Huhtamaki has introduced its new development to the market to eliminate the use of aluminum films in the production of blisters. The resulting blister is made from PET monomaterial and is fully recyclable.

The Push Tab® blister technology was developed by the company together with Klöckner Pentaplast, who provided their kpNext™ R1 rigid films for it. The blister is easy to open by pressing, has a high degree of transparency and meets all safety requirements for medical packaging. At the same time, it solves all the problems with the further disposal and recycling of traditional blister packs, because 100% PET. In addition, the technology works perfectly on existing equipment, without affecting its performance and without requiring engineering changes..

How important is this innovation? In 2021, European packaging sales in the medical category were valued at €1.4 billion, of which roughly 50% were blister packs. At the same time, the European community is increasingly striving for the complete recycling of plastics. And now, in addition to environmental motives, a possible shortage of petroleum products, as a source of plastic, is also added due to the political situation. So Huhtamaki's monoblisters hit the market just in time.

Recall that earlier the same company presented Push Tab® paper for forming blister packs. For which, in the middle of last year, it received an award from the German Packaging Institute. We wrote about this innovation here. In addition, the Finnish company specializes in the production of food packaging from smooth molded fiber, which can completely replace rigid plastics.

Used materials from the site huhtamaki.com.