Packaging

Your Agile, Expert Pharma Packaging Partner

As one of Europe’s largest and most experienced contract packagers, we have the expertise and global reach to handle projects of any size and complexity. Offering a full range of agile packaging solutions, from primary packaging of oral doses, liquids, powders and biotechnology products to secondary packaging and kitting.

We take the time to thoroughly understand your specific product requirements, including stability needs, material options, and delivery methods. Our flexible operations allow us to nimbly manage different batch sizes, execute rapid changeovers, and perform late-stage customisation to meet your exact specifications. Whether you need small-scale clinical trial supplies or ongoing high-volume commercial production, we scale to meet your program needs.

With Wasdell as your packaging partner, you can focus on your core business with confidence, knowing your products are in expert hands. We look forward to delivering responsive, reliable solutions for your next project.

At Wasdell, blister packaging is a key area of our expertise. We can assist with all aspects of designing and producing custom blister packs tailored to your product’s exact needs. From designing the optimal cavity size, shape and layout, we’ll help select the ideal material to provide the right level of durability, clarity and puncture resistance, whether it’s PVC, PVDC, PETG or another specialised film.

Our state-of-the-art tooling and thermoforming equipment can handle any blister configuration, from simple single-cavity blisters to complex multi-unit or high-density designs. We’ll also determine the perfect paperboard stock for the backing card in terms of thickness, grade and special coatings to enable easy release yet strong seals.

For pharmaceutical or high-value products, we can incorporate tamper-evident features and print unique codes on each blister for serialisation and traceability.

Our comprehensive pharmaceutical blister packaging service, include:

  • Custom tooling and design service
  • 100% real-time inspection of every packaged unit with State-of-the-art colour camera detection systems, in-line check weighing and print registration, metal detection, pharma code reading, vacuum testing and blister stress point testing
  • Packaging under humidity-controlled conditions
  • Nitrogen purging
  • Child Resistant Senior Friendly (CRSF)
  • Re-working to remove/replace components and literature, over-labelling, de-labelling and inspections
  • Carton printing, coding and track and trace with EU FMD and DSCSA serialisation
  • 2D data matrix printing


Using Noack 760, 623 and 920 blistering machines, and with tooling design and production available in-house, we can meet all your needs quickly and efficiently – designing, modifying and manufacturing new blister packing formats.

Here at Wasdell, we understand the importance of high-quality, reliable containers for your products. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range of container solutions to meet your specific needs. Whether you require bottles, pouches, blister packs, cartons, sachets, or any other type of container, we have the expertise and capabilities to deliver.

We stock an extensive variety of containers in various materials, sizes, and shapes, and can provide matching closures to ensure a perfect fit. Our hi-tech filling equipment allows us to accurately count and fill your containers with solid, liquid, or powder products, ensuring precise and consistent results every time.

With our commitment to quality, attention to detail, and customer-centric approach, you can trust us to provide the ideal container solution for your business.

Our container filling services include:

  • Tablets, capsules, powders and liquids filled into different container sizes and shapes, including direct-to-consumer packs.
  • Solid dosage or liquid products, we can fill a wide variety of containers with any amount of liquid, oil, gel or paste – from 5ml to 5,000ml. We have experience in filling pipettes, bottles and pots and have the capacity to accommodate any volume that may be required. Our latest liquid filling equipment also assists in keeping wastage to an absolute minimum.
  • Powders can be filled into an extensive variety of containers from 1g to 5,000g per unit. Using our state-of-the-art machinery, we can dispense huge volumes quickly and efficiently. The methods we adopt are ideal for packing such items as protein powders, food supplements and additives.
  • Wraparound, single, double, overhead labelling and label leaflets.
  • Quality-assured induction seal, automated torque-controlled capping and in-line weight checking.
  • Fully and semi-automated filling machines with in-line label application, cartoning and patient information leaflet insertion.
  • Ambient packaging and vial labelling (2-8 degrees) packaging.


We are experienced in working with mail-order suppliers, from start-up companies to market leaders. We have developed expertise in the filling of postal-friendly containers and can offer a range of creative solutions.

Our versatile high-speed filling means that large volumes can be dealt with quickly and efficiently.

Our production processes enable us to provide strip packs in a variety of materials which can be filled with tablets or capsules. These can then be formatted into daily, weekly or monthly dosages.

Our strip pack services include:

  • Formed and filled with a range of solid dosage products or liquids
  • Convenient daily packs with up to six different solid dose products
  • Weekly or monthly retail cartons
  • Rapid bulk production
  • A variety of materials can be used including Alu-Alu (cold form), paperback foil and PET foil
  • Assembling presentation units including point-of-sale displays, drop feed units, shelf-ready packs and clip strips


Individual packs can be designed and printed in a range of colours to reinforce your branding, as well as displaying all required regulatory and product information and variable data.

Our modern and adaptable machinery enables us to produce significant quantities of strip packs quickly. We can provide strip packs in single or double-strip formats with perforations to help open the product without damaging the strip.

Our sachet packs can be filled with up to six different dosage forms including tablets, capsules, powders or liquids.

Overview of Sachet Filling services include:

  • Formed and filled across a range of dosage forms including tablets capsules, powders or liquids
  • Convenient daily packs with up to six different solid dose products
  • Weekly or monthly sachet retail cartons
  • Rapid bulk production
  • Variety of materials can be used including aluminium foil, paper backed foil and PET foil.


Individual packs can be designed and printed in a range of colours to reinforce branding, as well as displaying all required regulatory and product information and variable data.

We use the latest machines to manufacture and fill sachets on-line, increasing our clients’ speed to market.

Our late-stage customisation packaging involves only finalising product packaging for distribution when there is a specific market demand or patient need.  This gives commercial pharmaceutical and clinical trial supply manufacturers a way of creating efficiency by reducing inventory costs, avoiding repackaging work and preventing waste.

We provide a full range of late-stage packaging and distribution services to meet the needs of clinical trial sponsors and pharmaceutical manufacturers throughout Europe, including:

  • Ability to accommodate all clinical trial requirements – open and double-blinded studies
  • Multi-language label design including all European languages, Russian and Chinese
  • Worldwide shipment, storage and distribution capacity for investigational medicinal products (IMPs).


Wasdell’s late-stage service is particularly useful for managing small-volume requirements and the fluctuations in demand that often occur throughout a clinical trial. It also helps pharmaceutical companies and clinical trial sponsors to supply multiple markets from a single location, an incredibly useful for products that have a short shelf life or have specific storage requirements to ensure stability. These challenges are becoming increasingly prominent for companies and sponsors as more biotech products enter the drug pipeline.

We offer flexibility and scalability through our late-stage approach which helps our customers to reduce time to market and fulfilment cycles, optimise inventory management and simplify their supply chains while reducing obsolescence.

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