SmartWallet from Bosch Packaging Technology

Bosch Packaging Technology introduces SmartWallet: a new, easy to manufacture wallet style package for solid pharmaceuticals.

SmartWallet offers pharmaceutical manufacturers a wallet solution that is convenient, easy to use, tamper evident, reclosable and cost-effective. In addition, the equipment required to create SmartWallet has a smaller footprint and requires a smaller overall investment in comparison to conventional wallet packing machines.

Wallet style packs for pharmaceuticals offer many benefits to pharmaceutical producers and patients, but complex production requirements have limited the scope of applications in the marketplace. With SmartWallet, production investment is similar to conventional folding boxes, opening wallet packaging to a wider range of applications.

The key to SmartWallet’s efficiency is the pre-glued outer sleeve of the wallet, which can be erected and loaded with the blister on a conventional cartoning machine. The blister, optionally with an additional paperboard card, is glued into the outer sleeve by means of lateral holding flaps. Leaflets or booklets with further patient guidance can be pre-configured in the outer sleeve, introduced into the wallet during packing, or be integrated into the outer packaging.

SmartWallet cartoning machines can also be built to produce both wallets and conventional folding boxes. The system is capable of production speeds of up to 100 wallets per minute, however continuous motion wallet cartoners offer production speeds of 300 wallets per minute for higher volume applications.