Your blister toolingalready fits this machine.
Starview built the FAB8-1218.5 APB-AA rotary blister sealer to the AA format: a fully automatic upgrade for the conventional SKUs you run today on the existing tooling. This includes paper blister capability whenever you're ready.
The FAB8-1218.5 APB-AA is built to the AA format: its 12″ × 18.5″ seal area matches your existing 8-station fixtures exactly, so seal fixtures / nesting trays, and magazine feed systems transfer as-is — no re-tooling, no fixture requalification, no production gap — while adding inline paper blister capability with modern controls.
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Built for your market.
Six industries running Starview FAB series machine lines today. Pick yours to see how yours fits.
A closer look at every station.
Automatic paper blister feed and/or conventional blister feed, card feed, rotary index, seal and finished-package unload run as one line, so each shift needs fewer hands on the machine.
The workhorse of the rotary blister industry.
Replacing an AA-format rotary usually means re-engineering a six-figure fixture library one SKU at a time — and in regulated categories, requalifying every one of them. The FAB8-1218.5 APB-AA accepts your existing 17.875″ × 19.75″ AA fixtures without modification — a 12″ × 18.5″ nominal seal area built to the format — so the library you own today, and the documentation behind it, keeps running.
It feeds, forms, and seals paper blisters inline and still runs conventional carded, trapped, club-store, full-face, and half-clamshell formats, and supports applications using foils and other heat-sealable lidstocks. Cut over SKU by SKU on the 99-recipe HMI; nothing forces a hard switch.
Eight engineering decisions that change the economics of your line.
AA-format tooling acceptance
Accepts your existing AA seal fixtures, nesting trays, plug racks, and magazines without modification.
Inline paper blister feeder
Gen 1 and Gen 2 feeding forms and seals paper blisters inline while your conventional formats keep running.
Automatic feed & unload
Blister feeder, card feeder, and finished-package unloader cut labor cost dramatically.
99-recipe HMI
The color touchscreen stores 99 recipes, so SKU-by-SKU cutover is a recipe call, not a rebuild.
Remote process access
Standard Ethernet or optional Wi-Fi gives engineering real-time line visibility — a Starview exclusive.
AC variable cam-index drive
Smooth rotary motion with the position repeatability consistent seal quality depends on.
Quick-change tooling
Multi-ply hardwood or aluminum tooling swaps fast between formats.
Industry-leading support
Design, construction, features — and the customer support to keep them running.
Paper blisters, without a second machine or a second tooling library.
Retailer plastic-reduction mandates are moving carded packaging toward paper. The optional feeder brings paper blisters to the FAB8 line — fed, formed, and sealed inline on the same AA-format fixtures — so adding paper defends the shelf placement you already hold instead of forcing a re-tool.