Ecobliss a WorldStar winner with child-proof packaging

Producer of blister and high visibility packaging solutions Ecobliss has received the Worldstar Award and Gold President’s Award for its packaging concept Locked4Kids during the World Star Competition in Milan. This reclosable carton box enables drug manufacturers to package their products in a child resistant manner. It is the fourth consecutive year that Ecobliss wins a World Star Award in packaging.

Ron Linssen, Managing Director of Ecobliss, said: "Receiving a World Star, an eminent international award in packaging, means global recognition for Locked4Kids. And winning the President's Gold Award even more shows that our innovative packaging concept is considered the best of the best in packaging.

"Locked4Kids is designed with just one objective in mind: protecting small children from accidental poisoning. We hope that Locked4Kids becomes the new standard for packaging drugs and other products that are potentially dangerous for small children.”

WorldStars are presented only to those packages that have already won recognition in a national competition. Ecobliss received silver in De Gouden Noot 2014 Packaging Innovation Contest and the CPhI Pharma Award 2014 in the category Innovation in Packaging.

In Europe and America, the vast majority of all drugs are put on the market in carton boxes containing blister strips. There is a substantial chance that, in an unguarded moment, small children might open such a box and swallow its contents. In Europe alone, 3,000 young children die each year from the consequences of drug poisoning or poisoning due to the ingestion of household chemicals.

Ecobliss claims to be the first to have developed a simple, inexpensive and mass-producible carton box satisfying all stringent requirements that are imposed for child resistant packaging. Locked4Kids meets the strict European (EN 8317) and American (UN16 CRF 1700.20) standards for reclosable child resistant packaging.

The Locked4Kids packaging is composed of a carton box containing a PET tray. The box has openings on the sides in which the blister tray is automatically locked when it is pushed all the way into the box. For this, hooks are attached to the edge of the blister tray. In order to be able to open the packaging, both hooks have to be pushed simultaneously and held. Only then the tray can be pulled out of the box. This is very difficult for small children. The hooks are placed diagonally to one another at a distance that cannot be spanned by the hand of a small child but is no problem for adults. The carton box is coated with a tear resistant laminate so as to prevent children from ripping it apart.