According to the latest report released by the Friedonia Group, the market demand for glass bottles will continue to decline because plastic bottles and blister packs are replacing glass bottles in oral drug packaging applications. The commercial research company added that the overall demand for pharmaceutical packaging products in the United States has risen at an annual rate of 4.9%, and the market value will reach 22.1 billion U.S. dollars by 2018.
The primary drug packaging will account for two-thirds of the total demand, and the other one-third will be bottle caps, secondary packaging, labels, and other packaging accessories. "Whether it is a gain or a unit demand, the growth rate of injectable drug packaging will be the fastest, with pre-filled syringes, vials, and pre-mixed intravenous injection systems as the mainstays, because of new technologies based on biotechnology and other advanced life science technologies. Intravenous injections and infusion therapies have been introduced into the medical field," said Bill Martineau, an analyst at the Group of Fredonia, in a statement issued by the company. "The market demand for such packaging will exceed blister packs. In 2018 Injectable drug packaging accounted for the second largest market share in major drug packaging.†For oral prescription drug batch and dose packaging and non-prescription drug solid drug packaging, plastic bottle will still be used in large quantities and continue to be the main demand Drug packaging.
In solid oral medication packaging applications, blister packaging will remain the largest "competitor" of plastic medicine bottles. The advantages of this form of packaging are: expandable label content, high visibility, built-in medication tracking and tracking, and great suitability for single-dose and clinical trial dosing, with demand growth rates above average.
In contrast, the growth rate of market demand for medicine bags will be lower than the average because the use of single-dose packages for transdermal delivery, powders, and topical drugs is still limited.
In pharmaceutical packaging accessories, revenue growth will remain the highest among the closures, drug barriers for injections, safety instruction tags, and various smart components.
Blister packs are a method of wrapping a product between a blister formed by a transparent plastic sheet and a base plate (made of cardboard, a plastic film or sheet, aluminum foil or their composite material).