Various packaging formats are available to meet the specific requirements of different medical devices, sterilisation methods, and user needs.
Medical device packaging plays a critical role in maintaining sterility, ensuring product integrity, and enabling safe delivery to end users. Various packaging formats are available to meet the specific requirements of different medical devices, sterilisation methods, and user needs.
Each format offers unique benefits in terms of protection, sterility maintenance, ease of use, and production efficiency. Understanding these options helps manufacturers choose the most suitable packaging solution for their medical devices.
– Typical Tray Materials: PETG, APET, HIPS, PP.
– Typical Lid Materials: Coated polyolefin non-woven materials.
Typical Applications: Large and heavy items such as orthopaedic implants or pacemakers.
– Usually paper/paper or paper/film composition.
– Good for low volume or new lines.
– Do not need specialised packaging machinery.
– Not suitable for very high volume processes.
– Can be supplied in reels, particularly for hospital use.
– Good for very high volumes of established products.
– Require specialised automatic packaging equipment.
– Not good for low volumes or multiple SKUs.
-A welded film bag with a breathable, peelable strip.
– Film: ULDPE, Metallocene PE.
– Breathable Strip: Coated non-woven polyolefin materials such , Coated, reinforced paper or uncoated versions of either.
Typical Applications: Surgical kits, Gowns and Drapes, Bulky items.
-Thermoformable base web combined with a top web on an automatic packaging machine. Requires a high capital investment and so is better suited to high volume products.
– Typical Base Web Films: PA/PE, PA/PP/PE, PP/PE, PE/COC/PE, EVA/Ionomer/EVA.
– Typical Top Webs: Uncoated medical paper, non-woven polyolefin materials, Lacquered paper.
Typical Applications: syringes, tubing, airways.
-Two flat webs are combined on an automatic packaging machine.
– Typical 4SS materials: Sized Paper, Laqcuered paper or non woven polyolefin materials, Paper PE, PET/PE.
Typical Applications: dressings (wound care), surgeon’s gloves.
