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Providing patient-safe packaging to the Health Industry

Packaging solutions for medical products and devices are key to providing safe patient treatment. There is no room for compromise on package safety and the materials used for the health industry. From disposable products to implants, getting into the joint pre-qualification of your packaging solution at an early stage is essential. MULTIVAC will advise you based on its many years of expertise. Our packaging experts support you from development to the finished package.

MULTIVAC - Flexible Packaging Solutions for Medical Products

The demands placed on the packaging of medical products such as catheters, disposable products, laboratory supplies, sutures, implants, combination packs, operating theatre supplies, and diagnostics are incredibly high. The packaging must ensure that your product is delivered sterilely to the hospital, healthcare center, or patient for the point of use. It must also be opened efficiently and reliably, without the content becoming contaminated or particles becoming loose. Another important condition is that your medical products are reliably protected during transport, and their content maintains a faultless quality, even in long-term storage.

Packaging also has a vital role to play in the approval process for medical products. Even though there is often little time for product development, it is still necessary to comply with regulations and quality standards. Only in this way does the pack guarantee the highest level of security for your medical product. Sterile barrier, seal seam quality, reproducible and traceable processes, correct labelling, and much more make it essential to consult and develop your packaging solution early on.

Our machines are designed for low-bacteria and low-particle packaging of products in cleanroom environments, and they comply with the current directives (EU, EMA, FDA, DIN, ISO).

Your benefits with MULTIVAC

MULTIVAC is your partner for success in the Healthcare Sector

Nothing is more valuable than health—no other sector places higher demands on packaging than the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.

MULTIVAC offers you the security your products need:

  • Primary packaging with a reliable sterile barrier system (SBS) against the penetration of microorganisms
  • Suitable materials, depending on the product and the particular sterilization method
  • Running of rigid and flexible films, aluminum multi-layer films, as well as materials based on paper and Tyvek®
  • Tailor-made functions such as opening aids, reliability, or fixation of the products
  • Package marking in accordance with UDI for seamless traceability
  • Reliable inspection systems for a wide range of applications, such as checking for print images, product presence, or completeness checks

Categories

Combination products

Diagnostics

Implants

Injection and infusion

Respiration and intubation

Surgical Instruments

Laboratory supplies

Disposable products

Successfully implemented packaging solutions for medical products

Success stories

Success stories in the medical products sector 

Packaging examples

Packaging examples in the area of medical products 

Infusion bags
Catheters
Disposable product
Surgical skin adhesive
Sutures
Disposable syringe
Accessories for eye chiachiachia
Tubing set
OP gloves
Test Kit
Pipette
Cannula

Our services in the area of medical products

MULTIVAC packaging solutions are built to meet your requirements and the legal requirements for reliability, efficiency, and economy. Our team of experts offers you a wide range of support services and technical assistance. Together, we develop a tailor-made packaging concept for your medical products.

Concept phase

Concept phase

MULTIVAC has been a reliable partner to its customers for over 60 years. You can feel confident that your requirements are central to our solutions.

Our engineers and process experts support you with passion and experience in developing an individual and suitable concept.

Working closely with you, an individual pack design is created from the complex product requirements, and this pack is tailored perfectly to your medical product. With 3D visualisation and sample productions, as well as ensuring that all output requirements are taken into consideration, we can develop the optimum packaging for your product.

Based on the specification document and in close collaboration, we can produce a tailored line concept for you as well as all the necessary line and format drawings. In many cases a number of possible alternative concepts will be developed and discussed in a presentation with you.

Implementation

Implementation

The team at MULTIVAC will be with you through every step of the process, including the technical implementation and fine-tuning of your packaging procedures. We support you worldwide with expertise and precision for the smooth implementation of your individual machine and line solutions.

From the initial idea to the first test run - a competent and experienced project team will be at your side during the implementation of your packaging solution, a team that will accompany you from the first evaluation to the final completion of the packaging project.

MULTIVAC offers packaging solutions in various levels of automation, from manual systems and semi-automatic machines to fully integrated packaging lines. We manufacture automation, converging and transport systems, as well as marking and quality inspection solutions ourselves, so that we can offer you end-to-end concepts for maximum productivity. We adapt flexibly to your requirements, and can support you if required in integrating components from other manufacturers into your individual line concept.

We offer comprehensive training courses for you to become familiar with the operation, servicing and care of your machine and line solutions, either in one of our worldwide Training Centers or with you on site. The coaching is practically based and carried out right at the machine, and you also receive the written training material at the end. In this way you can fully exploit the potential of your new MULTIVAC packaging solution.

MULTIVAC provides you with reliable support in process validation, calibration and documentation.

Process validation with MULTIVAC

After the current MDR (Medical Device Regulation) has entered into force, process validation has now become a statutory requirement. As a supplier of integrated packaging solutions, MULTIVAC has many years of well-founded expertise. Our team of experts offers comprehensive support in implementing current requirements.

Our package of qualification and validation services meets the GMP, GAMP 5 and ISO regulations, and this includes the following services:

  • Validation schedule

  • Risk analysis

  • Functional specification

  • Installation and Operation Qualification

  • Computer validation

We also support you in conducting qualification and validation procedures on site, and we assist you in producing special validation and retrospective validation for packaging solutions that are already installed.

Process calibration with MULTIVAC

In order to ensure the packaging process and pack quality are always reproduced, we conduct calibration procedures for the process parameters that are relevant to the particular packaging line. We record the results in a calibration protocol and make the corresponding documentation available to you for the correction of measurement deviations.

In order to comply with the requirements of the FDA CFR 21 Part 11 guideline, our IPC machine control can be equipped with the following functions for the monitoring and recording of the packaging process:

  • Personalised user administration

  • Password administration

  • Audit trail

  • Recipe change log

  • Data backup

After-sales services

After-sales services

Be assured of your success

MULTIVAC CustomCare solutions encompass a wide range of first-class after-sales products and services, which are perfectly tailored to your requirements.
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Possible types of packs for medical products

Packing in a natural atmosphere

Packages with a natural atmosphere are particularly suitable for medical products, which do not impose any requirements on a modified pack atmosphere, such as reduced residual oxygen content in the pack.  

 

  • Reliable protection of the product against mechanical stress and environmental influences

  • Protection for transport and storage

  • No modified pack atmosphere necessary

Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP)

Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) designates packaging solutions in which the natural atmosphere is replaced to protect the oxidation-sensitive product. The modified atmosphere consists generally of nitrogen, which significantly reduces the residual oxygen content in the pack.

 

  • Protection of medical products which are sensitive to oxidation

  • Setting a defined residual oxygen content

  • In-line modified atmosphere

  • Possible with all MULTIVAC packaging technologies

Packaging under vacuum

When vacuum packs are produced, the natural atmosphere is evacuated from the pack. The packaging then contracts together, settles on the product and fixes it in place.   
 
 

  • Protection of the product against slipping

  • Protection for the functionality of the product

  • Reduction of the residual oxygen quantity

  • Space optimisation for transport and storage

  • Possible with all MULTIVAC packaging technologies

Packing with skin film under vacuum

When skin packs are produced under vacuum, the special skin film read over the product like a "second skin" and fixes the film firmly to the underside of the pack. The carrier of the product is a rigid lower web or a pre-made tray.    
 
 

  • Protection of the product against slipping

  • Protection for the functionality of the product

  • Reduction of the residual oxygen quantity

  • Uniform pack dimensions (width and length) for different product types and sizes

Complementary technologies

Package Printing Applications

MULTIVAC offers flexible direct web printers, which can be used for labeling and marking packages. Marking solutions from third-party suppliers can also be integrated into the packaging machines. The direct web printing systems can be used for inline printing of serial print (text and graphic elements) and for marking with variable data (product designation, batch number, lot number, best-before date, barcodes, etc.). Almost all the current market-based marking technologies can be used in this process:

  • Thermal transfer

  • Thermal inkjet

  • Piezo inkjet

  • Laser

Labelling applications

MULTIVAC labelling systems enable labels to be applied to primary, secondary and diverse end-of-line packs in many different positions. MULTIVAC offers inline systems that are directly integrated into the packaging machine as well as offline systems, which label the packs after they have been leaving the packaging system. 

Inline labelling systems on the packaging machine are used primarily for product identification. If required, the labelling systems can be equipped with printing and inspection.  
The benefit of this version is the reduction in product and packaging waste, sincewise the packs together with the faulty labels would have to be ejected and disposed of. 

High-quality consumable materials such as labels and printing materials, which are ideally suited to the solution, are also offered by MULTIVAC.

Inspection applications

MULTIVAC offers an extensive range of products to support manufacturers in quality control. In addition to checkweighers for verification of the correct weight of the pack, visual inspection systems are also used to inspect labels, text and products.  
These range from luminescence sensors for checking label presence through to camera systems (line scan and area scan cameras), code readers for print data checking, and right up to camera inspection systems in the loading area or outfeed of the packaging machine. The individual inspection solutions can be integrated seamlessly into the packaging solution, or alternatively they can be designed as stand-alone inspection solutions with a separate transport conveyor. The common point for all the integrated solutions is the integration in the HMI of the packaging machine. 

The

following parameters can be checked with labelling inspection:

  • Character recognition (OCR)

  • Presence of the logo or pictogram via pattern recognition

  • Barcodes & 2D codes (content and legibility)

  • Seal seam inspection

A wide range of product features can be checked in product inspection:

  • presence

  • Completeness

  • position

  • Orientation

  • Colour of the individual components

End-of-line applications

If folding cartons and boxes are part of the packaging concept, MULTIVAC integrates these functions seamlessly and reliably into automated packaging lines.

Whether it is a case packer with top or side loading, a box packer with flexibly definable loading patterns, or palletising equipment - there is always a guarantee that all line modules work together perfectly, and that the product is packed, labelled reliably and securely for transport. Thanks to the space-saving and flexible configurable handling modules from MULTIVAC, as well as the cartoning systems of choice thanks to the open machine control architecture, the cartoning systems of choice are available from the manufacturer. 

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