YouTube Podcast: Benefits of Torque-Free Pill Bottle ClosureYouTube Podcast: Benefits of Torque-Free Pill Bottle Closure

SnapSlide CEO Rocky Batzel’s invention allows easy one-handed opening.

Kassandra Kania, Freelance Writer

July 15, 2024

In this podcast, Dr. Joe Casciani, host of the Living to 100 Club, and Rocky Batzel, CEO of SnapSlide, discuss the mounting medical accessibility issues for people with limited dexterity and how the closures, detailed in a May Packaging Digest article, can provide relief.

Batzel’s invention was spurred by his grandmother’s struggles to open her pill bottles and the realization that child-resistant closures hadn’t evolved much in more than half a century: The age-old push-and-turn mechanism requires two hands, force, and manual dexterity. In contrast, SnapSlide’s linear mechanism allows for opening and closing with one hand.

Batzel touches on SnapSlide’s plastic savings (no torque means no threads) and appeals to the packaging industry not to lose sight of consumers’ needs. He concludes by asking listeners to “start making some noise” and advocate for SnapSlide in pharmacies. 

About the Author

Kassandra Kania

Freelance Writer

Kassandra Kania is a freelance writer based in Charlotte, NC. She has written extensively about healthcare packaging for a variety of publications.

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