." People in charge of the enterprise said.

In recent years, many companies start to be committed to independent research and development so as to develop domestic blister packing machine industry.“We spend 5% to10% of sales revenue in research and development every year, and we are increasingly strengthening to foster relevant technical staffs.” The manager in an interview said.

Nowadays the technology in domestic blister packing machine industry has been improved significantly through unceasing technological breakthrough and innovation. For example, a company push out DHL-700 high speed blister packing and cartoning machine and IBR24 intelligent robot developed by itself at the 56th Pharmaceutical Machine Exhibition held recently. The relevant people in charge indicated that the IBR24 intelligent robot is better in model, speed match and working condition compared with ABB intelligent robot introduced by DHL-600 blister packing machine.

As the pharmaceutical packing market expands unceasingly, the capacity of independent research and development for pharmaceutical blister packing machine has been improved continuously.The manufacturing of the machine has gradually evolved from simple imitation to independent R&D and innovation. Industrial insiders believe the key of independent and innovative R&D is to cultivate talents. “ Only by taking the key talent strategy can we continuously improve the ability and strength of independent research and development, enhance the market competitiveness and achieve technological breakthroughs." Some insiders said.

More and more intelligent product and lowered medical safety risk

With the unceasing implementation of “China manufacturing 2025” strategy, the intelligent manufacturing has been one major direction of all walks of life. Similarly, the intelligence has become one key point for enterprise ice-breaking in the field of blister packing machine. Though the machine intelligence has a long way to go, many companies has taken an important step in terms of intelligent automatic linkage  

The high speed blister packing and automatic cartoning linkage production line developed and produced by an enterprise can achieve such functions as automatic blister forming, material feeding, blister filling, automatic detection for waste rejecting, automatic queuing of medicine plates, the transmission to automatic cartoning machine hopper, cantilever-type blister packing and automatic cartoning. The production line adopts rotary sucking head with new patent and intelligent medicine plate queuing technology, so it can take 600 plates of drugs into the medicine plate hopper every minute stably. It also can make perfect speed match with the ZHJ-400D automatic cartoning machine.

The continuous breakthrough of intelligent automation technology not only dramatically improves the production efficiency, but also reduces manual operation, making the production cleaner and safer. "High automation and high cleanliness are more in line with GMP requirements." Industry insider Mr. Xu said.

In addition, some companies make continuous upgrade in product design so as to further lower medicine safety risk. Taking DHL-700 as an example, one major breakthrough is the realization of separate production of inner packing and outer packing. “ The separation zone better separates production purification workshop from non-clean zone, and the bacteria is not easy to enter, which makes cleaner packing and smaller safety risk. Of course, it is more in line with GMP requirements.” People in charge explained.  

Besides, a manager thinks that the soft alu-alu 450 packaging equipment developed by his company better meets the customer's requirements for high modularity, makes up for the lack of blister non-shading, and extends the product shelf life.

Drug safety is not only related to the lives of millions of households, but also the lives of pharmaceutical enterprises. The blister packing machine is an important equipment of pharmaceutical packaging industry, and its technological upgrade and breakthrough not only improve the production efficiency of pharmaceutical packaging enterprises, but also ensure drug safety and further reduce the risks.