Orders placed after approval of the design are usually delivered within 10-15 business days. In case you need urgent service, it can be arranged; what’s more, we provide accurate scheduling according to your requirements.
What should be done when a tablet arrives at the pharmacy with a damaged seal? Patient safety and regulatory compliance are jeopardized by compromised pharmaceutical packaging. Every dose is tested and tamper-evident, ensuring you can always have confidence in the packaging.
Take advantage of a free custom quote today and find out your packaging can satisfy your customers' requirements for tamper-resistance and regulatory compliance not just appearance. Our packaging engineers are available the next business day.
Pharmaceutical packaging serves three main purposes: to safeguard the stability of the drug, prevent contamination and even provide information about the dosage which is essential for a patient to use the drug safely. It is applied in three ways: primary packaging – comes into direct contact with the product; secondary packaging – e.g., cartons containing doses; tertiary packaging designed for bulk packing.
In 2026, the global pharmaceutical packaging market size will be $123.09 billion, expanding at a 6.37% CAGR until 2034. This growth is directly correlated to the increase in drug production and more stringent drug safety regulations both nationally and globally.
We base all of our layers on one thing at Vexa Packaging: nothing comes out of our facility if it doesn’t pass the same tests that will be conducted by the regulators later.
Requirements for pharma packaging that do not apply to a regular box are moisture barriers, child-resistant closures, tamper-evident seals which indicate when the box has been opened too early. However, a standard folding carton just cannot ensure that.
Each packaging design is subjected to drop, humidity and seal-integrity tests before entering the production line and once in production, the box will act the same in a warehouse as in our lab.
Stock packaging is not enough if your product is packaged in an unusual vial size, it has to be child-resistant or if the codes have to be printed at the unit level. No matter whether your dosage form is tablets, ampoules or topical tubes, custom pharmaceutical packaging is designed around your specific requirements.
We begin with the formulation sample, conduct prototype testing and only approve for full production after compliance testing. This translates to you having your custom packaging that is proven to work not just assumed.
Pharmaceutical packaging boxes can be as simple as tablet cartons or as sophisticated as secondary packaging that are designed to be fully serialized and tamper-evident for injectables and biologics. This will depend on the dosage form, storage requirements and regulatory market in which you are shipping.
We make packaging boxes in corrugated, folding carton and rigid formats. All are engineered to provide the protection your product and distribution channel need.
The counterfeiting issue in the pharmaceutical industry is a grave threat with approximately 10% of medicines sold in low and middle-income countries reported to be counterfeit. For medical packaging, the challenge is addressed head-on with a serialized barcode, holographic seals and tamper-evident packaging that will indicate obvious damage on the first use.
The anti-counterfeiting packaging market is expected to expand at a rate of 11% CAGR from $135.8 billion in 2026 to $282.4 billion by 2033. These protections are built into medical not added on as an extra expense.
When scaling pharma product packaging from a clinical trial batch to a full commercial batch, the color, seal strength and serialization must remain consistent for each unit. The slight changes that are not even a concern at 500 are causing a big problem at 500,000.
Not only at the beginning of the batch but our production line runs consistency checks throughout the batch ensuring that your product packaging is the same quality standard from carton to carton.
For the pharmaceutical packaging to be reliable, one should consider the sensitivity of the pharmaceutical and the material that can go with it. The simple moisture barrier of tablet packaging is provided by the PVC and PVDC film materials, whereas nearly 100% of the moisture is kept out by the PTFE-laminated blisters and cold-form aluminum block.
In the case of cartons, we use paperboard that is FSC certified for pharmaceutical printing, thus making sure that the batch number, dosages and warnings are legible throughout the shelf-life of the pharmaceutical.
Not all suppliers perform in-house tamper-evidence testing. Packaging is generally better than a typical vendor in the following ways for pharmaceutical packaging:
| Feature | Standard Supplier | Our Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Tamper-evidence testing | Rarely tested | Seal-integrity tested every batch |
| Serialization | Outsourced | Handled in-house |
| Turnaround | 4–6 weeks | 10–15 business days |
| Materials | PVC only | PVC, PVDC, PCTFE, cold-form foil |
| Compliance support | Limited | Dedicated regulatory documentation |
Avoiding a recall due to a seal that fails in the field means you’ll save money by using one of the pharmaceutical packaging companies that test them before shipping.
We offer pharmaceutical packaging for all types of dosage forms and delivery, such as:
No matter what you have in your product line, we match material, seal type and serialization to the regulatory market you’re shipping to.
Got a question? Take a look at our FAQs about the custom packaging process.
Orders placed after approval of the design are usually delivered within 10-15 business days. In case you need urgent service, it can be arranged; what’s more, we provide accurate scheduling according to your requirements.
Yes. Your packaging satisfies serialization requirements, as we create unit-level barcodes and QR codes in-house.
Yes. We provide caps and blister formats for both OTC and prescription products that are child-resistant to current safety standards.
Minimum quantities are dependent on the material and the complexity and we can do both clinical-batch runs and full commercial volumes. Send your desired quantity and we'll give you a quote directly.
All designs are tested for seal integrity and drop testing before approval for production giving you actual performance information and not a sample photo.