While anti-counterfeiting and sealing are crucial in pharmaceutical packaging, moisture prevention is equally vital. Moisture ingress is a stealthy threat to drug stability. Placing desiccants inside packaging is a common and effective countermeasure. However, in high-speed automated production, whether desiccants can be placed flawlessly and precisely into every single package directly determines the reliability of the entire moisture prevention strategy.
This article covers the specific requirements of different medical packaging forms for desiccant insertion equipment and introduces how PHARMAPACK provides tailored solutions to meet these needs.
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Humidity can lead to softening, caking, adhesion, or leakage of pharmaceutical products. For example, tablets may absorb moisture and soften, or capsules may become sticky.
Medicinal products are prone to oxidation, hydrolysis, or active ingredient decomposition under humid conditions. Therefore, maintaining a dry environment inside the packaging is crucial for their stability.
Effective humidity control helps maintain a stable micro-environment within the packaging, ensuring the medicine retains its intended quality, safety, and efficacy throughout its shelf life.
One of the most direct and effective methods is to place a desiccant inside the medicine packaging to absorb moisture from the environment and create a dry microenvironment.
However, achieving accurate insertion in every container on high-speed production lines is practically unfeasible through manual operations. Even highly skilled personnel cannot maintain the required placement accuracy and consistency while keeping pace with modern packaging lines that often run at hundreds of cycles per minute. This is precisely where desiccant inserter machines play a critical role.
Different pharmaceutical packaging forms present distinct challenges for the desiccant insertion process.
lCore Challenge: The wide variety of bottle mouth sizes, ranging from small plastic bottles to large glass bottles.
lEquipment Requirements: The insertion heads must exhibit high adaptability and quick-change capabilities to accommodate different bottle diameters and minimize downtime.
lCore Challenge: The varying opening states and angles of cartons on the production line, along with the risk of displacing the product or damaging the packaging.
lEquipment Requirements: The insertion mechanism must feature flexible guidance and gentle insertion actions to ensure accurate placement of desiccants without impacting the product or damaging the packaging.
lCore Challenge: The large opening of bags combined with high production speeds occasionally requires the insertion of larger desiccants
lEquipment Requirements: A more powerful drive system is necessary to ensure large desiccants can be inserted quickly and forcefully. Precise synchronization with the production line is also critical to ensure insertion is completed accurately just before sealing.
To address the complex and varied challenges outlined above, PHARMAPACK offers professional desiccant inserter machines with high-precision and high-reliability designs.
lIdeal For: Specifically designed for bottled, boxed, or bagged solid pharmaceuticals such as tablets, pills, and capsules, for inserting granular solid desiccants.
lAddressing Challenges: Its insertion head offers strong adaptability, handling bottle diameters from φ30~φ100mm and reaching speeds of up to 300 BPM, making it highly suitable for the high-output demands of bottled preparations. Utilizing servo drive and PLC control, the LFIS-20/30 inserter machine can maintain precise positioning, effectively preventing missed or incorrect insertions.
lIdeal For: Crafted for inserting pouch-type desiccants into various packaging forms, including round and square bottles.
lAddressing Challenges: The flexible nozzle design of our LFID-12 pouch desiccant inserter adapts to the varying opening states of carton packaging, ensuring accurate and gentle insertion. For bagged products, its powerful drive system ensures stable and reliable output.
Our PHARMAPACK desiccant inserter machines achieve precise and reliable operation through integrated automation. Sensor-PLC interlocking validates container presence before any activation. Servo-controlled cycling provides single-unit accuracy, while a recipe-based HMI system supports precise parameter matching and rapid product changeovers with one-touch operation. This cohesive approach delivers reliable production quality and sustains high efficiency.
In a comprehensive pharmaceutical packaging line, every process must be executed with precision. Among these, the flawless and precise placement of desiccants into each package is not merely a step, but the decisive act that transforms moisture prevention design into tangible safeguarding. PHARMAPACK desiccant inserter machines meet the technical demands of diverse packaging formats, thereby securing the perfect execution of this critical link.
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