Double-Blister Package Sets Surgical Device Apart
Manufacturers often use packaging to differentiate consumer products vying for attention on store shelves. But can distinctive packaging also give a boost to products sold to businesses and institutions?
This was the question posed by executives at Remington Medical Inc., a supplier of cardiovascular medical devices. Remington decided to give its vascular introducer set, which is used to implant pacemakers in hearts, a new double-blister package that's easier to handle and provides more assurance that sterility will be maintained in the operating room than the original single-blister package. The Alpharetta, GA, company is the first supplier of vascular introducers to use a double-blister style.
The complete double-blister package designed by Blue Ridge Packaging includes an inner package (shown sealed) and an outer tray (with the Tyvek lid pulled back).
The new package, designed and made by Blue Ridge Packaging of Simpsonville, SC, includes inner and outer trays. The inner thermoformed tray, made of 25-mil clear vinyl Pentamed MD 557-00-16200 from Klöckner Pentaplast of America (Gordonsville, VA), includes compartments for each of the elements of the introducer set (dilator, sheath, guidewire, needle, and syringe) and is sealed with a Tyvek lid. The outside rectangular vinyl tray is also thermoformed and sealed with Tyvek. After the inner tray is sealed in the outer tray, the package is EtO-sterilized.
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