Explaining Frangible Seal Packaging

Does your final product include multiple ingredients requiring separate storage until use? For customers who need to store and dispense multiple components in a single pouch, frangible seal packaging is the ideal solution. With this unique packaging technology, you can ensure that your ingredients remain stable and safe until use.

Key Points

Frangible seal packaging is ideal for liquids, powders, and gels required to be separated until they’re ready for use.
Consumers mix and dispense the pouch’s ingredients together to create a functional product.
Chemicals, medical devices, lubricants, and food and beverage ingredients are often packaged and stored in frangible seal packaging.
Frangible seals can enhance tamper-proofing efforts, reduce damage and contamination, and improve product quality and patient safety.

What Is Frangible Seal Packaging?

Frangible seal packaging is a type of blister packaging ideal for products that require pre-measured liquids, gels, or powders that must be separated. When customers are ready, the ingredients are mixed in the pouch and dispensed on site to create a functional product. These have a wide variety of applications, from medical devices and cleaning chemicals to food and beverage products.

How Does Frangible Seal Packaging Work?

Frangible seal packages make it easy to activate the contents by simply applying pressure to burst the seal and mix the components together. Customers can then use a dispenser tip, spout, tear notch, or cut the corner of the pouch to release the contents precisely.

What Goes in a Seal Packaging Pouch?

Liquids, gels, powder
Two-part or single epoxy compounds
Inks
Chemicals
Medical devices
Lubricants
Food and beverage ingredients
Greases, sealants, and adhesives
Silicones
Urethanes
UV curable compounds

Frangible seal packaging and other types of blister packs are required to pass a leak test to ensure products remain safe and effective until end-use.

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Benefits of Frangible Seal Packaging

Enhances Tamper-Proofing

Frangible seals provide an extra layer of protection against tampering. Seal packaging features, like tear notches, make it easy to detect when a package has been opened or tampered with. You can easily ensure that your packaging is intact and in its original condition before shipping, spotting damaged notches and seals with a simple glance.

Improves Production Efficiency and Costs

Frangible seals are more cost-effective than traditional closures like plastics, rubber, or metal, allowing you to save money on materials. Additionally, since they open quickly and easily, they can speed up the production process, reduce labor costs, increase efficiency, and simplify quality control.

Reduces Damage and Contamination

By using only non-frangible seals on the outside of your packaging and frangible seals inside, you can protect your products from damage and contamination while still providing tamper evidence.

Maintains Product Integrity

If your product is susceptible to deterioration when exposed to the air or water vapor, frangible seal packaging can maintain product integrity until customer use. Products like medication and food benefit by keeping the product at its highest quality until it reaches the end user.

Improves Patient Safety

Frangible seals create a complete barrier around the product that prevents water, dust, and other contaminants from entering the package, ensuring that the product remains safe, fresh, and sterile until it reaches the consumer.

Helps the Environment

Switching to frangible seal packaging can also reduce waste associated with traditional materials, such as plastics and rubber closures. Since seal pouch packaging is often made from recycled paper or cardboard material, it’s an eco-friendly option if you’re striving to achieve packaging sustainability in your operations.

Child Resistant

According to the Poison Prevention Packaging Act, blister packaging that contains potentially harmful medications for children is required to be child resistant. Some seal packaging is also child resistant, which means they’re designed to be difficult to open for children under five but easy to open for adults.

Multiple Variations

There are a variety of options available when you use seal packaging for your product. You can choose from multiple variations, such as one, two, or three component liquid, paste, and powder systems, which means you get the proper packaging that meets your product needs, and is visually appealing to the customer.

Easy-to-Read Doses and Serving Sizes

Seal packaging is designed with well defined dosages, meaning the customer simply has to open the package and use the product without measuring or weighing the contents. For medication, easy-to-read doses and serving sizes also prevent accidental overdosing.

Frangible Seal Packaging Machines for Almost Any Application

At Ascend Packaging Systems, we offer a wide range of frangible seal packaging machines compatible for almost any application, from pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals to animal health products. Along with our advanced equipment, our team of experienced professionals can provide you with the support you need to manufacture high-quality packaging solutions based on your application. Contact us today to learn more about our blister packaging equipment.