Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics

The packaging of personal care products should reflect the products themselves – hygienic, safe and long-lasting. To successfully wrap cosmetics, healthcare and personal care products, businesses require a high-quality wrapping solution able to keep up with high customer demands and tight deadlines. Our wide range of presentation packaging machines, including L-sealers and side sealers, are perfect for the personal care sector, delivering speed, reliability and flexibility, as well as aesthetically pleasing packs. Furthermore, a fast-growing trend in these industries is packaging sustainability, as many beauty brands look to protect nature while they harness its wellbeing properties. With our collection of 100% recyclable materials, many of which can also be supplied with recycled content, we're perfectly positioned to transition personal care brands to sustainable alternatives.

Why choose YPS for pharmaceutical & cosmetics wrapping applications?

Sustainability: Customers who care about the health of our environment can enjoy our range of 100% recyclable polyolefin and polythene shrink films, many of which are now available with a minimum of 30% recycled content. With OPRL approval, packs can display clear recycling guidance to consumers. Meanwhile our Servo X side sealers, also lauded for their sustainability credentials, have been shown to mimimise film waste in production by as much as 35%.
display and transit packaging: If you're packing individual beauty or healthcare items, its likely that the appearance of packs is top of your agenda. Our polyolefin shrink films can help you create wrinkle-free, glossy, high-shine packs when using our L sealing and side sealing equipment. Alternatively, when personal care products are required in multipacks or must be protected in the distribution channel, we can supply robust heavy-duty polythene films and a range of sleeve sealing machines to ensure total pack security.
Tamper evidence: Medicinal products fall under strict regulations when it comes to packaging, but YPS wont let you down. Manufacturers who sell medical products must demonstrate compliance with the Falsified Medicine Directive, which rules that products must not be tampered with. A layer of intact shrink film is an easy, cost-effective way of reassuring customers that their medicinal products have not been falsified.
BAMA Aerosol compliance: YPS have many years of expertise in the packing of aerosols. These highly pressurised, flammable products must be handled carefully in a production environment to avoid serious health and safety risks. We can upgrade our sleeve sealing range to incorporate a full suite of aerosol safety features, including CO2 flooding, flame detectors, pack counters and temperature overload circuitry to ensure your set-up is 100% BAMA compliant.
Bags with antimicrobial properties: Many individual packs of medicines and pharmaceuticals can be successfully packed with a vertical auto bagging unit. For these applications, we would also recommend the use of a gamma-patient poly bag, which are ideal for syringes, implants, surgical gloves. Their antimicrobial properties maintain complete sterility and prevent contamination during transit.
Back-up and support: We know that reliability is important to personal care businesses. Our award-winning back-up and support service is on hand to help with any questions or issues you may have. In 95% of cases, a dedicated engineer can be with you within 24 hours.

John Spooner, JRI Orthopaedics

“Thank you for all of your help with our recent purchase of a fully automatic L sealer to shrink wrap our boxes containing orthopaedic implants. The machinery has meant that we are able to increase our production compared to previously hand applying individual sleeves.”

presentation packaging

when appearance matters

Clean, glossy and beautiful. Cosmetics, skin care and hair care products in particular must embody a wholesome, impressive look and feel in their packaging for a competitive edge, and consumers expect nothing less than perfection. Here's where our high-shine, high transparency shrink films come into their own, making the most of their high shrinkage capacity to create that all-important polished finish. With discreet, tidy seals and a wrinkle-free effect, our presentation films are ideally placed to let your products shine in the retail environment. Our ultra-thin films are particularly impressive. With thicknesses as low as 9mu, they have the same high performance and aesthetic qualities as our traditional films, but use less overall plastic to achieve the same coverage. In this way they can satisfy greener goals whilst remaining a great choice for the protection of personal care products.

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David Ditchfield, Faith In Nature

"The installation went extremely smoothly and we are now reaping the benefits."

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Designed to wrap larger and longer packs, single packs and collations in trays at faster speeds. Simplicity is key with no change parts required between batches.

Speeds of up to 600 cycles per hour

Height adjustable sealing jaw for faster production

Pack clamps for unstable products running at speed

No change parts required

Optional kissing conveyor for small packs

Inline Automatic Sleeve Sealer

Ideal for low production or low volume wrapping requirements at slower speeds or when using trayless or unstable products where flexibility is key.

Ideal for unstable packs

Available as monoblock units or separate sealer and tunnel

Product packs with or without bullseyes

Ease of operation

Heavy duty sealing jaw for consistently strong seals

Semi Automatic Sleeve Sealer

A premium flighted bar sleeve wrapping solution dedicated to high-speed applications, achieving up to 160 wrapped packs per minute.

Up to 160 packs per minute

Sealing without jaws for low maintenance

Ideal for printed films with automatic centering system

Compact and modular footprint

Ideal for collations or single packs

High-Speed Flight Bar Sleeve Sealer

The side feed sealer can collate single packs into a variety of trayless or trayed multipacks and creates almost unlimited collations in polythene films.

Wraps trayed and trayless packs

Creates multiple collations

Fast changeovers between packs

Simple controls

Optional full BAMA compliance for aerosols

Side Feed Automatic Sleeve Sealer

Designed to provide faster speeds without the use of operators, our fully automatic L sealers are easy to use and extremely reliable.

Speeds of up to 30 packs per minute

No need for an operator

Available in mild and stainless steel

Optional kissing conveyor for small packs

Height adjustable sealing head for perfect seal alignment

Automatic L Sealer

This all in one unit is easy to use, durable and has a small footprint. Delivers excellent results on all polyolefin shrink films for presentation packaging.

Creates a perfect finish for presentation applications

Height adjustable packing table

Requires an operator for pack loading

Complete ease of operation

Available in mild and stainless steel

L Sealer Combination Unit

Max Costantini, Hallam Beauty

“We had no hesitation in purchasing a second and third unit from YPS. Our packing costs have decreased and efficiencies are far greater than before - as well as happier customers!”

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Looking for bespoke polybags to pack specialist products or withstand harsh environments? YPS can cater for any bespoke requirement including anti-static ESD, VCI, non-scratch and gamma-patient bags.

A range of bags designed to solve specialist needs

Protect your high value items like electronics, jewellery and metals

Suitable for press printing and thermal transfer printing

Available in thicknesses between 25mu and 150mu

Can withstand a range of harsh environments and temperatures

Bespoke Application Poly Bags

Fully recyclable shrink material for just about any transit packing application in single wound and centre folded variations.

Robust, durable shrink film for transit applications

Thicknesses between 30-150 micron

Fully recyclable with the option of 30%+ recycled content

Printing possibilities for enhanced branding

Available in clear or coloured

Polythene Transit

An innovative range of ultra-thin shrink films offering all the qualities of their traditional counterparts but with less volumes of plastic wrap, ideal for environmentally friendly applications.

Available with recycled content

Ultra-thin microns for reduced film consumption

High-performance shrink films to rival our standard thickness films

100% recyclable

Outstanding optics for incredible aesthetics

BTT Ultra-Thin Technology

A shrink material suited to a wide range of applications, offering high shrinkage performance, great optics and outstanding machinability.

Low temperature properties for an energy-efficient operation

Enhanced performance and productivity with outstanding yield

Up to 20% higher shrink capacity than competitor films

100% recyclable and also available with recycled content

Exceptional clarity and gloss

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Success Stories

PERSONAL CARE CASE STUDIES

02.01.17

Shrink Wrapping Success For Faith In Nature

Two bespoke sleeve sealing lines have allowed the leading beauty firm to package an array of products, whilst eliminating unnecessary secondary packaging.