IoPP Standard Webinar - Healthcare Packaging: Achieving Sustainability Goals, Faster Package Development, Lower Costs

IoPP Standard Webinar

Healthcare Packaging: Achieving Sustainability Goals, Faster Package Development, Lower Costs

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

 

Description

1. Packaging developed for medical device and pharmaceuticals application often is driven by the need to ensure the product will make it safely to the patient and rapid development time. For these two reasons, often the packages are not fully optimized. Based on Stress Engineering Services’ experiences and a survey of the market, the packaging often uses 30+% more material than required.

2. By adopting strategies from other industries that have a sharper focus on costs, the medical device and pharmaceuticals industry can take advantage of proven technologies and supply chains to reduce material content and cost and achieve sustainability goals without comprising patient safety.

3. Achieving sustainability targets through packaging often represents one of the lowest ways to make claims with minimal regulatory burdens.

4. These strategies can be implemented on current products and with the bonus of lower packaging costs and can be used in new designs to make claims compared to industry norms.

5. As time goes on, the industry has a whole will need to collaborate to drive toward 100% sustainable methods for packaging.

 

Presenter Rob States, Principal, Stress Engineering Services

Over 20 years of experience working in plastics and packaging. I have a BS in Plastics Engineering and an MBA. Listed as an inventor on multiple packaging patents for companies such as CHEP, BP, WD-40, and BD. Started career in corporate packaging at Procter & Gamble. During my time at P&G I served in a corporate function assisting corporate initiatives. In addition, I held the role of plastics product supply manager serving a newly acquired business.

My second job was with Newell Brands as a senior engineer in Rubbermaid Home Products. I focused on developing new processes to drive down manufacturing costs. This included upgrading the over-molding technology used for food keepers and designing and developing extrusion / continuous thermoforming equipment that reduced the capital cost requirements by two thirds to manufacture components typically manufactured in an injection molding machine.

I am now a partner in Stress Engineering Services. SES is a 300 person engineering services firm. I have worked in over 200 manufacturing facilities over the last 16 years and completed hundreds of packaging projects. As a partner, my role is to guide the business by recognizing the needs in the market and developing the appropriate services. My role revolves around four categories of services: new packaging development, equipment development, productivity projects, and failure remediation.

 

 

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