We Create Packaging that Saves Lives.
We’re Customer Driven
We deliver custom products with consistent high quality, support customers with expert in-field technical support, and actively seek to improve both our products and the experience of partnering with us for your sterile packaging.
We Offer a Complete Product Line
From bags to pouches, forming films and top webs, to film and foil laminations, we have a flexible packaging format that will work for your medical device.
We Have a Secure & Resilient Global Footprint
We serve our customers from many of Printpack’s 19 North American production sites, and ship to 650 customer sites on five continents. Our ISO 13485 certified sites on both sides of North American provide supply redundancy for most products.
Let Printpack help you design (and test) a package that secures medice devices in the surgical room.
Partnering with Printpack allows you to efficiently and securely source a complete line of flexible packaging, reducing your overall number of suppliers while placing confidence in producing quality products for your brand.
We serve multiple markets and can help you apply packaging materials and designs from other markets to solve your challenge.
Printpack develops innovative healthcare packaging solutions and sustainable options that deliver a distinct advantage at the shelf, strengthen brand identity in the minds of consumers and help brand owners optimize speed-to-market strategies. Packaging innovation plays a critical role in influencing the way consumers value, choose, and use products.
Flexible forming films can be a sustainable and cost effective alternative to rigid trays in many applications.
Available in thicknesses from 3 to 24 mil, in a range of tough materials.
Whether you need a tough nylon package, or a traditional ionomer one, our material engineers have choices for you.
All of our forming films are available In ‘standard’ format: With a traditional sealing surface designed to seal to a peelable top web, and In ‘direct seal’ format, with a peelable sealing surface designed to seal to non-peelable top webs, like uncoated Tyvek™. An uncoated top web can be a significant cost savings.
Our forming films are used in other applications beyond packaging, like surgical light handle covers.
While we offer many standard products in roll form for medical packaging - including peelable, surface printable and barrier laminations – most of our laminations are custom designed for each customer.
Whether you need a peelable or tear open pouch, or use gas or radiation sterilization, we have a pouch for your application.
We offer commonly used designs, materials and pouch sizes, but can design a custom package for your device.
For a breathable pouch, we offer all Tyvek grades, plus paper options sealed to a clear polyester or nylon lamination.
If your device will be sterilized with radiation or e-beam, a Film-to-Film or Foil pouch can be a great option - available in peel open or tear open designs.
Header bags are a great choice for larger kits and contents that have an inner sterile barrier like a wrapper or back table cover. Mostly commonly used in a breathable format, our header bags are also designed in a non-breathable version for radiation sterilization.
Let our engineering team design a custom package for your application and sterilization method, recommending multiple options in materials and design.
Whether you need a tough end seal for heavy contents, or a peelable seal for lighter contents, you have choices.
Our film-to-film peel open seal design eliminates the risk of fiber tear when opening the bag.
Available in a range of sizes for small individual supplies to very large surgical kits.
In addition to header bags, we offer several unique bag designs.
• Header bag with an outer pocket, ideal for adding IFUs
• Linear tear bag, that easily tears open along the top edge
• Kwik tear bags, that easily snap open along the top edge
• Center strip bag, ideal for labware multipacks
All available in breathable and non-breathable designs and a range of materials.
All Printpack production facilities are certified to either ISO 13485 or ISO 9001.
Printpack Medical is active in many organizations that serve our market and customers, including ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials), IoPP MDPTC (Institute of Packaging Professionals Medical Device Packaging Techncial Committee) and FPA SPMC Flexible Packaging Association Sterile Packaging Manufacturer's Council). We actively seek to learn and share knowledge that makes our industry better, and supports our mission to create packaging that saves lives.
Yes, all three medical/ healthcare packaging Tyvek™ grades, 2FS, 1059B and 1073B are used by Printpack. We print our customer's graphics on Tyvek, we slit Tyvek™ to custom widths, and we use Tyvek™ in our premade packages, like peelable pouches and breathable header bags.
Yes, all Printpack Medical packaging meets the requirements of ISO 11607 and ISO 10993. Our product development engineers can share supporting documention, including physical properties of materials and pre-made packages, stability studies, and biocompatiblity test results - to support your own qualification requirements.
Printpack Medical business specifically has capabilitiy and equipment to print (flexographic, rotogravure or digital), make breathable sterilization bags, peelable pouches and forming films. We make premade packaging not just for medical devices but also for the life sciences industry. By partnering with our sister Printpack food and industrial packaging divisions, we bring cross industry expertise and creativity to healthcare packaging.
Printpack leads the packaging industry in manufacturing capabilities while delivering a best-in-class customer experience. We are committed to Preserving and Enhancing People’s Lives through sustainability, efficient processes, and providing quality products to our customers and consumers.
Our vertically integrated manufacturing approach includes flexographic, rotogravure, and digital printing, along with extrusion and adhesive lamination capabilities.
Our specialty rigid packaging includes barrier co-extrusion and thermoforming capabilities.
Our sterilizable packaging includes header bags, peelable pouches, and forming films that protect the integrity of medical devices and equipment.
We believe that the use of sustainable material for packaging is the future. We are committed to helping our customers reach their sustainability goals.
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