Cryovac packaging offers optimal device protection

Published: 6-Mar-2005


Cryovac, a division of Sealed Air Corporation, has designed and manufactured specialised packaging materials for a range of medical applications.

The Cryovac rigid blisters and trays are used for hip implants, cardiac electrodes and other types of invasive medical devices, ensuring maximum protection from damage and contamination until they arrive in theatre. The blisters and trays are custom designed and engineered for each type of device to provide optimal integrity. Its flexible multilayer polyolefin films are used for sterile procedure packs or other disposable products. A full range of top and bottom webs can be adapted to various sterilisation processes and offer optimal sealability and pack integrity. Barrier structures are available to maintain medical products in a controlled environment. Cryovac also showed its latest generation of films and 'connectology' components to contain and deliver terminally sterilised pharmaceutical solutions for applications such as parenteral nutrition, IV, irrigation, peritoneal and haemodialysis, antibiotics, and specialty drugs. A unique process and cleanroom manufacturing ensures product quality and cleanliness.

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