Child-Resistant Packaging Solutions

Ascend Packaging Systems is the leading manufacturer of machines and tooling that produce quality compliance packaging for your tablets or capsules. With over 50 years of experience with tablet packaging compliance, we innovate ways to comply with child-resistant packaging requirements. Our machines and tooling are designed for precision to protect your product from contamination.

With us as your packaging experts, you get the means to manufacture packaging that’s easy for adults to open but difficult for children. That’s why we’re the leading manufacturer of tablet packaging equipment and tooling for a wide range of industries.

Child-Resistant Packaging Requirements

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates tablet packaging for pharmaceutical products. There are several significant regulatory requirements in pharmaceutical packaging that Ascend follows to ensure child-resistant packaging approval:

The compliance packaging must not interfere with the effectiveness of the substance contained inside.
This drug packaging requirement can be satisfied by properly evaluating the compatibility of the substance with the special packaging.
The package design must also support the number of openings and closings customary for its size and contents for packaging approval.
This compliance pack requirement can be satisfied by testing the packaging’s physical wear and stress factors and the force required for activation.
Tablet packaging is approved if, for the duration of regular use, the effectiveness of the packaging’s opening and closing method remains in quality condition.

At Ascend, our experts know best practices to ensure that child-resistant packaging requirements never interfere with your product. We streamline the packaging approval process by ensuring that your bottle-filling or blister packaging machine meets child-resistant packaging requirements without compromising product quality and effectiveness.

Deblistering Machines for Push-Through Packaging

Our deblistering machines for push-through packaging offer a cost-effective way to maximize space and still deblister packaging when needed.

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Child-Resistant Packaging Solutions

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Deblistering Machines and Child-Resistant Packaging

There are plenty of reasons you might need to salvage a product that’s packaged—you might have aesthetic errors in the packaging or labeling, or your blister line needs more adjustment to run at its best. We also know that child-resistant packaging presents its own challenges. Recovering by hand is time-consuming and poses various safety and health risks. We work directly with your team to recommend the right one for you.

Press Out Universal Features and Benefits Technical Specifications

Sepha Press Out Universal Deblistering Machine

The Sepha Press Out Universal deblistering machine is a high-speed solution in child-resistant deblistering equipment. It automatically feeds blister packs from the magazine stack to a cutting station. The tablets or capsules are gently, yet accurately deblistered and collected separately. The entire mechanism is designed for jam-free operation.

Features and Benefits of the Press Out Universal Deblistering Machine

Automated
Fully Automatic

Fast Operation
Deblister up to 50 packs a minute

Time-Saving
Tool-less changeover and maintenance free

Professional Construction
Fully cGMP, open construction for total access and easy, fast cleaning

Validatable
Allen Bradley PLC with source code for validation

Technical Specifications for the Press Out Universal Deblistering Machine

Operation
Automatic

Machine Construction
All product contact areas are stainless steel 316 and aluminum and ABS Food Grade.

Blisters layout
All

Blister type
Push-thru and child resistant /peelable/multi-product

Maximum Pack Size
Width: 105mm (4.1 inches)
Length: 140mm (5.5 inches)

Operating speed
Up to 50 blister packs per minute with variable speed control

Power supplies
Single-phase electricity 110/230V
Air supply: 6 bar (90psi)

Approx tooling changeover
5 minutes

Machine dimensions
640 mm (W) x 980 mm (L) x 1530 mm (H)
(25.2- x 38.6- x 60.2 inches)

Machine weight
230kg (507 pounds)

Shipping weight
330kg (728 pounds)

Press Out Universal Mini Features and Benefits Technical Specifications

Sepha Press Out Universal Mini Deblistering Machine

The requirement for product recovery is not always necessary on a massive scale, such as with runs for R&D or clinical trials. These shorter runs do not need the same scale of deblistering machinery. For these instances, Ascend offers the Sepha Press Out Universal Mini. It is a benchtop automated deblistering machine designed for recovering low volume short runs of valuable or fragile product from all types of blister packaging, including: child-resistant, senior-friendly, paper-backed, and au/alu packs.

Features and Benefits of the Press Out Universal Mini Deblistering Machine

The Sepha Press Out Universal Mini offers

Simple Design
Compact benchtop unit and simple operation

Easy-to-Use
Train operators for this product recovery machine in just minutes

Cutting-Edge
316L stainless steel product receiver. Variable speed up to 16 blister packs/minute.

Professional Construction
Fully cGMP, open construction for total access and easy cleaning

Validatable
Allen Bradley PLC with source code for validation

Time-Saving
Maintenance free with tool-less changeover

Technical Specifications of the Press Out Universal Mini Deblistering Machine

Operation
Automatic

Blister Type
Push-thru, child resistant, peelable and multi-product

Blister Layout
All

Pack Dimensions
Max 105 mm (4.1 inches wide)
Max 140 mm (5.5 inches long)

Construction
Stainless Steel Grade 316 & 304

User Interface
3-inch Monochrome Touchscreen HMI

Utilities
Electrical: 110/230V AC Single Phase Air supply: 6 bar

Operating Speed
Up to 16 packs per minute

Tooling Changeover
3 minutes

Machine Dimensions
Width: 555 mm (21.8 inches); Length: 615 mm (24.2 inches); Height: 688 mm (27 inches)

Machine Weight
62.5 kg (138 pounds)

Shipping Weight
112.5 kg (248 pounds)

Warranty
Supplied with a 12-month warranty. (Service Level Agreements are available for additional support.)

Applications for the Press Out Universal and Universal Mini Deblistering Machines

All Sepha product recovery and deblistering machines are supplied with comprehensive documentation and an instruction manual. Ascend also provides on-site training and support.

The applications for this equipment includes but is not limited to:

Push-through blister packages
Child-resistant blister packages
Heavy gauge alu/alu
Paper-backed blister packages
Linear formats
Multi-product blister packages

Press Out Universal
Medium to large batches of all types of blister formats and designs
Press Out Universal Mini
Small to medium batches of all types of blister formats and designs

Put Our Years of Experience to Work for Your Business.

We’re prepared to support our customers with all their packaging equipment needs.

Child-Resistant Packaging Solutions

Child-Resistant Packaging Requirements

Deblistering Machines for Push-Through Packaging

Child-Resistant Packaging Solutions

Deblistering Machines and Child-Resistant Packaging

Sepha Press Out Universal Deblistering Machine

Features and Benefits of the Press Out Universal Deblistering Machine

Technical Specifications for the Press Out Universal Deblistering Machine

Sepha Press Out Universal Mini Deblistering Machine

Features and Benefits of the Press Out Universal Mini Deblistering Machine

Technical Specifications of the Press Out Universal Mini Deblistering Machine

Applications for the Press Out Universal and Universal Mini Deblistering Machines

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