Plastic pack contains unit-dose blister packs

Child-resistance, senior friendliness, patient compliance, product protection, brand differentiation, and the ability to run on existing blister packaging equipment are the key benefits that earned a DuPont Silver Award for Shellpak™ from MeadWestvaco Healthcare Packaging.

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A two-piece “shell,” Shellpak is injection-molded of FDA-grade high-impact polystyrene by AGI Polymatrix, a MeadWestvaco company. It functions as a secondary pack for blister-packed pharmaceutical pills and tablets. Commercial use of the product for prescription and over-the-counter drugs is anticipated sometime this year, according to MeadWestvaco.

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