NV-093 10ml vial packing plastic tray and box

This article provides a detailed explanation of the plastic tray used for 10ml vials.

The plastic trays, designed for 10ml vial packaging, are primarily used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and laboratory consumables.

It serves as a critical inner packaging component for products such as drugs, diagnostic reagents, and biological samples.

1. What is plastic tray?

The plastic tray is a molded tray with specific grooves (nests) manufactured through thermoforming or injection molding processes.

This specialized plastic tray is designed for securing, arranging, and protecting 10ml vials, and can be used for the storage and transportation of 10ml vials.

The main function of the plastic tray is：

Fixed 10ml vial product: Each groove is precisely designed to accommodate a 10ml vial, preventing movement and collision during transportation and handling.

Every plastic tray is custom-designed and manufactured based on the template of a 10ml vial, ensuring optimal protection for the corresponding number of 10ml vials.

Protection 10ml vials: Each groove precisely matches the diameter and height of the 10ml vial, securely clamping the vial to prevent rolling, collision, or mutual friction within the packaging box, thereby avoiding damage and label abrasion.
The 10ml vial package plastic tray can buffer shock and impact to prevent the 10ml glass bottle from breaking.

Easy to use:  The plastic tray enables small 10ml vials to be neatly arranged, facilitating manual counting and usage. It also allows customers to easily count quantities, store, and display items, thereby enhancing the product’s and brand’s professional image.

Protective products: Plastic trays provide superior protection for light-sensitive or dust-sensitive products, either as standalone units or integrated with outer packaging to deliver light-blocking and dust-proof functionalities.

2. Key characteristics of 10ml vial plastic trays

Custom size: The plastic tray diameter and depth of the groove must precisely match the external dimensions of a 10ml vial.

Accurately measure the dimensions of a 10ml vial, including the bottle body, stopper and cap, then create a customized corresponding mold.

Ensuring neither excessive tightness to making insertion or removal difficult, nor excessive looseness causing the bottle to fall out.

Material:

The following materials are some commonly used materials for making plastic trays.

PET:  PET  is the most widely used plastic tray material.  PET 10ml vial trays are characterized by high transparency, excellent strength, and non-toxicity, while also meeting medical-grade standards.

PETG: This material is boasts exceptional transparency, outperforms PET in impact resistance, and is easy to heat-seal.

PVC (polyvinyl chloride): This material is cost-effective, but its use in high-end pharmaceutical packaging is limited due to environmental and material-related concerns.

PP (polypropylene): Frequently used in scenarios requiring high-temperature sterilization with excellent heat resistance.

Structural of plastic trays:

Packaging Quantity:

We provide matching plastic tray sizes for different 10ml vials, with options ranging from 2 to 10 and more quantities.

The exact number and dimensions of plastic trays are determined by the customer’s requirements for packaging 10ml vials and the size of the packaging box.

Color:

The most common plastic tray colors are transparent and white.

Transparent plastic trays facilitate visual inspection of the liquid contents and labels within the vials.

White plastic trays offer a more advanced appearance and can be used for brand differentiation as well as light protection requirements.

Edge design:

Plastic trays come in various designs, typically featuring flanges or reinforcing ribs to enhance structural strength and visual appeal.

Bottom design:

The plastic trays feature anti-slip textures or protrusions to prevent it from slipping on the conveyor belt; sometimes perforations are included to facilitate medium flow during cleaning or sterilization.

3. Common Packaging Forms

The packaging of 10ml vials typically follows a “nested” structure:

Level 1: 10ml vial → plastic tray;

Level 2: plastic tray → paper box;

Level 3: paper box→ placed in a corrugated paper box for transportation.

Customers can add a layer of pharmaceutical aluminum foil or a sealing film to be applied over the plastic tray, bonded to it via heat sealing to form a sealed unit, providing additional protection and anti-opening functionality.

And the plastic sealing film can also be used on the packaging paper box.

A complete 10ml vial product package typically consists of:

A 10ml vial (10ml Vial, stoppered, capped, and labeled).

Plastic tray (Inserting the 10ml vials one by one into the grooves of the plastic tray).

Paper box (Place the plastic tray containing the vials in the paper boxes ).

Instruction(Attach the instruction to the paper box).

Sealing film or aluminum foil bag (Sometimes the entire plastic tray and paper boxes are wrapped to enhance sealing).

Corrugated paper box (For product transportation)

4. Purchase or customization requirements

If you need to purchase or customize 10ml vial plastic trays, please provide the following information to us:

1. Size of your 10ml vial：diameter and height
2. Quantity: Number of vials per tray and order quantity
3. Color requirements: transparent, white

The plastic tray of a 10ml vial is far more than a simple plastic tray; it is a critical packaging component that ensures product safety, enhances production efficiency, and complies with regulatory requirements. Its design must balance precision, protective properties, material safety, and compatibility with automated production.

When ordering, clearly communicate your order requirements to our salesperson to ensure all details are suitable with your product and production requirements

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