Nelipak talks pharma packaging

Nelipak highlights its passion for creating pharmaceutical packaging and the future of the packaging industry

What does Nelipak do?

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging is a full-service global provider of custom thermoformed packaging that provides superior protection for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. We fulfil customers’ healthcare packaging needs including: concept, design, development, prototype and production tooling, validation, and commercial product output, including AVS and sealing machines.

How would you sum up your company?

Nelipak is a strategic packaging partner that’s 100% focused on the healthcare market. We offer medical trays and blisters, surgical procedure trays, pharmaceutical handling trays, custom built sealing machines, total packaging solutions and other value added services. As well as using best-in-class manufacturing processes, we apply a combination of freehand design capabilities and technology to help our customers develop better products for end-user needs and to proactively innovate to industry trends.

Name a business achievement you are most proud of.

Our global presence means our team is highly accessible and can provide innovation and quality to our customers wherever they are located.

We have facilities in the US, the Netherlands, Ireland and Costa Rica with more than 500 employees worldwide. We are also totally focused on the healthcare market and the needs of medical and pharmaceutical customers. All Nelipak sites are equipped with clean oom capabilities and certified to ISO 13485 standards.

What excites you about this industry?

As you can guess, our passion is packaging! We are excited by new opportunities we are pioneering to bring change to all parts of the product lifecycle and how improve the way users interact with packaging.

We have a team of healthcare-focused designers and engineers who apply a combination of freehand design capabilities with technology including sketching, solid works simulation software, 3D printing to support our customers in developing packaging that offers an improved level of user experience.

The ability to proactively innovate even at the earliest stages of development by applying a thorough understanding of industry trends and end-user needs and challenges helps create optimised packaging that can better serve its purpose, reduce waste and even minimise risk factors when used in the operating room. 

What do you see happening in the industry in the next 12 months?

We’re seeing more and more pharma and medtech companies merging to deliver more targeted treatments for a range of conditions. As a result, I think we’ll continue to see an increase in drug combination devices over the next 12 months and beyond.

Which medical plastic device do you wish you had invented and why?

I wish we had invented the coronary stent. Personally, I know so many people who would not be here right now if it were not for this technology.  We take them for granted today but previous methods of treatment were invasive to the patient and required longer recovery time.