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Medtronic’s new TAVI system wins DuPont award

DuPont honors medical device manufacturer and Prent for Excellence in Technological Advancement and Enhanced User Experience.

STRAIGHTLINE CONFIGURATION. The EnVeo R next-generation Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) System from Medtronic is a 62-in.-long device.
STRAIGHTLINE CONFIGURATION. The EnVeo R next-generation Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) System from Medtronic is a 62-in.-long device.

What measures 68x5.5x2.6 in. and can save your life?

The answer: the EnVeo™ R next-generation Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) System from Medtronic. The product’s enhanced packaging delivers user functionality, containment, protection, preservation, and communication benefits for surgical users. The package earned a Gold Award and was honored for Excellence in Technological Advancement and Enhanced User Experience at the 2015 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation competition.

Prent Corp. thermoformed the TAVI system’s 0.040-in. thick tray and clips, using white Tritan™ PETG resin from Eastman. “Prent has a good design team that can articulate what we as a customer require,” says David Clarke, Packaging Engineering Supervisor, Medtronic Vascular Galway Ltd., in Ireland. “They are consumer-focused and use cutting-edge equipment.”

Medtronic explains that TAVI is a relatively new valve technology developed in the first part of the 21st century as a means of treating sick patients who otherwise would not receive valve replacement therapy through surgical means. The first commercial products reached the market in 2007.

Clarke explains that Medtronic involved its Packaging and Labeling, Research and Development, Quality, Marketing, and Human Factors departments in the design and development of EnVeo R. The medical device manufacturer also employed end-user input in the development process. Says Clarke, “An ethnography-based innovative tray package is integral to the device therapy.”

‘Gemba’ design approach

EnVeo R has been sold commercially in Europe (where it’s CE-marked), Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries since September 2014.

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