2006:  Top SPE Thermoforming Award

           

Prent Corporation recently walked home a winner at the 2006 Society of Plastic Engineer’s (SPE) annual parts competition garnering the award for “Best Critical Barrier Package” for the design of a Universal Catheter Tray for Enpath Medical.

 

“This award not only honors our talented product development team, but also our manufacturing division, who worked hand-in-hand to achieve the design and production innovations introduced in this package,” says Joseph T. Pregont, President and Chief Executive Officer of Prent Corporation, one of the world’s largest custom thermoformers of medical and precision electronics packaging.

 

Over the years Prent has earned numerous industry accolades for package design excellence including eight prestigious WorldStar awards and over 50 other industry awards.

 

The design for Enpath Medical’s Universal Catheter Tray offers the flexibility to be used for a variety of products, plus saves the company money.

 

Prent’s design challenge was to contain and protect a variety of catheters and dilators used during surgery without the use of a retainer or protective tube.  The product also needed to be highly visible and easily removed by a physician.

 

The design solution utilizes die cuts that encapsulate the product, allows for size variations, enables easy identification and facilitates unlocking of the product.

 

Undercuts secure the device handle and tubing; while five die cut fold-over flaps secure multiple sizes of catheters and dilators.

 

The package is made with recyclable .035 white high impact polystyrene with 10% modifier to provide strength and durability.

                                                           

October 26, 2006