Special folding carton

We engineer tailored, regulatory-compliant secondary packaging solutions to solve your specific challenges, whether that’s clinical trials or high-volume production.

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Customized packaging for complex needs

Our developers create individual packaging designs that protect sensitive products and streamline your production. Whether for clinical studies or commercial launches, we ensure functional, sustainable, and compliant results.

Benefits

Tailored to your needs

We combine material science with machine engineering to solve your complex packaging challenges.

Production-ready

Our solutions are ready to be incorporated seamlessly into your existing production process and capability.

Product protection

Our designs include specialist double-walled construction and paper partitions to prevent glass-to-glass contact for fragile vials and syringes.

Sustainability

Reduce environmental impact with plastic-free, monomaterial packaging that simplifies recycling for the end user.

Flexibility

We design packaging for specialist requirements, and for large or small batch production.

Cutting edge technology

Our sophisticated technology—including unique perforation and gluing solutions—offers tamper-evident and child-safe products.  

In numbers

Annual savings

$1M+

Sanofi saved over $1 million a year by using our carton solution and eliminating plastic trays.

Volume reduction

50%

A 50% reduction in pack volume can cut cold-chain shipping costs and storage requirements by half.

Machine efficiency

Up to 70%

A 50% reduction in pack volume can cut cold-chain shipping costs and storage requirements by half.

Sustainability

100%

Our monomaterial paperboard cartons are fully recyclable and eliminate the need for plastic trays.

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Capabilities

The right solutions for every requirement

The pharmaceutical industry puts high demands on cardboard packaging. At Körber, our decades of expertise in development and manufacturing enable us to create safe secondary packaging for a variety of needs. 

Clinical trials 

We can design flexible packaging in small quantities and for complex kit assembly, all without disrupting your main production lines.  

Child resistance  

Our experts develop secure packaging structures that prevent child access, while remaining ergonomic for patients. 

Tamper evidence 

We integrate tamper-evident tabs and re-closeable lids directly into the carton design to ensure product integrity. 

Fragile goods 

Our Safepack designs use shock-absorbing paper partitions to protect vials and syringes during drops or transport.  

The Körber advantage

World-leading expertise

Körber is the world’s leading maker of certified folding boxes: DIN EN ISO 9001:2015, DIN EN ISO 14001:2015 and DIN EN ISO 15378:2017 (GMP).

Enhanced efficiency

Our innovative designs streamline your production, while cutting costs in the process.

End-to-end solutions

We also offer Packaging Development and Packaging Qualification services to create and test new products.

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Get in touch

Speak to our specialists about our range of flexible, scalable, end-to-end solutions—tailored to you.