Lex Machinery

Aerosol
Aerosol is a collection of particles dispersed in a gas. Aerosol is a commonly used term for an aerosol container, for example an aerosol can, which releases a spray when pressed.

Ampoule
A glass container filled with medication and closed with a rubber stopper

Bar Code
A way of labeling or coding a product that allows a clear description of the contents and limits dosage mistakes. Bar codes can only be read by scanners

Blister
A thermoformed plastic shape that is used in the process to make a blister pack.

Blister Pack
A unit dose package commonly constructed from a formed cavity containing one or more individual doses

Blow Moulding
A plastic-forming method widely used for the production of hollow thermoplastic shapes. The process is made up of 2 phases: extrusion blow moulding and injection blow moulding

Bottles
Glass or plastic containers used to package solid or liquid pharmaceutical products

Capsule
Solid dose medication filled into gelatin halves and pushed together

Cardboard
Cardboard is a very common packaging material made up of layers of paper pasted together to form sheets. Cardboard is often laminated to provide barrier properties.

Carton
Cartons are packaging containers, commonly made from cardboard. Cartons come in many different varieties but most cartons can be folded and assembled from a flat form, known as a carton blank.

Cartoning machines
Cartoning machines are packaging machine that form cartons: erect, close, folded, side seamed and sealed cartons.

Conveyor Belts
A belt designed to carry materials and transfer them from one place to another.

Fill and Sealing machine
This is a packaging machine that combines the functions of filling and closing in one machine.

Filling Machine
A packaging machine that measures a product from bulk by some predefined value, e.g. volume, mass, or level in a container.

Film
A film can be defined as a thin layer of material usually made of transparent plastic often used to cover or wrap things.

Form-Fill-Seal Machine
Form-fill-seal machines use heat-sealable plastic film to form a pouch, which is then filled with a product, sealed and cut.

Labelling Equipment
Labelling equipment is used to apply labels, codes, decorations and other markings to packages.

Pouch
A pouch is a bag-like container used for carrying items. a pouch can come in many forms including three side seal, centre seal, envelopes with re-sealable flaps, flexi tubes, flexi bottles and stand-up pouches. Rope handles, die punch handles, spouts, preformed handles, pilfer proof membranes, self-sticking tape and zippers can be used for sealing pouches.

Shrink Wrap
Shrink wrapping is thin, tight fitting plastic wrap used in packaging. When passed through a heat source, the film shrinks in to the shape of the wrapped product.

Thermoforming
A process of forming thermoplastic sheet by heating a sheet of plastic and transforming it in to a surface mold.

Vacuum forming
Vacuum forming is a method for thermally shaping a flat plastic sheet in to a three-dimensional shape by heating the sheet and withdrawing the air between the sheet and mold.