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Oliver Medical
445 Sixth St. N.W.
Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5298
Tel: 800/253-3893 or 616/456-7711
Fax: 616/456-5820
Web: http://www.olivermedical.com
E-mail: info@olivermedical.com
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For more than 30 years, Oliver® has been a leader in providing sterile-grade packaging materials to medical device manufacturers worldwide. Every aspect of our business is focused on superior performance and a commitment to Continuous Improvement.
We offer a complete range of medical device packaging solutions to meet virtually any requirement, regardless of device, packaging line specification, sterilization method or cost.
Our proprietary DotCoat® adhesive application process enables medical device manufacturers to achieve improved EtO sterilization, radiation stability, autoclavability, and faster set-up and run speeds.
We currently conduct business in 40 countries and serve more than 3,000 customers worldwide from our 150,000 sq. ft. ISO 9001 registered facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Oliver International, headquartered in Venray, The Netherlands, is a joint venture with Nelipak Thermoforming, the premier thermo-former in Europe. Oliver's European operation includes approximately 5,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space in a class-10,000 clean room.
For more detailed information on Oliver, visit http://www.oliverproducts.com/medical
Products:
Oliver medical device packaging solutions consist primarily of USP Class VI toxicity tested engineered adhesives, including blue-tinted adhesives that facilitate verification of coating and seal inspection.
Oliver's exclusive DotCoat® adhesive technology adds value and function to medical grade papers, Tyvek®, films, and foils used for medical device packaging.
The DotCoat® process applies 100 percent solids to selected substrates using a hot-melt gravure process that transfers adhesive to the substrate in a uniform dot pattern.
Advantages of this technology include a wider sealing window, lower sealing pressures, and improved porosity. This combination allows for a more forgiving packaging process and greater material variations, while saving on tooling maintenance. DotCoat® also creates a more reliable and consistent seal through a "caulking" effect that allows adhesive to flow into and fill uneven areas on the substrate and bottom web. It also provides more consistent peel strength when opened than materials using conventional coating methods and materials.
Product Applications:
Rollstock: Oliver's DotCoat® technology for form-fill-seal applications
Oliver offers a wide range of packaging options for medical devices such as implantables, catheters, wound care, components and instruments.
Benefits of Oliver rollstock include:
- Wide sealing window, permitting the use of lower temperatures
- Reduced set-up time and faster production runs on high-speed TFFS equipment.
- Adhesive/Tyvek® combinations create a bacterial barrier with high puncture resistance.
- Consistent peel strength, smooth adhesive transfer verifies seal integrity.
Lids: Oliver's technically advanced adhesive that seals to silicon coated trays.
Oliver's hot-melt adhesive's superior anchorage eliminates contamination risk by keeping the adhesive on the package, and off your product.
Oliver's NP 34 hot melt adhesive delivers more of what matters most:
- Superior anchorage
- Superior seal window contributes to easier validation
- Superior porosity prevents sterilizer ³creep²
- Seals to silicone PETG trays
- Suitable for cold-drop applications
Applications include implants, catheters, wound care, procedure trays, components and instruments.
Pre-formed pouches are also available for EtO, radiation, and autoclave sterilization.
O/clave® autoclavable medical packaging is appropriate for Class II autoclavable medical devices, including sterile eye solutions, prosthetics, silicone implantables, and other autoclavable products.
O/clave® consists of either uncoated paper or Tyvek® coated with a specially formulated high-melt-point adhesive using our proprietary DotCoat® process. The holt-melt adhesive withstands high temperatures and is impervious to moisture. O/clave® is also EtO, gamma and E-beam steriizable.
Oliver pharmaceutical-grade (PMP) pouches are produced in Oliver's ultra-clean manufacturing environment, utilizing processes that ensure pharmaceutical manufacturers superior package cleanliness and performance.
Color-coded pouches: Oliver's exclusive technology allows for end-use color-coding of medical devices.
Oliver's newly introduced trap printing/laminating process utilizes solvent-based inks to create vivid color pouches in a wide range of sizes.
Exceptional porosity produces optimum air/gas movement during sterilization, with faster odor dissipation and degassing for quicker shipment. Header bags are available in EVA, ULLDPE, and Nylon co-extrusion materials to meet any application.
Manufacturing Processes, Technology and Capabilities:
- Adhesive development and manufacturing: Hot-melt and water-based adhesives
- Technical expertise including application, chemical, mechanical, process and packaging engineering
- Coating or laminating: Gravure cylinder application of either hot-melt or water- based adhesives, or slot die extrusion of hot-melt adhesives for coatings and laminations
- Flexographic, offset and gravure printing: Water or solvent-based inks
- Rotary or sheet-fed die cutting: Roll stock die-cut labels or individual lids
- Adhesive zone coat lid methodology.
- Finished slitting, punching or sealing equipment for a variety of finished materials.
- Complete sheet metal fabrication and machine shop capabilities.
- Complete TIG, MIG and spot welding capabilities.
Categories this company is listed under in the Pharmaceutical/Medical Packaging Suppliers Directory:
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Bags and Pouches (173 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Films (150 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Foil (106 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Paper (73 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Tyvek coated lidding (48 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Tyvek coated rollstock (52 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Tyvek uncoated lidding (47 companies)
- Medical Packaging Supplies: Tyvek uncoated rollstock (56 companies)
- Pharmaceutical Packaging Supplies: Pouches (144 companies)
