- SmartWallet can be produced on a modified blister line, no wallet packer is required
- A combined packaging line for wallets and folding boxes is available
- New technology opens the road to a broader use of wallets in pharma packaging

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

This is ideal for a dual strategy of production allowing better utilization of the line, particularly if only a smaller part of the production volume is in a wallet.

Contact for reader inquiries:
Helmut Deichert
Product Management
Bosch Packaging Technology
Product Division Pharma

Bosch Packaging Technology
Product Division Pharma
P.O. Box 1127
D-71301 Waiblingen
Tel: +49 711 811 57220
Fax: +49 711 811 57442
Email: helmut.deichert@boschpackaging.com
Internet: www.bosch.com/pa/SmartWallet

Contact for press inquiries:
Patrick Farinato
Manager Communication
Bosch Packaging Technology Division

Bosch Packaging Technology
Sigpack International AG
Rheinstrasse 36
CH-8212 Neuhausen am Rf.
Tel: +41 52 674-6228
Fax:  +41 52 674-6350
Email: patrick.farinato@sigpack.com
Internet: www.bosch.com/pa

The Bosch Group is a leading global manufacturer of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology. In fiscal 2005, some 250,000 associates generated sales of 42 billion euros. Set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as ``Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering,`` the Bosch Group today comprises a manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service network of some 270 subsidiaries and more than 12,000 service centers in over 140 countries.

The special ownership structure of the Bosch Group guarantees its financial ndependence
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