Plastic Materials Provide Several Advantages To The Producer And User Of Large Volume Parenterals

First delivery of bottelpack® machines for large volume parenteral (LVP) manufacturing dates back to the end of the sixties. Demand for such products increased during the last decades. At a time when the filling of glass bottles was still standard procedure, pharmaceutical manufacturers began to recognize the important advantages offered by bottelpack® Blow-Fill-Seal technology.

Plastic materials provide several advantages to the producer and user of large volume parenterals. There are plastic materials available according to the FDA which are inert, do not contain additives, have low water vapour permeability and are easy and safe to handle in the hospitals. The packages are environmentally friendly and disposal or recycling is achieved without any pollution risks. The bottelpack® technology makes production with such pure materials possible. No additional active additives are required.

Today packaging designs are so far advanced as to allow low wall thickness containers excellent collapsibility and thus eliminate the need for an air vent. rommelag®'s bottelpack® machines are also increasingly used in countries where the health care industry is being developed in order to serve their population with high quality products. Within the past 40 years, hundreds of bottelpack® machines for large volume parenteral production have been delivered all over the world.