Country: Japan

Category: Medical and Pharmaceutical

Toward a sustainable society, we have realized an environmentally friendly blister sheet named "ClearE-Sheet" that promotes contribution to carbon neutrality. In conventional blister sheet manufacturing processes, production involved forming pockets, filling them with tablets, sealing container and lid film, and then cutting the sheet to the required shape. The excess material resulting from this cutting process became waste. We have now developed our own unique film heating technology, film transport technology, and waste material collect technology, successfully minimizing the waste generated at both ends of the blister sheet.
ClearE-Sheet manufactured using this technology can contribute to carbon neutrality as it can reduce plastic waste generated in the packaging process by more than 70% while maintaining the same packaging quality as conventional blister sheet. At the same time, the amount of packaging materials used, such as plastic, can be reduced by more than 7%, which also contributes to reducing running costs.
ClearE-Sheet has a new design that visually conveys to consumers that the product is conscious of a "Clear" future environment by making a part of the sheet edge “Clear” transparent. It is compatible with conventional blister sheet and can be produced with the target existing equipment modification.
ClearE-Sheet has already been commercialized. In the product adopting it, it is expected to reduce plastic use by approximately 15 tons and CO2 emissions by approximately 67.5 tons per year compared to conventional methods. If introduced throughout the global pharmaceutical packaging industry, it will be possible to reduce the world's annual plastic waste emissions by more than 8,400 tons and CO2 emissions by more than 37,300 tons per year.
“ClearE”-Sheet is an “E”cology, “E”conomy and “E”thical blister sheet that brings a “Clear” “E”nvironment and the “Clear” “E”arth!!