Materials that address the stringent standards required for healthcare packaging
You cannot be too careful when selecting materials for use in medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Ensuring patient safety while facilitating the ease of human care has become an increasing and complex need. That’s why Dow has been working to enhance our offerings for medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Our versatile portfolio of rigid and flexible polyethylene products helps to enable innovative structures that offer security, flexibility, safety and regulatory compliance for medical, pharmaceutical and nutritional applications.
Explore what Dow offers for medical and pharmaceutical packaging applications
We also offer materials for applications such as medical device packaging, non-invasive tubing, and more.
Dow materials offer lot-to-lot consistency and quality because of our stringent manufacturing specifications, which are well suited to address the expectations of regulated healthcare and nutritional products. If your challenge is designing for chemical resistance, organoleptic performance, gamma stability, biocompatibility or patient and staff safety, we have materials and experience that can help. We are passionate about helping our customers to reduce waste and capture value across the supply chain.
HEALTH+™ Polymers
HEALTH+™ Polymers address quality and consistency standards for medical, pharmaceutical and nutritional applications. They are specially designed and FDA-approved to help check all the boxes without worrying about every single detail along the way. Our successful, pre-approved resins help support the product development process with:
- Excellent performance and processing
- 1-year notification of change/1-year right to buy
- Drug master file (DMF) listings
- USP Class VI and/or EU Pharmacopeia
- USP <661.1>
We’re already hard at work, developing more advanced solutions for the unique challenges of medical and pharmaceutical applications. Let’s combine our efforts to keep raising the bar for innovation, efficiency, performance, safety, and security. Contact us.
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