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Voice of customer inputs key to catheter tray and lid combination

Boston Scientific’s catheter tray and lid provide numerous benefits, including a knurling pattern of grooves in the tray.

CURVE PATTERN. The curve features aided retention of the curve in the devices during sterilization process.
CURVE PATTERN. The curve features aided retention of the curve in the devices during sterilization process.

Boston Scientific refers to itself as a leading innovator of medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world.

The Marlborough, MA-based company’s products and technologies diagnose or treat medical conditions, including heart, digestive, pulmonary, vascular, urological, women's health, and chronic pain. But it’s not just the medical products themselves that are innovative, it’s also their packaging.

Take, for example, the ACUITY Pro® lead delivery system package, designed with and supplied by Nelipak Healthcare Packaging, developers and manufacturers of custom thermoformed packaging for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.

Nelipak and Boston Scientific teams prioritized voice-of-customer inputs during tray and lid design. All together, the package combination is now used to hold 16 different catheter shapes in custom-fit cavities.

The tray utilizes innovative features including knurling surface patterns and catheter curve-containment channels to improve interface and protective properties. These designs helped Boston Scientific reduce individual package volume by 50%, while gaining a 315% palletization and sales bag load efficiency increase, and decreasing sterilization costs 50%. Material reductions yielded significant savings per saleable unit.

Package design needs

To learn more about how the tray was developed for Boston Scientific, Healthcare Packaging spoke with Nelipak’s Group Marketing Manager Sean Egan, Design Manager Chris Morgera, and Senior Account Manager Brian Flynn.

Together, Nelipak and Boston Scientific engineers identified the following key design needs for the tray/lid combination:

• Develop a single tray and lid configuration to contain one catheter and accessory set

• Design tray and lid to hold 16 different catheter shapes in custom-fit cavities

• Protect the catheter and accessories through sterilization, distribution, and storage steps

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