Packaging
At Ropack, our goal is to provide quality primary and secondary packaging solutions that stabilize potency, sustain efficacy, and ensure robust shelf life. Our skilled and cross-trained staff, state-of-the-art facilities, and nearly 50 years of packaging experience make us a sought-after partner in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.
Ropack’s six bottling lines allow for quick changeovers, online validated fill accuracy, and the flexibility to accommodate small lots to commercial runs.
Key bottling features
- Bottling of tablets, powders, capsules, and gel caps
- 40 cc to 750 cc bottles
- Induction seals and permaseals
- Child-resistant and senior-friendly caps
- Safety seal with complete body band
- Outsert applied over bottle cap
- Rayon coil or cotton
- Desiccant pouch insertion
- Insert between the bottle and body band
- Label-viewing system for checking lot numbers, expiry dates, and 2D Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) coding
- Single and multilayer label applied to bottle
- Complete serialization line
- Inline cartoning capability
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Flip-top vials are excellent formats for the probiotic and nutraceutical market segments. Offering an integrated desiccant within the vial itself ensures greater product stability and potency over traditional bottles using a desiccant canister or sachet. This allows for superior barrier protection, mitigating loss of potency for these key consumer products.
Key flip-top vial features
- Airtight and leak-proof construction
- Desiccant sleeve for controlled moisture absorption that ensures your product’s stability and maximizes shelf life
- Convenient opening and closing with one hand
- Custom-designed, automated, and integrated primary and secondary packaging line
- Inline cartoning capability
- Stretch band grouping carton
- Label-viewing system for checking lot numbers and expiry dates
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Our blister services include thermoformed and cold-formed solutions across seven flexible blister lines. From high-speed, fully integrated lines to smaller-scale applications, Ropack has over 6,000 tooling parts already in our inventory. For unavailable tooling parts, Ropack has an in-house machining centre to manufacture the required tooling. This greatly reduces timelines and costs, allowing our partners to move to market rapidly and offer their customers increased value.
Key blister features
- Thermoformed using PVC, PVC/PVDC, PVC/PE/PVDC, Aclar® Rx, Aclar® VA7300
- Cold-formed using alu/alu and Aclar®
- Highest-quality barrier film for increased resistance to relative humidity (RH) and O2
- Barcodes on back for compliance
- Imprinting on back, random print, unit dose print with register
- Electronic vision system and online monitoring devices
- Senior-friendly and child-resistant blisters
- Folding wallet cards for sampling or added marketing and client communication
- Capability to print 2D code on each blister with verification system
- Capability to serialize from carton to pallet
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Ropack is equipped to produce sachets that are well suited to the needs of manufacturers and consumers alike. Our sachets are an ideal option for fill weights of 2 g or more, and for formulas mixed in food or liquid. They can extend shelf life and improve flavour retention, and their convenience can lead to improved consumer compliance. Ropack sachets are packed under nitrogen and controlled humidity, and pouches and cartons can be coded inline.
Key sachet features
- Powder, solid, or liquid/cream fill
- Filled under nitrogen; under controlled humidity
- Powder unit dose fill: 2 g to 150 g
- Less than 2 g can be evaluated with more information
- Sachet width range: 54 mm to 120 mm
- Sachet height range: 54 mm to 241 mm
- Single or double sachet formats, with or without perforation between pouches
- With or without tear notch
- Solid two-stage filling
- Liquid or cream fill: 1 mL to 70 mL
- Embossing or inkjet coding
- 2D coding with GTIN, expiry date, batch
- Camera inspection with reject control
- Inline checkweigher to control the weight
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Ropack’s stick pack capabilities are powered by state-of-the-art equipment. Our vertical pouching and cartoning machines can fill up to 1,000 sachets per minute (with up to +/- 5% accuracy!) before cartoning them according to your needs.
Key stick pack features
- Direct connection from mixing tank to stick pack line
- Reduced risk of segregation or contamination
- Powder unit dose fill up to 1,500 mg
- Stick pack width: 25 mm
- Stick pack height range: 50 mm to 120 mm
- Inline cartoning: 12 to 36 stick packs per carton
- Bundling and casing inline
- Laser coding, lot, and expiry date
- Camera inspection with reject control
- Inline checkweigher to control the weight
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Kit assembly is a flexible service Ropack offers to ensure that our partners’ innovative solutions can hit the market rapidly while we work to automate and streamline as much of the process as possible. As always, we operate these services within cGMP-, FDA-, and Health Canada–approved facilities under ambient or cold chain management and humidity control with the capability to handle controlled substances.
Our services include:
- Pre-filled vial labelling
- Blister pack thermosealing cards, for bifold or trifold wallet-type cartons
- Labelling or relabelling with 2D coding serialization and aggregation available
- Folding cartons with or without patient inserts
- Tamper-evident, bundling, shrink wrapping, banding
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging solutions as required, including repackaging services in sealed-end or reverse-tuck cartons