Thermoforming Expansions for Amcor Flexibles Address Healthcare Market Needs

Two pieces of news from one the leading healthcare packaging manufacturers reflect the growth and direction of the pharmaceutical and medical device markets.

Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor

October 16, 2024

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Amcor Flexibles at Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis 2024
Angelia Schiedemeyer (far left), Marketing Communications Manager at Amcor Flexibles, and the rest of the team at Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis 2024.Packaging Digest, Lisa Pierce

Thermoformed trays dominate in healthcare for medical devices, as well as for many pharmaceuticals (syringe trays, for example). Leading supplier Amcor Flexibles has made some recent moves to meet market needs.

At the Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis event (October 16-17), I talked with Angelia Schiedemeyer, Marketing Communications Manager at Amcor Flexibles, about:

1. Coming January 2025, and as previously reported, the Oshkosh facility will have additional capacity for thermoforming trays. The company converted a warehouse into a Class 7 cleanroom to supply a growing market for trays for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

This is a significant move because you can now source both tray and lid from the same facility. This simplifies supplier validation.

2. Launching in first quarter of 2025, Amcor Healthcare AmSecure is a new product. It’s an APET material designed to be “recycle ready,” according to guidelines of the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR). Certification from APR is yet to come, hopefully in 1Q25.

While APET still holds a small percentage of the healthcare packaging market, it better addresses the sustainability asks of customers, hence introduction of the new product.

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Schiedemeyer tells me AmSecure is suitable for trays for both the pharmaceutical and medical markets. It will also be available in rollstock for customers that want to do their own thermoforming.

Related:Amcor Expanding Thermoforming Capacity for Medical Packaging

About the Author

Lisa McTigue Pierce

Executive Editor, Packaging Digest

Lisa McTigue Pierce is Executive Editor of Packaging Digest. She’s been a packaging media journalist since 1982 and tracks emerging trends, new technologies, and best practices across a spectrum of markets for the publication’s global community. Reach her at [email protected] or 630-272-1774.

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