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FPA winners are good as gold

Notable advances in sustainability, shelf impact, laser micro-perforation, and shelf life extension are all on display in the Flexible Packaging Association’s Gold Award winners.

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Medical device wallet pack shares highest award

Even if sustainability were not a dominant packaging driver, the ConforMIS Drill & Pin Kit Wallet would merit considerable recognition. Compared to a more traditional thermoform package, the new pack uses less energy to produce and transport, offers customization, and takes up minimal space. Those attributes helped the ConforMIS Drill & Pin Kit Wallet earn FPA’s Highest Achievement Award, Gold Award for Packaging Excellence, and Silver Award for Environmental and Sustainability Achievement.

ConforMIS, Inc., Burlington, MA, develops and commercializes medical devices for osteoarthritis treatment and joint damage. ConforMIS knee implants and instrumentation are designed to address all stages of osteoarthritis, the most common reason for knee replacement surgery.

The wallet pack helped earn the FPA recognition for Beacon Converters. Beacon worked on the ConforMIS project with its representative Greg Dahl of Dahl Packaging (Phone: 413/599-0465).

“The package is distinctive because sharp, multi-component orthopedic drill and pin kits are characteristically packaged in thermoformed trays,” says Alison Tyler, Beacon’s technical director. “In order to protect the sterile barrier from the sharp points and edges, each component would have its own cavity and be snapped in. The wallet pack differs from a thermoformed tray in several ways. First, it fits in the hand and allows the end user to access the components with ease. And there is no need to snap components out of cavities. The wallet is made from a thin sheet of A123, 100-percent virgin white HDPE [high-density polyethylene], yet is capable of doing the work of two thermoformed trays.”

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