Development status and trend of pharmaceutical packaging

In recent years, with the great influence of the improvement of people's life on the development of medicine, the pharmaceutical industry has developed rapidly in China in recent years According to statistics, in 2004, the added value of China's pharmaceutical industry totaled 141 billion yuan, including 126 billion yuan in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, an increase of 18.7% year on year; and 346.9 billion yuan in sales revenue in pharmaceutical industry, including 326.9 billion yuan in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, an increase of 17.1% year on year With the rapid and stable development of China's economy, the further improvement of people's living standards, the reform of the medical security system and the expansion of urban residents' medical insurance, the increase of medical expenses caused by the aging of the national population and the increase of the development of new drugs, a series of elements that have a huge role in promoting the development of medicine will promote the rapid growth of China's pharmaceutical industry InMomentum Because of the rapid development of China's pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical packaging materials and containers began to come to the front stage, and pharmaceutical packaging has become an important part of the development of pharmaceutical industrialization Some experts predict that the next few years will be a critical period for the rapid development of China's pharmaceutical packaging industry With the improvement of people's consumption level and the introduction of new regulations and standards in related industries, the pharmaceutical product packaging industry will undergo a fundamental change At present, almost all of the top 100 pharmaceutical companies in the world have established joint ventures or wholly-owned pharmaceutical enterprises in China, which not only brings more new drug varieties, but also brings advanced pharmaceutical packaging concepts and standards It is the different requirements of these foreign pharmaceutical enterprises for packaging that impels Chinese pharmaceutical packaging enterprises to constantly update and introduce pharmaceutical packaging machinery, materials and technology Pharmaceutical packaging industry also presents a new situation to some extent In recent years, the packaging of solid drugs in China, such as capsules, injections, and externally pasted drugs, has been updated rapidly At the same time, the use of disposable plastic syringes has brought a great change to the packaging and application of injections in China The improvement of infusion packaging is also moving towards the packaging of composite soft packaging bags and plastic bottles To develop In the past, the main customers of the pharmaceutical industry were doctors and pharmacists Today, with the trend of self purchase of self-made drugs becoming more and more popular, the pharmaceutical industry is also booming, with more and more customers In Guangzhou, for example, about 30% of pills, drops, ointments and sprays are purchased directly through the sales counter These provide a broad market for pharmaceutical packaging, but also put forward higher requirements for packaging enterprises Drug packaging requirements not only need to follow the relevant national policies and decrees, according to the market changes to change the concept, but also need to consider the use of safety design, such as: drug packaging must consider the compatibility of drugs, as well as the impact of packaging materials on the stability of drugs during the storage period At present, when applying for new drugs, it is necessary to put forward the packaging form of drugs, the compatibility test report of drugs and packaging materials, the quality standard of materials, the license of material suppliers, etc Advanced drug packaging for the elderly and children's drug safety design has a safety cover; for oral liquid equipped with accurate measurement, easy to use measuring cup; in the packaging of eye-catching prompt "put the drug in the place that children can not touch" and so on All of these not only bring safety information to patients, but also have the effect of achieving consumer psychological recognition The innovation of materials and materials used in pharmaceutical packaging in China is also quite poor, and the development is relatively late For example, China's health food and drug blister packaging materials used to mainly rely on imports In the 1990s, China has been able to manufacture single color or multi-color aluminum foil printing and coating equipment Up to now, all materials used for blister packaging have been localized, and meet the needs of domestic health food and drug packaging Western medicine tablet is a health food dosage form with many kinds and large sales volume Aluminum foil blister packaging is becoming the main packaging form of Zui tablet According to expert analysis, the materials used for blister packaging include: printing coating protective layer and adhesive layer materials, known as protective agent and adhesive, and the medical aluminum foil used for bottle cap materials, referred to as PTP aluminum foil for short Blister packaging is one of the tablet packaging materials widely used and rapidly developed by pharmaceutical enterprises It is also the main packaging form of health food and drug solid dosage forms in China With the continuous improvement of China's national economic level and the transformation of people's living structure, China's pharmaceutical industry has made great achievements The United States has a population of 260 million, and its structure is aging, while China has a population of 1 billion 300 million, and the overall consumption level is not comparable to that of the United States It can be predicted that in the near future, once the Chinese market is mature, the whole pharmaceutical market will be huge and diversified, and its scale will be several times that of the United States! We are still far away from this goal, but multinational pharmaceutical companies have come to China to invest and build factories According to relevant reports, the first 25 pharmaceutical companies in the world have entered China, plus countless domestic enterprises, who are not only competing locally, but also committed to product export The entry of foreign pharmaceutical products and enterprises into China's market not only enriches China's pharmaceutical market and provides more medicines for medical and health undertakings, but also brings advanced pharmaceutical packaging concepts and standards and promotes the development of domestic pharmaceutical packaging industry Driven by the huge pharmaceutical market in China, some major domestic packaging machinery manufacturers have actively developed, developed and introduced advanced full-automatic pharmaceutical packaging machinery, such as PTP blister packaging machinery, full-automatic capsule filling machine, aluminum foil sealing machine, full-automatic cartoning machine and other automatic packaging machinery According to the evaluation of the European Pharmacopoeia Committee, pharmaceutical packaging will become the second largest economic growth point of the global packaging industry in the next few years In order to seize this opportunity, experts believe that at this stage, the development of China's pharmaceutical packaging industry should do the following: accelerate the promotion of plastic containers used in the packaging of oral liquid drugs; accelerate the development of plastic hollow container packaging of traditional Chinese medicine, more innovation and more application of new packaging materials, and use injection blow molding and other molding processes to produce plastic hollow packaging containers The mouth of the hollow container is sealed with the aluminum foil electromagnetic induction gasket to enhance the safety protection of the medicine, and to speed up the promotion and application of the plastic composite membrane bag packaging of traditional Chinese medicine It is the fundamental development road of pharmaceutical packaging in China to standardize pharmaceutical packaging by law and promote the automation level of pharmaceutical production packaging Many countries have formulated product packaging laws, especially for drug packaging and shelf life, which are directly related to human health They have formulated strict technical regulations and passed product certification by * testing center or central laboratory to ensure product quality and safety The "management of drug packaging" in the "Drug Administration Law" of China has made special provisions on the packaging of drugs The packaging materials and containers that directly contact with drugs must meet the pharmaceutical requirements, comply with the labels to protect human health and safety, and be approved by the drug regulatory department at the same time of examination and approval In order to strengthen the supervision and management of drug manufacturing enterprises and ensure the quality of drug production, China implements GMP certification system for drug production The legal norms and the establishment of quality evaluation system are the favorable preconditions to promote the development of pharmaceutical production and packaging in China However, in order to improve the overall level of drug production and packaging and enhance the value of drugs, it is necessary to speed up the formulation of drug packaging standards in China Among them, we can learn from international advanced standards to improve the level of packaging standardization in China and promote the healthy and steady development of pharmaceutical packaging in China It is the necessary way to enhance the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical packaging to a higher level to strengthen the research and development of its own and improve the level of pharmaceutical packaging equipment and packaging design in China Packaging equipment plays a leading and controlling role in packaging automation, which has an important impact on the level of drug production and the quality of drug packaging Modern packaging automation is a high-tech industry Because many packaging equipment manufacturing enterprises in China lack the necessary development funds and talents, the investment is seriously insufficient, which restricts the research and development process of pharmaceutical packaging equipment Therefore, at present, a small number of enterprises in China are "proud" of the advanced equipment imported from developed countries Therefore, in order to improve the quality and production level of drugs in China, it is necessary to strengthen the development of pharmaceutical packaging automation equipment For packaging design, pharmaceutical enterprises should widely seek the opinions of marketing and marketing departments when designing new packaging If conditions permit, they can ask advertising planning companies to do image design A kind of skin and mucous membrane antiseptic disinfectant near Zui of a company should completely abandon the consistent old design idea in the appearance design, which is rich in the sensory information of the new generation, improves the size of the outlet of the packaging bottle, and can control the amount of medicine when used without touching the fingers These scientific and technological innovations should be based on scientific research institutes and colleges and universities, combined with large-scale manufacturing industry in the industry to build a platform for technological innovation, strengthen technological research and development with independent intellectual property rights, and accelerate the upgrading and continuous innovation of pharmaceutical packaging equipment Constantly improving the level of packaging technology in China has put China's packaging industry on the road of rapid development, so as to avoid the situation of "class I products, class II packaging, class III price" in China's pharmaceutical products The development of pharmaceutical packaging industry is also inseparable from the improvement of the service system Recently, the state issued several opinions on encouraging, supporting and guiding the development of non-public economy, such as the individual and private sector, which clearly proposed to improve the service to the non-public economy According to statistics, 95% of China's packaging enterprises are non-public enterprises, and most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises For various reasons, the service system of China's packaging industry is basically blank, and the industry service is in a passive state The development of the market requires us to establish and improve the service system of entrepreneurship service, information service, training service and scientific and technological innovation service as soon as possible Through the establishment and improvement of industry service system, create a good development environment for pharmaceutical packaging enterprises, promote the improvement of management and business level of pharmaceutical packaging enterprises, and promote the sustainable, healthy, rapid and stable development of pharmaceutical packaging enterprises For the packaging of traditional Chinese medicine products, despite the development history of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has never been able to enter the international market on a large scale In addition to the outdated production process, which is difficult to be recognized by the foreign pharmaceutical industry, and some prejudice against traditional Chinese medicine in European and American countries, the failure of Chinese medicine packaging to implement international standards is also an important factor The standard of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has always been a bottleneck for TCM manufacturers to expand to overseas markets In view of this situation, pharmaceutical packaging and materials enterprises should choose appropriate packaging materials and packaging methods according to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, and develop the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine packaging, so as to better enter the European and American markets It is a consensus that pharmaceutical packaging will have a rapid development in the next few years, with good prospects and large space In the future, single dose packaging of drugs is a development trend, and a large number of foreign pharmaceutical enterprises have entered the Chinese market Chinese pharmaceutical packaging enterprises must seize this opportunity to enhance their independent R & D capabilities and improve the level of packaging materials; in the future, pharmaceutical enterprises will be oligopoly