SubscribePromens Medical Packaging is ready to launch the first series of limpid vials for the medical industry – made of plastics.
The bottles are made of the materials COC (Cyclo Olefine Copolymer) or COP (Cyclo Olefine Polymer), both polyolefines like Polypropylene and Polyethylene and with the same characteristics and properties, which are essential for packaging for the medical industry.
The new vials combine the advantages of two well-known products; the transparency of glass and the ultimate strength and low weight of plastics. This leaves the end-user, typically doctors or nurses, with greater safety in their daily work and an immediate opportunity of detecting particles in the bottle.
Years of research is now showing results at a time when the medical business turns to the possibilities the new products can offer. Polimoon has been working closely together with both a European and a Japanese manufacturer of raw materials.
This co-operation has, together with our many years of experience in producing primary packaging for the medical industry, given us the expertise to manufacture limpid bottles. The vials are produced in a 300 m2 spacious clean room class C (10000) by means of Injection Blow Moulding (IBM) technology.
The advantages of the vials are:
- Transparency
- Good Impact strength
- High steam barrier
- Autoclaveable
- Can be irradiated
- Low weight
- Possibility of dyeing (UV barrier)
- No washing before filling
At the moment several of Promens' customers are testing the COC/COP vials and we expect these products to become a core business in the future. Quote from Sales & Marketing Manager Per Hansen: "The market is in great demand for limpid primary packaging and we can now meet it. Very soon it will become a standard as to regulations of Ph.Eur. and therefore this is very important to Promens".
As a follow-up to the first generation of vials Promens intends to develop coex bottles of the same material, but with an oxygen barrier layer.