Country: USA

Category: Medical and Pharmaceutical

Flonase Allergy Relief Nasal Spray’s new outer packaging is made of a printed PharmaLock™ Easy Seal+ paperboard lid that is heat sealed to PaperFoam® tray.
Sustainable: PaperFoam is an eco-friendly, compostable, and biobased packaging material made from FSC-certified forests. Along with the lid, this package is 100% paper recyclable. This design replaces the former Flonase PET-G thermoformed clamshell package, which was not recyclable, avoiding over 169.2 metric tons of single-use plastic waste!
Flexibility: The PaperFoam tray can accommodate one or two Flonase nasal spray bottles. One design gives the packaging site the ability for one component to be inventoried and used over multiple SKUs.
Easier to Open: The previous plastic clamshell design required scissors to open. In this intuitive design, the lid may be manually peeled back, without the use of any sharp implements.
Fewer Parts: There are fewer components compared to the previous design. The front lid UPC code is printed on the underside of the paperboard lid and is clearly visible within the notch located in the upper portion of the flange. An extended content label (ECL) is applied to the bottom of the PaperFoam tray to include the necessary drug facts that are required for OTC products, making this information accessible on shelf, without opening the package.
Robust: The package has proven integrity and protection of glass bottles, as it passed rigorous ISTA 6 SIOC (Ships In Own Container) simulation testing for Amazon distribution.
Minimized Capital Spend: The process utilizes retrofitted existing packaging equipment, which saves both capital costs and prevents old machinery from being sent to the landfill.
Operational Efficiency: The semi-automated assembly process has an equivalent operational efficiency as its predecessor.
Teamwork: The new Flonase Allergy Relief Nasal Spray secondary package design is the result of a collaboration of the packaging suppliers, design, engineering, marketing and supply chain to create a package that both looks and feels good.