With the blister packaging market booming, how can we ensure the quality of medicines at the "last mile"?
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- Nov 22,2025
Summary
With rising global morbidity rates and a deepening aging population, the demand for pharmaceuticals is experiencing significant growth.
With rising global morbidity rates and a deepening aging population, the demand for pharmaceuticals is experiencing significant growth. Against this backdrop, pharmaceutical packaging, as a crucial element in ensuring drug safety and efficacy, is receiving increasing attention for its user-friendly and error-proof design. Among various packaging formats, blister packaging, with its excellent barrier properties, attractive appearance, long shelf life, ease of use, high transparency, and convenient dosage administration, has demonstrated strong development potential and has become one of the most widely used and fastest-growing flexible packaging formats in the pharmaceutical industry, consequently driving an explosive growth in demand for blister-packaged pharmaceuticals.
According to in-depth research and analysis, the global pharmaceutical blister packaging market reached 159.2 billion yuan in 2025, and is expected to continue to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.84%, reaching 270 billion yuan by 2032.
Blister packaging is typically formed using vacuum suction, blow molding, or compression molding. After the medicine is filled into the blister pack, it is covered with materials such as aluminum foil and heat-sealed under specific temperature, pressure, and time conditions. However, due to various factors in the manufacturing process, finished blister pack medicines inevitably have appearance defects. Ensuring that every blister pack meets stringent pharmaceutical quality standards has become a real problem that pharmaceutical companies must face.
So, how can we achieve efficient and precise quality control while maintaining high-speed production? Fame Machinery's independently developed fully automatic blister pack inspection machine is a solution specifically addressing this pain point. This equipment can be integrated with blister packaging machines for in-line operation, performing comprehensive automatic inspection of both sides of the blister pack. It can quickly and accurately identify various defects in capsules, tablets, and the blister pack itself, and automatically separate defective products. Its maximum inspection speed can reach 800 times per minute, fully matching the high-speed operation requirements of modern tablet and capsule production lines, providing strong assurance for quality stability under mass production.
Looking to the future, with increasingly stringent drug quality management systems, competition in the pharmaceutical industry will increasingly focus on technology and product quality. Under this trend, highly reliable and precise visual inspection equipment will undoubtedly become one of the key tools for pharmaceutical companies to enhance compliance and market competitiveness. Our company has many years of technical accumulation and application experience in the field of pharmaceutical visual inspection, and is committed to providing the industry with competitive inspection solutions. We look forward to working with more pharmaceutical companies to explore optimized paths for quality control and help the blister packaging industry achieve healthier and more sustainable development.
