Pharmaceutical Packaging Machines: Sachets, Cartons and Overwrap

Pharmaceutical packaging machines by packaging step

Choose by the step you need to automate, then by the pack. Pharmaceutical and supplement powders go into stick packs or flat sachets on a multi-lane form fill seal machine. Blister packs, bottles and stick packs go into folding cartons, with a leaflet, on a cartoner. Medicine and supplement boxes are wrapped in clear film with a tear tape on a 3D overwrapping machine. Ampoules and vials are labeled and coded on a labeling machine.

Tablet pressing, capsule filling, blister forming and counting tablets into bottles are not among the machines on this page. If your project includes one of those steps, tell us what you need and we confirm whether it is within our supply scope. Pharmacy pill-dispensing machines are a different product and are not covered here.

How to choose a pharmaceutical packaging machine

Four checks narrow each step to one machine: does your pack fit the listed size range, does the machine reach your good output, do its dosing and protection suit your product, and does it fit the room. Run them in that order, because a pack that does not fit makes the other checks irrelevant.

1. Check the pack against the listed sizes

• Stick packs: the LV-400BF series lists sticks 50–150 mm long and 20–65, 20–85 or 20–105 mm wide, by model. Flat three- and four-side seal powder sachets are compared by width on the powder stick pack and sachet machines page.
• Boxes for overwrapping: the LV-BT280 / LV-BT350 lists boxes 40–200 mm long, 20–120 mm wide and 10–70 mm high. A box outside that range needs a separate review.
• Blister packs and bottles for cartoning: no carton size range is published for our pharmaceutical cartoners. Send the blister size or the bottle height and diameter, the count per carton and a carton blank, and we check the carton size from them.
• Vials and ampoules: send the container diameter and height and the label size. Small formats are checked with samples.

2. Size the machine from good output

A listed speed is the range of the machine, not a rate for your pack. Convert it to the unit you plan with:

• Stick packs: one cut releases one stick from every running lane. Hypothetical example: at an assumed 30 cuts per minute on 8 lanes, an LV-680BF forms 30 × 8 = 240 sticks per minute, before rejects, reel changes and cleaning stops. This is a calculation, not a rating for any model.
• Boxes: the overwrapper lists 30–80 boxes/min and the figure depends on box size, so ask for the rate on your box.
• Cartons: give the sticks, blisters or bottles per minute and the count per carton. Cartons per minute follow from those two numbers, and the cartoner is sized from them.

3. Match dosing and protection to the powder

• Probiotics and other sensitive actives lose activity with moisture and oxygen. The probiotic configurations list nitrogen flushing and high-barrier aluminium-foil laminates. If you work to a residual-oxygen target, state it and have it measured in a trial on your film.
• Fine pharmaceutical powders are dusty and can carry static. Powder on the seal area leads to leaking packs, so the pharmaceutical powder configurations list vacuum extraction at the dosing nozzle and the sealing jaws.
• Collagen, protein and other sticky supplement powders need a dose that can be set lane by lane. With a separate servo auger on each lane, one lane can be corrected without stopping the others. Ask for the fill accuracy on your own powder in a trial.
• Frequent product changes add cleaning time. The pharmaceutical sachet machine lists split, swing-open hoppers and tool-free auger release, and the modular powder packer a quick-change format. Say how often you change product and how you clean between batches.
• Contact-part material differs by configuration: SUS304 or SUS316L on the LV-400BF series, SUS316L on the quick-change pharmaceutical powder packer and on the cartoner for blister and bottle packs. State the material you need and the documents you expect with the machine, and we confirm what we supply.

4. Agree the leaflet, codes and checks

Our pharmaceutical cartoners list leaflet folding and insertion, one lists a check that stops a carton leaving without its leaflet, and one adds vision inspection with automatic rejection. Tell us what must be checked, such as a missing blister, a missing leaflet or an unreadable code, and where the batch and expiry codes are printed: on the stick, the carton or the vial label. We then confirm which checks and coders the machines carry.

5. Check the site

• Power: the LV-400BF series lists 220 V, 50/60 Hz at 4.5, 6 or 7.5 kW by model; the LV-BT280 / LV-BT350 lists 220/380 V, 50/60 Hz at 4.5 kW; the LV-GS150 lists 4.5 kW at 50 Hz. Give the voltage, phase and frequency at the machine position.
• Height and floor: stick packers are tall, 2680–2950 mm across the LV-400BF series before any powder feeder above the hopper. The LV-GS150 measures 1540 × 1375 × 2270 mm and weighs 500 kg; the overwrapper 2100 × 850 × 1500 mm at about 550 kg.
• Compressed air and room: state the air pressure available at the machine and any room conditions you work to, such as temperature and humidity for hygroscopic powders. The requirement for each machine is confirmed in the quotation.

What happens after you send your pharmaceutical packaging details

Send what you have through WhatsApp or the project brief checklist, and mark anything you have not decided as unknown. We check which step and machine fit your pack and output, which options such as nitrogen flushing, dust extraction, leaflet insertion, inspection or a tear tape belong in the scope, and whether a sample test with your powder, film or boxes is worth running first. You then receive a configuration proposal, or a sample-test plan to agree before anything is shipped.