Review of Medical Packaging Materials & Converting Processes

00:59:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRCoiaZL4Q

摘要

TLDREl seminari presentat per DuPont i Spectrum Plastics explora l'embalatge mèdic, centrant-se en Tyvek com a material clau per a la seva capacitat de barrera estèril. José i John Wolf discuteixen la història de DuPont, la importància de la seguretat en l'embalatge i les innovacions de Spectrum Plastics en la conversió de Tyvek en solucions d'embalatge personalitzades. Es presenten diversos productes, incloent pouches, bosses de capçal i tapes, així com les capacitats de fabricació de Spectrum. El seminari conclou amb una invitació a fer preguntes i a connectar-se amb els presentadors per a més informació.

心得

  • 📦 Tyvek és un material d'embalatge estèril clau.
  • 🔬 La barrera estèril és essencial per a la seguretat dels dispositius mèdics.
  • 🛠️ Spectrum Plastics ofereix solucions personalitzades d'embalatge.
  • 📈 DuPont té una llarga història en la fabricació de materials innovadors.
  • 🌍 Spectrum Plastics opera a nivell global amb múltiples instal·lacions.
  • 🧪 Tyvek és compatible amb diversos mètodes de sterilització.
  • 📏 Les bosses de capçal són ideals per a dispositius més grans.
  • 🔍 Les tapes de tall ofereixen una solució de disseny flexible.
  • 💡 La força de pelatge és important en el disseny de pouches.
  • 📞 Contacta amb nosaltres per a més informació sobre els nostres productes.

时间轴

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Jose, de DuPont Medical Packaging Group, dóna la benvinguda al seminari conjunt amb Spectrum Plastics, recordant que la presentació és protegida per drets d'autor i que es poden enviar preguntes a través del xat. Les diapositives estaran disponibles demà amb un correu electrònic de seguiment.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    John Wolf de Spectrum Plastics es presenta i destaca l'adquisició de Peel Master, prometent que els assistents aprendran sobre Tyvek i l'embalatge estèril durant la presentació.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Jose comparteix la història de DuPont, començant amb la fabricació d'explosius i la invenció de materials com el nylon, spandex, Kevlar i Nomex, i ara se centra en Tyvek com a material d'embalatge estèril.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Jose explica com Tyvek, un material respirable, pot actuar com a barrera estèril, introduint el treball de Louis Pasteur sobre la contaminació bacteriana i la importància dels camins tortuosos per a la protecció estèril.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Es presenta un estudi que demostra que els bacteris es comporten com a partícules i que Tyvek, amb la seva càrrega electrostàtica, atrapa aquestes partícules, creant una barrera estèril efectiva.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Jose discuteix les proves ASTM que demostren l'eficàcia de Tyvek com a material d'embalatge estèril, comparant-lo amb altres materials com el paper, que no ofereix la mateixa protecció.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Es detalla el procés de fabricació de Tyvek, incloent la creació de filaments i el procés de bonding que proporciona força i resistència al material, així com la seva capacitat de ser reciclable.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Jose explica les diferents generacions de Tyvek i la seva història, destacant el model 1073B com el més popular i efectiu per a aplicacions mèdiques.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Es discuteixen les especificacions tècniques de Tyvek, incloent la seva composició, la importància de no utilitzar tractaments que puguin comprometre la seva integritat, i la seva compatibilitat amb mètodes d'esterilització.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    John presenta Spectrum Plastics, la seva història i l'adquisició de Peel Master, destacant la seva capacitat de producció i la seva relació amb DuPont per a l'embalatge estèril.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:59:21

    Chris i Ben de Spectrum Plastics presenten opcions de disseny per a l'embalatge estèril de Tyvek, incloent bosses de pelar, bosses de capçal, tapes tallades i solucions de formació i segellat, amb un enfocament en la fabricació i la integritat del producte.

显示更多

思维导图

视频问答

  • Què és Tyvek?

    Tyvek és un material d'embalatge estèril fabricat per DuPont, conegut per la seva resistència i capacitat de barrera microbiana.

  • Quines són les aplicacions de Tyvek?

    Tyvek s'utilitza principalment en l'embalatge mèdic per a dispositius estèrils.

  • Quines són les propietats de Tyvek?

    Tyvek és un material respirable, resistent a la perforació i a la ruptura, i ofereix una barrera estèril.

  • Quins tipus de productes ofereix Spectrum Plastics?

    Spectrum Plastics ofereix pouches, bosses de capçal, tapes de tall i solucions de formació i segellat.

  • Quina és la història de DuPont?

    DuPont va ser fundada al segle XIX i inicialment es va centrar en la fabricació d'explosius abans de passar a la ciència dels polímers.

  • Quins són els mètodes de sterilització compatibles amb Tyvek?

    Tyvek és compatible amb diversos mètodes de sterilització, incloent vapor, gamma i e-beam.

  • Quina és la importància de la barrera estèril?

    La barrera estèril és crucial per evitar la contaminació de dispositius mèdics i garantir la seva seguretat.

  • Quins són els avantatges de les bosses de capçal de Spectrum?

    Les bosses de capçal de Spectrum ofereixen una solució personalitzada amb una força de pelatge controlada i són compatibles amb diversos mètodes de sterilització.

  • Quina és la diferència entre tapes de tall i tapes de tall?

    Les tapes de tall són peces de Tyvek que s'adapten a contenidors preformats, mentre que les tapes de tall són quadrades amb cantonades de 90 graus.

  • Quines són les capacitats de conversió de Spectrum Plastics?

    Spectrum Plastics ofereix solucions personalitzades per a l'embalatge mèdic, incloent disseny i fabricació de pouches i bosses.

查看更多视频摘要

即时访问由人工智能支持的免费 YouTube 视频摘要！
字幕
en
自动滚动:
  • 00:00:00
    hello everyone this is uh jose with uh
  • 00:00:03
    dupont medical packaging group and uh
  • 00:00:06
    welcome to our seminar here that we are
  • 00:00:08
    doing today jointly with
  • 00:00:11
    spectrum plastic so um just a few
  • 00:00:14
    housekeeping things before we get
  • 00:00:15
    started here
  • 00:00:17
    and to allow a little more time to let
  • 00:00:19
    people to join in
  • 00:00:20
    so uh first this presentation and the
  • 00:00:24
    materials that you're about to
  • 00:00:25
    hear and listen are copyrighted by
  • 00:00:28
    dupont medical
  • 00:00:28
    and pharmaceutical packaging as well as
  • 00:00:30
    spectrum
  • 00:00:32
    so the individual speakers are solely
  • 00:00:34
    responsible for their content and
  • 00:00:35
    opinions
  • 00:00:36
    and we're going to have the slides
  • 00:00:37
    available for you uh
  • 00:00:39
    tomorrow where we'll send you a thank
  • 00:00:41
    you email and in that email you'll get
  • 00:00:44
    copies of the presentation and also a
  • 00:00:47
    survey so we ask you to please fill out
  • 00:00:48
    the survey
  • 00:00:50
    so that way uh we can hear from you and
  • 00:00:53
    please let us know how we did today and
  • 00:00:55
    then secondly uh if you're experiencing
  • 00:00:58
    any trouble and hearing the presentation
  • 00:01:00
    or anything along
  • 00:01:01
    those lines just just log out disconnect
  • 00:01:03
    everything and then log back in we found
  • 00:01:05
    that uh
  • 00:01:06
    that has solved most issues when you
  • 00:01:09
    turn things off and turn them back on so
  • 00:01:12
    if you do experience any problems just
  • 00:01:14
    feel free to go ahead and do that and
  • 00:01:15
    just jump back in
  • 00:01:16
    and then the last part also is that
  • 00:01:19
    regarding questions
  • 00:01:21
    so there is a chat feature in the box
  • 00:01:23
    there
  • 00:01:24
    that you see that came up and go ahead
  • 00:01:26
    and write in questions
  • 00:01:28
    now if i can take the questions during
  • 00:01:30
    the presentation
  • 00:01:32
    i'm going to go ahead and answer that uh
  • 00:01:33
    michael uh uh
  • 00:01:35
    our uh will be one of our folks who's
  • 00:01:38
    helping us behind the scenes here and he
  • 00:01:40
    may jump in and say hey jose we have a
  • 00:01:42
    question here there so if you hear
  • 00:01:43
    someone's voice you'll know why
  • 00:01:45
    but we'll try to take questions the
  • 00:01:47
    questions that we do not take
  • 00:01:50
    we're going to get the answers to them
  • 00:01:52
    and get them back to you so we'll send
  • 00:01:54
    that out
  • 00:01:54
    in an email or in some other form or
  • 00:01:56
    maybe we'll have another seminar
  • 00:01:58
    to just address the questions and we'll
  • 00:02:00
    try to leave a little time here at the
  • 00:02:01
    end
  • 00:02:02
    to to also talk about this all right so
  • 00:02:05
    um with that keeping a stuff uh
  • 00:02:08
    off to the side i'd actually right now
  • 00:02:11
    like to
  • 00:02:11
    welcome or bring on uh john wolf from uh
  • 00:02:15
    spectrum plastics john you want to say a
  • 00:02:17
    few words to the group
  • 00:02:18
    sure thanks jose i'm really pleased to
  • 00:02:21
    be here
  • 00:02:22
    this is our first opportunity to get to
  • 00:02:25
    present together since
  • 00:02:26
    spectrum plastics had acquired the peel
  • 00:02:29
    master sterile packaging business
  • 00:02:31
    so this was a great kick off and it also
  • 00:02:34
    gives me the chance to do something i
  • 00:02:36
    never do
  • 00:02:37
    i did see your disclaimer so you know
  • 00:02:39
    this will be all on me
  • 00:02:41
    but i can offer everyone here a 100
  • 00:02:45
    guarantee that in this next hour and a
  • 00:02:47
    half
  • 00:02:48
    you're gonna learn some new things about
  • 00:02:50
    tyvek and sterile packaging because
  • 00:02:52
    i know that that i have so really
  • 00:02:55
    looking forward to getting to share
  • 00:02:56
    more about that and about spectrum and
  • 00:02:59
    our films division so thanks again jose
  • 00:03:01
    for
  • 00:03:02
    hosting and putting it together for us
  • 00:03:04
    and and john
  • 00:03:05
    thank you very much and also i'd like to
  • 00:03:07
    say welcome to the dupont tyvek family
  • 00:03:10
    uh
  • 00:03:10
    you know you are the latest uh through
  • 00:03:13
    the acquisition of peel master the the
  • 00:03:15
    latest member of the team so welcome and
  • 00:03:17
    we look forward to working with you
  • 00:03:18
    and and hearing more about you here in
  • 00:03:20
    the second half of this
  • 00:03:22
    uh webinar you bet okay perfect thank
  • 00:03:25
    you john
  • 00:03:26
    so uh as you see there on your screen
  • 00:03:28
    you see the list of speakers we're going
  • 00:03:30
    to come back to these folks here a
  • 00:03:31
    little bit
  • 00:03:32
    later on and so right now we're going to
  • 00:03:34
    get into the
  • 00:03:35
    tyvek portion of this presentation so
  • 00:03:37
    some of you have seen a tyvek 101 and
  • 00:03:40
    some of you may not
  • 00:03:41
    so uh this will be a refresher for some
  • 00:03:44
    of you
  • 00:03:44
    and for others it might be some new
  • 00:03:46
    information so we're hoping
  • 00:03:47
    that you know you learn something today
  • 00:03:50
    so please feel free to ask questions if
  • 00:03:52
    you need to
  • 00:03:53
    uh if i go too fast or something else
  • 00:03:55
    just let us know
  • 00:03:57
    so um please feel free to contact us on
  • 00:04:01
    uh at medicalpackaging.dupont.com that
  • 00:04:04
    is our website so jump on there we have
  • 00:04:06
    a slew of information
  • 00:04:07
    uh please also add us to linkedin and
  • 00:04:10
    add me personally to linkedin so send me
  • 00:04:12
    an invitation and
  • 00:04:14
    you know i'll add you to uh to that so
  • 00:04:16
    you can kind of
  • 00:04:17
    stay connected with us and
  • 00:04:20
    hear any new information that's coming
  • 00:04:23
    at us
  • 00:04:24
    so let's get into the meat of the
  • 00:04:25
    presentation and into this discussion
  • 00:04:27
    and let's talk a little bit about uh
  • 00:04:28
    just
  • 00:04:28
    a little bit of history in terms of how
  • 00:04:30
    dupont started so back in the 1800s ben
  • 00:04:33
    franklin and thomas jefferson
  • 00:04:35
    they went to france and they went to the
  • 00:04:36
    dupont family and said hey come to the
  • 00:04:38
    u.s and make some gunpowder for us
  • 00:04:41
    and the dupont family said no so then
  • 00:04:43
    they said well we'll give you
  • 00:04:44
    half the state of delaware and they said
  • 00:04:46
    yes they didn't really get the house to
  • 00:04:48
    stay to delaware but they what they did
  • 00:04:49
    is they got a lot of land
  • 00:04:50
    and they came over as land developers
  • 00:04:53
    but at the time
  • 00:04:55
    an individual could go out west and get
  • 00:04:56
    10 acres for free so
  • 00:04:58
    their land development thing didn't work
  • 00:05:00
    out so well so they had to make
  • 00:05:01
    gunpowder
  • 00:05:02
    so dupont made some of the best
  • 00:05:04
    explosives anywhere in the world and
  • 00:05:06
    really that's how we started and because
  • 00:05:08
    of that we have a culture of
  • 00:05:10
    safety and we also have a a culture
  • 00:05:13
    that's really based in
  • 00:05:14
    in science and in a lot of a lot of
  • 00:05:16
    engineers work at
  • 00:05:17
    dupont and run dupont and so uh we have
  • 00:05:20
    a really long history now we were in the
  • 00:05:22
    explosives industry for a long time
  • 00:05:25
    up until the beginning of the 1900s
  • 00:05:28
    and what happened is that um we got into
  • 00:05:31
    some very
  • 00:05:32
    basic polymer science and chemistry
  • 00:05:34
    actually
  • 00:05:35
    just set up experimental station and in
  • 00:05:38
    chemistry and there was a guy by the
  • 00:05:39
    name of carruthers
  • 00:05:41
    who invented nylon and so that really
  • 00:05:44
    changed the whole
  • 00:05:45
    scope and kind of view of dupont and
  • 00:05:47
    where we would go
  • 00:05:48
    so we were the folks that started with
  • 00:05:51
    nylon
  • 00:05:52
    and then from there we invented all
  • 00:05:53
    kinds of other materials
  • 00:05:55
    so spandex for example lycra and all
  • 00:05:58
    these other materials so all the yoga
  • 00:06:00
    pants and everything you see out there
  • 00:06:01
    you have dupont to thank for that now a
  • 00:06:04
    few years back we sold that division to
  • 00:06:06
    someone else so they owned the
  • 00:06:08
    the the trade name of that and all that
  • 00:06:10
    but that originally started with dupont
  • 00:06:13
    and then uh as you can see in here you
  • 00:06:16
    can see that
  • 00:06:17
    we had uh in in in we also invented
  • 00:06:21
    uh taldar lycra kevlar nomex and those
  • 00:06:24
    materials in the sixties
  • 00:06:26
    uh teldar is a film um so if you fly
  • 00:06:29
    on a boeing airplane and the actual wall
  • 00:06:32
    that you touch
  • 00:06:33
    the film that you're actually touching
  • 00:06:35
    the surface is actually made by dupont
  • 00:06:38
    and in some planes we actually make the
  • 00:06:40
    wall right behind it
  • 00:06:41
    a honeycomb structure it's made out of
  • 00:06:43
    kevlar and nomex
  • 00:06:45
    but we do a kind of a bunch of really
  • 00:06:46
    different things that you would not be
  • 00:06:48
    aware of
  • 00:06:48
    um kevlar is used in anti-ballistic
  • 00:06:51
    applications uh
  • 00:06:52
    nomex is what the firemen wear right and
  • 00:06:56
    tyvec is what we're here to talk about
  • 00:06:57
    so we're going to talk a little bit more
  • 00:06:59
    about that and we'll kind of move on
  • 00:07:00
    from here
  • 00:07:01
    now excuse me now i'm going to switch
  • 00:07:03
    gears a little bit and we're going to
  • 00:07:05
    talk about how
  • 00:07:06
    tyvek which is a breathable material
  • 00:07:08
    right
  • 00:07:09
    how is it that a breathable material can
  • 00:07:12
    still be a sterile barrier
  • 00:07:14
    right and so we want to understand this
  • 00:07:16
    concept and in order to understand this
  • 00:07:18
    concept we kind of have to take a little
  • 00:07:19
    step back in time and we have to talk
  • 00:07:21
    about a guy by the name of louis
  • 00:07:23
    pasteur okay so louis pasteur back in
  • 00:07:26
    the 1800s right
  • 00:07:27
    during that time they didn't know about
  • 00:07:30
    bacteria and viruses they really didn't
  • 00:07:32
    understand how
  • 00:07:33
    people got sick but louis pasteur he
  • 00:07:36
    postulated and he said
  • 00:07:38
    i think there's something in the air
  • 00:07:40
    that was making people sick
  • 00:07:42
    and so he came up with this very clever
  • 00:07:44
    experiment of trying to prove that
  • 00:07:47
    so he took a flask and he put a liquid
  • 00:07:49
    inside of it right and inside of this
  • 00:07:51
    liquid
  • 00:07:52
    is um some kind of nutrient right so
  • 00:07:55
    just think of it like a chicken soup
  • 00:07:57
    right and then what he did is he put it
  • 00:07:59
    in a very specific kind of flask that
  • 00:08:01
    had a goose neck design to it so it had
  • 00:08:04
    some bends and curves
  • 00:08:06
    and he boiled both of them so in boiling
  • 00:08:08
    both of them you know that what you
  • 00:08:10
    actually do is you kill off all the
  • 00:08:11
    bacteria
  • 00:08:12
    and viruses right and today that
  • 00:08:15
    process we call it pasteurization after
  • 00:08:18
    his last name
  • 00:08:19
    and so what we're doing is getting rid
  • 00:08:20
    of that and then
  • 00:08:22
    the gooseneck provides a torturous path
  • 00:08:26
    now what happened is what he did is he
  • 00:08:28
    took one of the flask
  • 00:08:29
    and he cut the top off right and because
  • 00:08:32
    he cut the top off it was exposed to the
  • 00:08:35
    air so now the bacteria
  • 00:08:36
    could make its way into the flask and
  • 00:08:39
    contaminate
  • 00:08:40
    it hence it went bad but the other side
  • 00:08:43
    the other flask
  • 00:08:44
    that was still open to the air through
  • 00:08:46
    the tube
  • 00:08:47
    but because of the twists and turns of
  • 00:08:50
    the tube
  • 00:08:51
    the bacteria didn't make their way
  • 00:08:53
    through and so that
  • 00:08:55
    stayed sterile it stayed
  • 00:08:58
    uncontaminated right now this experiment
  • 00:09:00
    actually happened in 1893
  • 00:09:03
    and you know some of you have heard this
  • 00:09:05
    presentation right so i'm going to ask
  • 00:09:07
    the question
  • 00:09:08
    if this flask was still around today
  • 00:09:10
    would it still be sterile
  • 00:09:13
    so the question is would it still be
  • 00:09:16
    sterile and the answer is
  • 00:09:18
    yes so if you go to the pasture
  • 00:09:20
    institute in paris
  • 00:09:22
    france you will see this flask and so on
  • 00:09:24
    screen right now you're seeing a picture
  • 00:09:25
    of the actual flask
  • 00:09:27
    now the to end is capped because of
  • 00:09:30
    evaporation we don't want the liquid
  • 00:09:31
    evaporating and so it's capped now
  • 00:09:34
    but if it was still left open there is
  • 00:09:36
    nothing that would actually
  • 00:09:38
    uh change the reason why that should
  • 00:09:41
    become unsterile unless you were to blow
  • 00:09:43
    air into it those curves
  • 00:09:47
    provide a torturous path a path that
  • 00:09:50
    makes it very difficult for bacteria and
  • 00:09:53
    viruses to make their way through
  • 00:09:55
    okay so all breathable materials
  • 00:09:59
    and their ability to keep bacteria out
  • 00:10:02
    are
  • 00:10:02
    based on this torturous path and not all
  • 00:10:05
    torturous paths are the same
  • 00:10:07
    there are different you know abilities
  • 00:10:09
    of different materials to be
  • 00:10:11
    torturous okay so we'll talk a little
  • 00:10:14
    bit more
  • 00:10:14
    about that and so if you would uh with
  • 00:10:17
    the next slide there michael please
  • 00:10:21
    so let's talk a little bit about the
  • 00:10:26
    mechanism and how this works
  • 00:10:28
    there was uh there was a dr talentire
  • 00:10:31
    in uh in england and he did this study
  • 00:10:35
    and what he proposed or what he what he
  • 00:10:37
    actually proved i should say
  • 00:10:39
    first he proposed and he proved is that
  • 00:10:41
    bacteria and viruses
  • 00:10:43
    behave like particles actually they
  • 00:10:46
    mostly attach themselves to particles
  • 00:10:48
    but they behave like particles
  • 00:10:50
    so particles actually have no way of
  • 00:10:54
    having any
  • 00:10:55
    relative motion they go with the flow of
  • 00:10:57
    air right
  • 00:10:58
    so they're always moving with the flow
  • 00:11:00
    of air so this is a really good close-up
  • 00:11:03
    picture of some tyvek filaments
  • 00:11:05
    and you can think of it this way i can
  • 00:11:07
    think of the air
  • 00:11:08
    kind of blowing towards the screen or
  • 00:11:10
    blowing
  • 00:11:11
    towards the actual filaments now what
  • 00:11:14
    happens is that those
  • 00:11:15
    filaments because in the case of tyvec
  • 00:11:18
    it is high density polyethylene we'll
  • 00:11:20
    get into that later
  • 00:11:22
    excuse me well that hdpe
  • 00:11:26
    has a little bit of static charge to it
  • 00:11:29
    that started static charge holds on to
  • 00:11:31
    those particles when they hit the
  • 00:11:33
    surface
  • 00:11:34
    right so as you can see there you see
  • 00:11:36
    particles
  • 00:11:38
    going towards the screen hits the
  • 00:11:40
    surface there's this one particle there
  • 00:11:42
    that looks like that's on the edge but
  • 00:11:43
    if that were to fall off it'll hit the
  • 00:11:45
    next filament
  • 00:11:46
    and if it falls off that filament it
  • 00:11:47
    hits the next
  • 00:11:49
    the filaments of tyvek which are large
  • 00:11:52
    and small
  • 00:11:52
    provide an incredibly torturous path
  • 00:11:55
    that it's very difficult
  • 00:11:57
    for anything to make its way through to
  • 00:11:59
    the other side
  • 00:12:00
    and when you add the electrostatic
  • 00:12:02
    charge forces on there to hold it and
  • 00:12:04
    put all those things in place
  • 00:12:06
    it's really a great sterile barrier and
  • 00:12:08
    we're going to talk a little bit about
  • 00:12:09
    that
  • 00:12:10
    through a very specific astm test so
  • 00:12:13
    there's an astm test
  • 00:12:14
    called 2638 and what you're doing there
  • 00:12:17
    is you have
  • 00:12:18
    a
  • 00:12:22
    a machine thank you lots of words there
  • 00:12:24
    have a machine
  • 00:12:26
    and i'm going to put a sample in this
  • 00:12:27
    machine
  • 00:12:29
    and then i'm going to seal it up on the
  • 00:12:31
    bottom i'm going to have a particle
  • 00:12:33
    counter so i'm going to count how many
  • 00:12:35
    particles go through
  • 00:12:36
    and on the top i am going to inject
  • 00:12:40
    three million one micron
  • 00:12:43
    styrene spheres okay three million one
  • 00:12:46
    micron styrene spheres
  • 00:12:48
    and then i'm gonna change the speed or
  • 00:12:49
    the face velocity and then i'm going to
  • 00:12:51
    count
  • 00:12:52
    on the other end how many particles made
  • 00:12:54
    their way through
  • 00:12:56
    okay the screen that you're looking at
  • 00:12:59
    right now and the and
  • 00:13:00
    and the i should say the chart that
  • 00:13:03
    you're looking
  • 00:13:03
    at on screen shows
  • 00:13:07
    the very the differences between uh
  • 00:13:10
    that ingression so on the bottom you can
  • 00:13:12
    see it's tyvek and it's near
  • 00:13:14
    zero right so you can see the purple and
  • 00:13:17
    the blue line and the darker blue line
  • 00:13:19
    that it's just near zero it's i think
  • 00:13:21
    point
  • 00:13:21
    zero five percent of 0.07 is the max p
  • 00:13:24
    value for tyvec
  • 00:13:26
    it's really incredibly low those one
  • 00:13:28
    micron styrene spheres had a really hard
  • 00:13:30
    time
  • 00:13:31
    making their way through now as you go
  • 00:13:33
    up the scale though you see 55 pound
  • 00:13:35
    coated paper 70 pounds synthetic
  • 00:13:37
    reinforced and finally
  • 00:13:38
    40 pound coated paper right and so
  • 00:13:41
    what's happening there
  • 00:13:42
    is that depending on the fibers
  • 00:13:46
    in paper the size is it also will depend
  • 00:13:50
    on the level of aggression that's
  • 00:13:52
    occurring
  • 00:13:53
    so on the next slide here what you're
  • 00:13:54
    going to see is a picture comparison of
  • 00:13:57
    tyvek versus paper you can see that
  • 00:14:00
    there's a small and large filaments
  • 00:14:02
    those are creating an
  • 00:14:03
    incredibly torturous path but paper is
  • 00:14:06
    very consistent
  • 00:14:07
    in its fiber size
  • 00:14:10
    for example if i went to the grocery
  • 00:14:12
    store and i got a craft paper bag right
  • 00:14:15
    so i have a craft
  • 00:14:16
    paper bag in order to make that bag
  • 00:14:19
    strong enough for my groceries they have
  • 00:14:21
    to have very
  • 00:14:22
    large fibers in there so it can have a
  • 00:14:25
    great deal of strength
  • 00:14:27
    but when you have large fibers what you
  • 00:14:29
    also have and you can
  • 00:14:30
    think of my fingers as fibers you also
  • 00:14:32
    have large gaps
  • 00:14:34
    in between there and those gaps are so
  • 00:14:37
    big that craft paper is never used
  • 00:14:39
    in medical packaging applications
  • 00:14:42
    medical
  • 00:14:43
    grade excuse me paper on the other hand
  • 00:14:46
    has smaller fibers
  • 00:14:47
    but they're still all consistent in
  • 00:14:50
    terms of that fiber
  • 00:14:52
    length and width and so here you can see
  • 00:14:54
    in this picture
  • 00:14:55
    you can see that there's gaps in between
  • 00:14:57
    there and it's in those gaps
  • 00:14:59
    that those styrene spheres make their
  • 00:15:01
    way through
  • 00:15:02
    okay so if we went back and michael if
  • 00:15:05
    you could just go back to the previous
  • 00:15:06
    slide
  • 00:15:07
    you will see that this is what this is
  • 00:15:10
    recording that a very low velocity
  • 00:15:12
    right we have some you know no no some
  • 00:15:15
    ingression but then we're going to have
  • 00:15:16
    a
  • 00:15:17
    a point where those styrene spheres will
  • 00:15:19
    make their way through
  • 00:15:20
    and then the faster they're going the
  • 00:15:22
    more they're going to crash into
  • 00:15:23
    something and stop
  • 00:15:25
    so let's think of that in a different
  • 00:15:26
    way if i'm on a motorcycle
  • 00:15:29
    and i'm going through woods and all the
  • 00:15:31
    trees are the same size and kind of
  • 00:15:33
    distance apart
  • 00:15:34
    there's a certain speed where i can make
  • 00:15:36
    my motorcycle and i can have the highest
  • 00:15:39
    statistical probability of making it
  • 00:15:40
    through to the other side
  • 00:15:42
    as i start to speed up and go faster and
  • 00:15:44
    faster i'm going to be
  • 00:15:45
    crashing into a tree more often so
  • 00:15:48
    that's why it kind of peaks
  • 00:15:50
    i find that sweet spot and then also i'm
  • 00:15:52
    going faster and faster
  • 00:15:53
    and it tails off and then i'm going to
  • 00:15:55
    be crashing into more trees
  • 00:15:58
    tyvek you can think of it as having not
  • 00:16:00
    only big trees but a bunch of small
  • 00:16:02
    trees as well
  • 00:16:03
    the filaments that are larger and the
  • 00:16:04
    filaments that are smaller combine
  • 00:16:06
    in such a way to form a very complex
  • 00:16:09
    pattern that that motorcycle
  • 00:16:11
    basically gets stopped very early on and
  • 00:16:13
    does not make its way through
  • 00:16:15
    so are all breathable materials the same
  • 00:16:18
    no they are not
  • 00:16:20
    are all because let me rephrase that
  • 00:16:23
    they are not
  • 00:16:23
    because the torturous path
  • 00:16:27
    is different okay torturous
  • 00:16:30
    paths are different now what's very
  • 00:16:33
    applicable today is in
  • 00:16:36
    the world of mass so let's just i'm just
  • 00:16:38
    going to throw that out there so you can
  • 00:16:40
    understand it a little bit tyvek for
  • 00:16:42
    example is breathable
  • 00:16:43
    but not breathable enough to be used as
  • 00:16:46
    a face mask
  • 00:16:47
    so the face mask materials right are
  • 00:16:49
    actually going to have
  • 00:16:51
    uh the fibers are going to be opened a
  • 00:16:54
    lot more so that you can breathe in and
  • 00:16:55
    out of them
  • 00:16:57
    but the for example n95 mass at 95
  • 00:17:00
    percent
  • 00:17:01
    what's going to happen is that they have
  • 00:17:02
    an incredibly torturous path
  • 00:17:05
    for that bacteria to make its way
  • 00:17:06
    through if i was to use this shirt
  • 00:17:09
    because it's woven and it's cotton it
  • 00:17:11
    does not provide as much of a torturous
  • 00:17:13
    path
  • 00:17:14
    my coat here maybe provides a little
  • 00:17:16
    more because i got a couple of layers in
  • 00:17:18
    here and if i breathe through this so
  • 00:17:19
    really
  • 00:17:20
    not only is it dependent on layers but
  • 00:17:22
    it's also dependent upon the complexity
  • 00:17:25
    of those filaments that are used in
  • 00:17:28
    those systems okay so just a little side
  • 00:17:30
    note for you
  • 00:17:31
    and we'll go on from there so uh just to
  • 00:17:34
    understand a little bit
  • 00:17:35
    eto i mean sorry tyvek it can be used in
  • 00:17:38
    etl sterilization gamma
  • 00:17:40
    e-beam steam and steroid right paper can
  • 00:17:42
    be used in some
  • 00:17:44
    film can be used in some right um
  • 00:17:47
    there's different reasons for this but
  • 00:17:49
    really just to let you know that tyvek
  • 00:17:51
    is compatible across all those
  • 00:17:53
    with steam you need to be careful to
  • 00:17:55
    make sure that you stay under 127
  • 00:17:58
    degrees c if you go above that and steam
  • 00:18:01
    processes the type it will start to
  • 00:18:03
    shrink so that's kind of the upper limit
  • 00:18:05
    from the steam sterilization cycle
  • 00:18:06
    so if you're running a 122 cycle you
  • 00:18:09
    should be good if you're running a 132
  • 00:18:10
    cycle
  • 00:18:11
    it's not going to work for you so but
  • 00:18:13
    more details on that you can always give
  • 00:18:14
    us a call if you need to
  • 00:18:16
    understand that a little bit more but
  • 00:18:17
    one point that i want to make here on
  • 00:18:19
    sterilization and then we'll move on
  • 00:18:21
    one second is this what is it that we
  • 00:18:23
    are trying to do when we sterilize
  • 00:18:26
    and the answer is that we are trying to
  • 00:18:29
    make
  • 00:18:30
    the ability of that organisms or we are
  • 00:18:33
    going we're trying to take away
  • 00:18:36
    that organism's ability to replicate
  • 00:18:39
    okay so we want to make sure that that
  • 00:18:41
    organism cannot replicate
  • 00:18:43
    so we are going to leave it sterile and
  • 00:18:46
    so what we're
  • 00:18:47
    after is destroying the rna and dna
  • 00:18:49
    mainly okay
  • 00:18:50
    so if i destroy rna and dna then that
  • 00:18:53
    product or that bacteria virus can't
  • 00:18:56
    replicate itself
  • 00:18:57
    for example i can take some alcohol
  • 00:19:00
    right and i can disinfect my hands
  • 00:19:03
    i can kill bacteria and viruses but i
  • 00:19:05
    don't necessarily destroy the rna and
  • 00:19:07
    dna
  • 00:19:08
    and so these processes are very lethal
  • 00:19:11
    and these processes
  • 00:19:12
    take it to another level of that
  • 00:19:14
    destruction that is what we need to do
  • 00:19:16
    to make sure that we're sterile now we
  • 00:19:18
    can do a whole presentation on
  • 00:19:19
    sterilization someday
  • 00:19:21
    my colleague dan floyd he's the uh guru
  • 00:19:24
    of uh sterilization and someday we'll
  • 00:19:27
    have him on here real soon to go ahead
  • 00:19:28
    and do a
  • 00:19:29
    sterilization seminar so you can
  • 00:19:31
    understand all things ster uh
  • 00:19:32
    sterilization but just understand
  • 00:19:34
    if you're an mdm that's what you're
  • 00:19:36
    trying to do get rid of that
  • 00:19:38
    organism's ability to replicate so that
  • 00:19:40
    the product stays sterile
  • 00:19:41
    and go from there so let's move on from
  • 00:19:44
    that
  • 00:19:45
    and so let's talk a little bit about how
  • 00:19:46
    tyvek was discovered so
  • 00:19:48
    in a lab there was a pipe going through
  • 00:19:50
    the lab and the fitting developed a
  • 00:19:52
    crack and from that flowed out some
  • 00:19:54
    polyethylene onto a lab table
  • 00:19:56
    a guy by the gen name of jim white the
  • 00:19:59
    next day came in and saw that and said
  • 00:20:01
    hmm
  • 00:20:01
    i think we can do something that's where
  • 00:20:03
    the idea came from
  • 00:20:05
    and so back in 1959 we just we made a
  • 00:20:08
    small machine to be able
  • 00:20:10
    to kind of prove this concept out and
  • 00:20:13
    then it took a bit of time before
  • 00:20:15
    in 1967 we actually had
  • 00:20:19
    our first commercial roll of tyback
  • 00:20:21
    coming off of
  • 00:20:22
    line one and two shortly thereafter
  • 00:20:26
    and so the first time though it was used
  • 00:20:28
    in medical packaging was in 1972.
  • 00:20:31
    so another question here for the group
  • 00:20:33
    can anybody tell
  • 00:20:34
    me what grade of tyvek that was
  • 00:20:38
    and the answer is 1073b
  • 00:20:42
    so 1073b has been around since 1972.
  • 00:20:46
    when they made that that style they did
  • 00:20:48
    it perfectly it was a perfect blend of
  • 00:20:50
    thickness of flexibility a puncture of
  • 00:20:53
    tear
  • 00:20:53
    of breathability everything i mean they
  • 00:20:56
    just nailed it from day one
  • 00:20:58
    and so that's why 1073 continues to be
  • 00:21:02
    our largest seller and continues to be
  • 00:21:03
    our most popular style
  • 00:21:05
    and continues to be the best tyvek to
  • 00:21:07
    use in medical packaging applications
  • 00:21:09
    right
  • 00:21:10
    and we'll talk about the other styles
  • 00:21:11
    later on in this presentation
  • 00:21:13
    and so we have two locations where we
  • 00:21:16
    make uh
  • 00:21:17
    tyvek and that's in richmond virginia
  • 00:21:19
    and luxembourg
  • 00:21:20
    and then we have various generations of
  • 00:21:23
    those uh
  • 00:21:24
    over the years so generation one
  • 00:21:26
    generation two
  • 00:21:27
    and three i'm not going to spend a lot
  • 00:21:28
    of time on this but if you had anything
  • 00:21:30
    to do
  • 00:21:31
    with the mptp or the transition protocol
  • 00:21:35
    you would have known
  • 00:21:36
    what we needed to do to go from
  • 00:21:38
    generation 1 to generation 2.
  • 00:21:40
    but currently all the styles of 1073b
  • 00:21:43
    1059 and 2fs and 40l are made on lines
  • 00:21:47
    four
  • 00:21:48
    five or seven they're not all made on
  • 00:21:49
    all the lines they're just those are the
  • 00:21:51
    three lines that are
  • 00:21:52
    basically uh set up to do medical
  • 00:21:55
    packaging
  • 00:21:56
    okay so here's a picture of the
  • 00:21:59
    luxembourg site and you can see there
  • 00:22:02
    uh in that round box is the location
  • 00:22:04
    where the
  • 00:22:05
    uh tyvek line is and then in the woods
  • 00:22:08
    behind there
  • 00:22:09
    uh this is an older picture the woods
  • 00:22:11
    have been cleared out and we're actually
  • 00:22:13
    installing another line there so we
  • 00:22:15
    announced a couple of years ago or some
  • 00:22:17
    time ago here that we are putting in a
  • 00:22:19
    new tyvek line and so
  • 00:22:20
    that's where it's actually being
  • 00:22:22
    produced and to give you an idea of
  • 00:22:24
    scale you can see the cars there on the
  • 00:22:25
    side now this is the plant and spruance
  • 00:22:27
    in in our plant in richmond virginia
  • 00:22:31
    and you can see that entire area over
  • 00:22:33
    there on the left-hand side is where
  • 00:22:34
    tyvek is made
  • 00:22:36
    so these are not small facilities now
  • 00:22:39
    one of the questions i always get is
  • 00:22:40
    jose
  • 00:22:41
    why does dupont have a monopoly on tyvek
  • 00:22:44
    and uh the reality is we do not have a
  • 00:22:47
    monopoly on today uh
  • 00:22:49
    as most of you know or maybe some of you
  • 00:22:51
    do or don't a patent lasts somewhere
  • 00:22:53
    around 17 years now it's been extended a
  • 00:22:55
    little bit for certain things but let's
  • 00:22:56
    say 17 years
  • 00:22:58
    back in the day so when was tyvek
  • 00:23:01
    discovered in the 50s right when was uh
  • 00:23:03
    it used for medical in 72. so that
  • 00:23:05
    patent has long expired
  • 00:23:08
    the thing is that no one has been able
  • 00:23:10
    to uh
  • 00:23:11
    to actually make tyvek and so that's why
  • 00:23:14
    we're the only ones that do
  • 00:23:16
    to give you an idea when the machine is
  • 00:23:18
    cold and someone hits the start button
  • 00:23:20
    when the operator hit the start button
  • 00:23:22
    it takes 48 hours
  • 00:23:24
    or two days before the everything just
  • 00:23:27
    you know stabilizes out and gets to the
  • 00:23:29
    optimum condition so we can make medical
  • 00:23:31
    grade type
  • 00:23:33
    i'm sure if you're an mdm and you told
  • 00:23:35
    your boss it's going to take two days
  • 00:23:37
    before i can make you
  • 00:23:38
    first quality grade product i'm sure
  • 00:23:40
    they'd fire you but that dupont
  • 00:23:42
    that's not the case and especially in
  • 00:23:43
    tibet because it's that hard to make
  • 00:23:46
    if the machine shuts down it takes us
  • 00:23:48
    about a week to start it up and then
  • 00:23:49
    every
  • 00:23:50
    three to four months we actually have to
  • 00:23:52
    take the nine down and for two weeks do
  • 00:23:54
    a complete overhaul
  • 00:23:55
    now remember i talked to you about that
  • 00:23:56
    startup in starting up
  • 00:23:59
    the standard operating procedure or the
  • 00:24:01
    book to start it up
  • 00:24:02
    is 150 pages so imagine going through
  • 00:24:06
    152 pages
  • 00:24:08
    to start up a machine and i tell you all
  • 00:24:11
    this because i want
  • 00:24:12
    all of you to understand that this
  • 00:24:14
    process of making tyvek is not easy
  • 00:24:16
    it's actually very complex there's a lot
  • 00:24:19
    of critical things that have to work
  • 00:24:21
    and come together for us to be able to
  • 00:24:24
    make tyvek but
  • 00:24:25
    because of that we have some some and
  • 00:24:27
    just an incredible material so we'll go
  • 00:24:29
    on from there
  • 00:24:30
    so in in this this little short video
  • 00:24:33
    where it's going to show you a little
  • 00:24:35
    bit about the
  • 00:24:36
    process that we actually make tyvek and
  • 00:24:38
    and what we're doing is we're taking the
  • 00:24:39
    polyethylene film and we're putting it
  • 00:24:41
    into solution
  • 00:24:42
    it's going to flow through a particular
  • 00:24:44
    system and it's going to come out of a
  • 00:24:46
    point where it's actually going to flash
  • 00:24:48
    and flashing flash spinning is nothing
  • 00:24:50
    more than like it's just like a
  • 00:24:51
    miniature like
  • 00:24:52
    just explosion and it's going to
  • 00:24:54
    actually generate small filaments and
  • 00:24:56
    large filaments at the same time
  • 00:24:59
    and we're going to take those large
  • 00:25:00
    filaments and small filaments that are
  • 00:25:02
    just coming out and we are going to
  • 00:25:03
    direct them
  • 00:25:05
    onto a moving belt this picture that
  • 00:25:07
    you're about to see coming up is some
  • 00:25:09
    filament so if
  • 00:25:10
    michael if you can just hold it there
  • 00:25:11
    you can see that it looks like cotton
  • 00:25:13
    candy it looks like a spider web
  • 00:25:16
    and what we're doing is there's a few
  • 00:25:17
    layers that are in there
  • 00:25:19
    and we're doing one layer on top of
  • 00:25:21
    another layer on top of another layer
  • 00:25:23
    and we're laying them down on a belt so
  • 00:25:25
    a belt is moving we're just laying
  • 00:25:26
    layers on top of layers on top of layers
  • 00:25:28
    so we're building them up and we're
  • 00:25:30
    creating what's called a
  • 00:25:31
    non-woven material so this is not a
  • 00:25:34
    woven material
  • 00:25:35
    my shirt is woven this is a non-woven
  • 00:25:37
    it's just multiple layers
  • 00:25:39
    of randomly distributed filaments that
  • 00:25:41
    are going back and forth and they're
  • 00:25:43
    filaments because they're continuous
  • 00:25:45
    and we're going to just put all these
  • 00:25:47
    layers together and then we're going to
  • 00:25:48
    bond it together and make what we know
  • 00:25:50
    is tyvek
  • 00:25:51
    so in this picture what we're trying to
  • 00:25:52
    show you is here's a there's a finger
  • 00:25:54
    there in the corner and there's a
  • 00:25:55
    filament and somebody
  • 00:25:57
    is actually pulling on the filament and
  • 00:25:58
    if we were to show you that it would go
  • 00:26:00
    back and forth and back and forth across
  • 00:26:02
    the screen
  • 00:26:03
    why is this important first because they
  • 00:26:07
    are continuous
  • 00:26:07
    and because they are going back and
  • 00:26:09
    forth when i lock those
  • 00:26:11
    in place okay what i am going to have
  • 00:26:14
    is i'm going to have an incredible
  • 00:26:17
    strength to them the big filaments that
  • 00:26:20
    are in there are what give me the
  • 00:26:21
    strength
  • 00:26:22
    the small filaments are what actually
  • 00:26:24
    give me
  • 00:26:25
    the added microbial barrier so the
  • 00:26:27
    combination of the two
  • 00:26:29
    is outstanding to be able to get large
  • 00:26:31
    filaments and small filaments
  • 00:26:33
    those large filaments also give me some
  • 00:26:35
    great puncture resistance and tear
  • 00:26:36
    resistance and michael you can go ahead
  • 00:26:37
    and hit
  • 00:26:38
    the next one so those things come up on
  • 00:26:40
    the side and then
  • 00:26:41
    what also i get is i'm going back and
  • 00:26:44
    forth i
  • 00:26:45
    bond it and we're going to talk about
  • 00:26:46
    bonding in a second and we're going to
  • 00:26:48
    fuse them together that's what gives me
  • 00:26:50
    a great machine direction
  • 00:26:52
    and cross machine direction parity so
  • 00:26:54
    the properties that i'm getting in this
  • 00:26:56
    orientation
  • 00:26:57
    and this orientation are fairly
  • 00:26:59
    comparable because of this back and
  • 00:27:00
    forth and then i'm locking it into it
  • 00:27:02
    now it also gives me really good thermal
  • 00:27:04
    stability in the sense that
  • 00:27:07
    i can heat seal this and it's not going
  • 00:27:09
    to shrink
  • 00:27:10
    it's just going to stay right there and
  • 00:27:12
    so it's got very good properties for
  • 00:27:15
    for heat sealing and those kinds of
  • 00:27:17
    things right
  • 00:27:18
    because it's also a continuous filament
  • 00:27:20
    it's also very low particle generating
  • 00:27:23
    right
  • 00:27:23
    very very low particle generating and
  • 00:27:25
    then finally
  • 00:27:27
    because these are randomly distributed
  • 00:27:29
    filaments what happens is that in some
  • 00:27:31
    areas you get
  • 00:27:32
    some thicker and i mean thicker like
  • 00:27:35
    wider
  • 00:27:36
    filaments in other areas so a lot of
  • 00:27:38
    times people go like this they like kind
  • 00:27:40
    of look at tyvek and they like look up
  • 00:27:41
    at the light and go see jose there's a
  • 00:27:43
    quality problem here that
  • 00:27:44
    thick sides in there and it's not a
  • 00:27:46
    quality issue it's just that those
  • 00:27:47
    filaments are thicker than other ones
  • 00:27:50
    on rare occasions you might have some
  • 00:27:52
    that are just a little bit
  • 00:27:53
    you know too much but that's super rare
  • 00:27:56
    but for the most part what happens is
  • 00:27:57
    that's just a normal variation
  • 00:28:00
    of the distribution of the filaments in
  • 00:28:02
    our process
  • 00:28:03
    okay so we take this material that we
  • 00:28:07
    call
  • 00:28:07
    that we've spun and we're going to bond
  • 00:28:10
    it together so we're going to put the
  • 00:28:12
    the skin on it as you know and love and
  • 00:28:14
    you feel every day
  • 00:28:15
    and it's called the bonding process now
  • 00:28:17
    there's two different types of bonding
  • 00:28:19
    processes we use
  • 00:28:20
    one type of bonding process is called
  • 00:28:22
    the hard structure bonding process right
  • 00:28:25
    so go ahead michael
  • 00:28:26
    and this bonding structure goes through
  • 00:28:28
    this very specific way and we're going
  • 00:28:30
    to call
  • 00:28:30
    go into detail and that's how we make
  • 00:28:32
    medical and graphics and
  • 00:28:34
    building and tags and labels all these
  • 00:28:36
    different styles that we have that are
  • 00:28:38
    hard structure okay we go through a
  • 00:28:41
    second or a completely different bonding
  • 00:28:43
    process
  • 00:28:44
    when we are making soft structures so
  • 00:28:46
    the point we're using point bonding so
  • 00:28:48
    now
  • 00:28:48
    these things are going to be bonded at
  • 00:28:50
    points so that the material is much more
  • 00:28:52
    flexible or cloth like
  • 00:28:54
    so soft structure is completely
  • 00:28:56
    different right now we're you know
  • 00:28:58
    dupont is very proud to be at the
  • 00:29:00
    forefront of this cold covered uh
  • 00:29:03
    you know uh defensive system in the
  • 00:29:05
    sense that we make
  • 00:29:06
    uh the tyvek bunny suits right that
  • 00:29:08
    you've seen lots of people use it's
  • 00:29:10
    really the number one suit for
  • 00:29:12
    protection and we are making as many of
  • 00:29:14
    those as we can to help fight
  • 00:29:16
    the battle out there and protect our
  • 00:29:18
    front like front line workers but
  • 00:29:21
    it runs through this very specific
  • 00:29:23
    process and we're really proud of all
  • 00:29:25
    the work that's being done by that
  • 00:29:26
    division and all the things that we do
  • 00:29:28
    with them
  • 00:29:29
    but let's now go back and talk a little
  • 00:29:30
    bit more in terms of detail
  • 00:29:32
    of bonding for hard structure so in this
  • 00:29:35
    particular graphic you can see that
  • 00:29:36
    round
  • 00:29:37
    cylinder is heated it's a big drum
  • 00:29:40
    and the surface of that drum is so
  • 00:29:42
    smooth and
  • 00:29:44
    and and just so smooth that it's shiny
  • 00:29:46
    and it's mirror-like it's an absolute if
  • 00:29:48
    you looked at it be like looking at a
  • 00:29:50
    at a mirrored surface what happens is
  • 00:29:54
    that the tyvek this unbound comes
  • 00:29:56
    against that
  • 00:29:56
    touches that's that drum that side gets
  • 00:30:00
    heated
  • 00:30:01
    and the filaments stick together right
  • 00:30:04
    so they get
  • 00:30:05
    stuck together and then immediately
  • 00:30:07
    after that we cool that one side and
  • 00:30:09
    then we flip it to the other side
  • 00:30:11
    and then we bond the other side and then
  • 00:30:14
    we cool it
  • 00:30:15
    and that's how we form tyvek that has a
  • 00:30:18
    skin
  • 00:30:19
    it's and we say it has a skin or core in
  • 00:30:21
    the skin okay
  • 00:30:22
    during the bonding process we're doing
  • 00:30:24
    several things first we're stabilizing
  • 00:30:25
    the surface so you can use it right you
  • 00:30:27
    can
  • 00:30:28
    seal to it you can coat to it you can
  • 00:30:30
    print on it right
  • 00:30:31
    but the other thing also is we're trying
  • 00:30:33
    to make sure that we keep the
  • 00:30:34
    breathability that you need for medical
  • 00:30:36
    packaging and we are shooting for 22 to
  • 00:30:38
    23 girly hill seconds
  • 00:30:40
    on the breathability side of things so
  • 00:30:43
    we've got to make sure that it's
  • 00:30:44
    breathable
  • 00:30:45
    so if we put too much pressure it
  • 00:30:47
    becomes less breathable
  • 00:30:48
    not enough it's not going to be to that
  • 00:30:51
    spec
  • 00:30:52
    right and then also this can affect
  • 00:30:55
    surface variability so let me explain
  • 00:30:57
    that in the next slide
  • 00:30:59
    so as you can see in this picture of
  • 00:31:00
    tyvek here what you're seeing is this
  • 00:31:03
    thin side there where the zero zero one
  • 00:31:05
    and if you look right above that you see
  • 00:31:07
    how that's thinner
  • 00:31:08
    than over here in the kv side and how
  • 00:31:10
    that's a little bit
  • 00:31:11
    thicker what happens is if i was to give
  • 00:31:14
    you a
  • 00:31:15
    super super super flat typical the super
  • 00:31:18
    the flattest tyvek i can give you is
  • 00:31:20
    probably going to be our graphics grade
  • 00:31:21
    so if you ever
  • 00:31:23
    see me and i give you one of my business
  • 00:31:25
    cards i you know this thing is super
  • 00:31:27
    flat it's wonderful
  • 00:31:29
    but what i've done here is i have
  • 00:31:31
    compressed it so much
  • 00:31:33
    and i have kind of joined all the
  • 00:31:35
    filaments so much
  • 00:31:37
    that this has a gurley hill seconds
  • 00:31:39
    reading of about
  • 00:31:40
    80 75 to 80. that's unacceptable
  • 00:31:44
    for medical packaging you need much more
  • 00:31:46
    breathability
  • 00:31:47
    so for me to make it flatter for you i
  • 00:31:49
    would have to take away the
  • 00:31:50
    breathability
  • 00:31:51
    okay so that's why tyvek medical grade
  • 00:31:55
    has
  • 00:31:55
    normal surface variations as we call
  • 00:31:57
    them right it actually varies in
  • 00:31:59
    thickness it's just part of the process
  • 00:32:02
    another way to think about it is if you
  • 00:32:04
    see the inset picture that second
  • 00:32:06
    picture
  • 00:32:06
    you can see right there that right there
  • 00:32:08
    where the 07 is or
  • 00:32:10
    you can see it right above where if the
  • 00:32:13
    filaments are quite high and
  • 00:32:14
    just next to it are quite low so if i
  • 00:32:16
    was to measure right there in the high
  • 00:32:18
    spot and just
  • 00:32:19
    move just a fraction lower i'm lower and
  • 00:32:22
    i would measure a different number
  • 00:32:23
    there's nothing wrong with this this
  • 00:32:25
    isn't uh you know we've been making this
  • 00:32:26
    since 1972 there's always going to be
  • 00:32:28
    that variability
  • 00:32:29
    it's just most folks have not understood
  • 00:32:32
    the process of making it with this
  • 00:32:33
    cotton candy or spider web and
  • 00:32:35
    we're building it up that there's going
  • 00:32:37
    to be natural surface variations
  • 00:32:39
    and we can't take all of those out
  • 00:32:41
    because then we would just eliminate the
  • 00:32:43
    the breathability of the material always
  • 00:32:45
    going to be some surface
  • 00:32:46
    variability but we're good we take
  • 00:32:48
    master roles that are 10 feet long
  • 00:32:50
    and we shrink them down or cut them cut
  • 00:32:52
    them down
  • 00:32:53
    to smaller sizes and then your spms will
  • 00:32:55
    take those and convert those and make
  • 00:32:57
    the products that you use and love every
  • 00:32:59
    day
  • 00:32:59
    okay so let's talk a little bit now
  • 00:33:01
    about the specific details of what
  • 00:33:03
    tyvek is so tyvec is 100
  • 00:33:07
    high density polyethylene it is also the
  • 00:33:10
    polyethylene that we use
  • 00:33:11
    is fda approved for food contact
  • 00:33:14
    polyethylene so that means it's very
  • 00:33:16
    clean
  • 00:33:17
    and pure and we want it to be clean and
  • 00:33:19
    pure because
  • 00:33:20
    guess what this can touch a medical
  • 00:33:22
    device and so because it can touch a
  • 00:33:24
    medical device we want to make sure that
  • 00:33:26
    we use the cleanest
  • 00:33:27
    and purest resin so we don't use any
  • 00:33:29
    reclaim re-grind
  • 00:33:31
    recycled nothing it's pure virgin
  • 00:33:33
    polymer that we're using in this process
  • 00:33:35
    to go through sorry excuse me
  • 00:33:37
    so because it's so clean and pure
  • 00:33:41
    guess what it is great recycled material
  • 00:33:45
    the material is going to give you some
  • 00:33:46
    of the best
  • 00:33:47
    it's going to be incredibly pure
  • 00:33:49
    sometimes some recyclers have
  • 00:33:51
    trouble chopping up tyvek and so because
  • 00:33:54
    they have trouble chopping
  • 00:33:56
    up thai they say ah we can't recycle it
  • 00:33:58
    it isn't because
  • 00:33:59
    they can't it's because the mechanical
  • 00:34:02
    chopping up process
  • 00:34:03
    isn't easy for them as other people who
  • 00:34:05
    have figured it out but
  • 00:34:07
    tyvek is 100 recyclable
  • 00:34:10
    it can go into a whole slew of
  • 00:34:12
    applications that
  • 00:34:13
    are you know hd pe in terms of what you
  • 00:34:17
    need to come out of the other end
  • 00:34:18
    now a couple things we don't do a few
  • 00:34:20
    things we don't do we don't corona treat
  • 00:34:22
    and corona treatment is when i take an
  • 00:34:24
    electrical arc and i pass it over the
  • 00:34:26
    surface of the film or in this
  • 00:34:28
    particular case tyvec
  • 00:34:30
    when i am passing an electrical arc over
  • 00:34:32
    any plastic what i am doing is i
  • 00:34:35
    am actually ripping that hydrogen off
  • 00:34:37
    when you saw that that diagram before of
  • 00:34:39
    the uh
  • 00:34:40
    of the molecules right i am ripping a
  • 00:34:43
    hydrogen off and i am leaving it
  • 00:34:45
    negatively charged when i negatively
  • 00:34:48
    charge something i am ionizing the
  • 00:34:50
    surface
  • 00:34:51
    inks bond ionically the surface is now
  • 00:34:55
    ionized and boom i'm going to get some
  • 00:34:57
    great adhesion
  • 00:34:59
    and so our graphics grade you can see
  • 00:35:01
    like six color press runs you can see
  • 00:35:03
    these beautiful you can
  • 00:35:04
    you can put a picture or print the
  • 00:35:06
    picture on on graphics great typic
  • 00:35:09
    right but here's the deal with medical
  • 00:35:11
    grade that
  • 00:35:12
    little spark right and by the way this
  • 00:35:14
    is a plasma treater
  • 00:35:16
    right here as opposed to a corona
  • 00:35:18
    treater that you're seeing in the
  • 00:35:19
    picture but i love this picture so much
  • 00:35:20
    but it tells the same story
  • 00:35:23
    you can look at that little like that
  • 00:35:25
    glowing area as like a lightning bolt
  • 00:35:27
    and if my discharge is too big
  • 00:35:30
    i can actually induce a pinhole and
  • 00:35:32
    drive a pinhole
  • 00:35:34
    into the tyvek and so for medical grade
  • 00:35:36
    we do not corona treat
  • 00:35:37
    which means print is going to be much
  • 00:35:40
    simpler it's going to be one color two
  • 00:35:41
    colors maybe three
  • 00:35:43
    you're going to have to have a little
  • 00:35:44
    drying time and some other stuff so if
  • 00:35:46
    you run into any processing issues with
  • 00:35:48
    printing
  • 00:35:48
    of tyvek just let us know and we'll be
  • 00:35:50
    able to assist you on that
  • 00:35:52
    but we don't grow on a treat we don't
  • 00:35:53
    want pinholes in it we also don't put a
  • 00:35:55
    uv
  • 00:35:56
    additive in there so the frequency of
  • 00:35:59
    ultraviolet light is such that it can
  • 00:36:01
    actually
  • 00:36:02
    break down the polymer and actually
  • 00:36:04
    fracture it
  • 00:36:05
    in hdp and tyvek especially so if you
  • 00:36:08
    were to take a piece of tyvek that's
  • 00:36:10
    medical grade
  • 00:36:11
    and you leave this out in the sun for a
  • 00:36:13
    month it will actually start turning to
  • 00:36:15
    powder it will actually
  • 00:36:16
    just fall apart because that uv is
  • 00:36:19
    is actually inhibiting it now we don't
  • 00:36:22
    put a uv inhibitor in here because again
  • 00:36:24
    it's an additive and it can come out
  • 00:36:26
    and contaminate a medical device so we
  • 00:36:28
    don't do it
  • 00:36:29
    we also don't expect that you're
  • 00:36:32
    going to leave your medical device out
  • 00:36:33
    in the sun and uh you know
  • 00:36:36
    we just don't think that's going to
  • 00:36:37
    happen so no problems here but we just
  • 00:36:39
    want to let you know
  • 00:36:41
    that we do this so that you know in case
  • 00:36:43
    you have long-term exposure of uv light
  • 00:36:46
    most of the applications we've had lots
  • 00:36:48
    of questions
  • 00:36:49
    do not come under you know aren't enough
  • 00:36:51
    uv light to actually
  • 00:36:52
    degrade tyvek but if you were to leave
  • 00:36:54
    it in the sun it will fall apart and
  • 00:36:57
    actually just disintegrate into powder
  • 00:36:59
    the last thing that we don't do is we
  • 00:37:01
    don't add an anti-stat treatment
  • 00:37:04
    and then anti-stat is nothing more than
  • 00:37:06
    a surfactant or soap
  • 00:37:08
    and soap is the coolest molecule out
  • 00:37:10
    there now you make
  • 00:37:12
    me think i'm a geek saying that i was a
  • 00:37:13
    chemistry major in college so
  • 00:37:15
    you know i'm a bit of a geek but it is
  • 00:37:17
    the coolest molecule out there and you
  • 00:37:18
    know why
  • 00:37:19
    because soap is one of the only
  • 00:37:22
    molecules few molecules that can at one
  • 00:37:24
    end will bond
  • 00:37:26
    covalently and at the other end will
  • 00:37:28
    bond ionically
  • 00:37:30
    and that's a big deal okay so one end
  • 00:37:32
    bonds ionically one in bonds covalently
  • 00:37:35
    so what does that mean so when i take a
  • 00:37:36
    shower
  • 00:37:37
    and i sit there and i'm soaking up well
  • 00:37:39
    one end of the soap molecule is actually
  • 00:37:41
    attaching itself to the organics and
  • 00:37:42
    oils
  • 00:37:43
    and then when i rinse off the other end
  • 00:37:46
    will attach itself to the water and
  • 00:37:48
    off it goes right so that's why when you
  • 00:37:51
    put soap in a greasy pan
  • 00:37:53
    it actually dissipates because one end
  • 00:37:55
    is bonding to the water one end is
  • 00:37:57
    bonding to
  • 00:37:58
    the oil okay now
  • 00:38:01
    on a humid day when you have a humid day
  • 00:38:04
    you can't take the balloon and rub it
  • 00:38:05
    with against your hair and put it up on
  • 00:38:07
    the wall
  • 00:38:07
    just doesn't work on a dry day when
  • 00:38:10
    there's
  • 00:38:10
    less humidity you can do the balloon
  • 00:38:13
    trick and the static
  • 00:38:14
    generates because it's drier so the
  • 00:38:17
    theory behind an anti-stat is this
  • 00:38:20
    i put a surfactant or a soap on the
  • 00:38:22
    surface of my film or whatever it is
  • 00:38:24
    and i'm going to drop excuse me moisture
  • 00:38:27
    out of the air and this moisture is
  • 00:38:29
    going to come to the surface
  • 00:38:31
    now i have a higher level of moisture on
  • 00:38:33
    the surface of this material
  • 00:38:36
    and because such i'm going to minimize
  • 00:38:38
    the level of static charges i can
  • 00:38:40
    develop
  • 00:38:41
    and so what i'm doing is increasing
  • 00:38:43
    humidity levels and
  • 00:38:45
    so there by minimizing and
  • 00:38:48
    static charges so that's in how an
  • 00:38:50
    anti-stat works right
  • 00:38:52
    and we don't put it in medical grade
  • 00:38:54
    tyvek why
  • 00:38:55
    because it's an additive a soap or
  • 00:38:57
    surfactant it can come off
  • 00:38:59
    it can contaminate a medical device so
  • 00:39:01
    what does this mean for you
  • 00:39:03
    a couple of things uh what it can mean
  • 00:39:05
    for you is that sometimes we have
  • 00:39:06
    customers complaining saying that
  • 00:39:08
    tyvek's dirty
  • 00:39:09
    and it's not that the type of exterior
  • 00:39:10
    sometimes as statics can bring in the
  • 00:39:13
    the dirt from the air and attach it on
  • 00:39:15
    there and also if you have automated
  • 00:39:17
    systems you have to have enough humidity
  • 00:39:19
    or static control
  • 00:39:20
    so that when you do a pick and place
  • 00:39:22
    with lids that they will pick and play
  • 00:39:25
    place and not stick together because of
  • 00:39:27
    the static okay but if you have any
  • 00:39:29
    issues on that again contact us we'll
  • 00:39:30
    help you out with that
  • 00:39:32
    so in the recap right high density
  • 00:39:34
    polyethylene fda approved for food
  • 00:39:35
    contact no corona no anti-stat
  • 00:39:38
    we flash spin it then we bond it
  • 00:39:40
    together under heat and pressure put the
  • 00:39:42
    skin on it right it's continuous
  • 00:39:43
    filaments
  • 00:39:44
    helping which is one of the main reasons
  • 00:39:46
    it's so clean and strong
  • 00:39:48
    right and then they're randomly
  • 00:39:49
    distributed non-directional so now i've
  • 00:39:51
    got really good machine and cross
  • 00:39:53
    machine direction strength right
  • 00:39:55
    so that's kind of tyvek in a nutshell
  • 00:39:58
    now if you see here these are our four
  • 00:40:00
    grades of type like i said 73b was
  • 00:40:02
    produced
  • 00:40:03
    way back in 1972.
  • 00:40:07
    many years later folks asked us they
  • 00:40:09
    said well we don't need something as
  • 00:40:10
    strong so we came up with 1059
  • 00:40:12
    the way that we make 1059 is we speed up
  • 00:40:14
    the belt just a little bit
  • 00:40:16
    and we make 10.59 if we want to make
  • 00:40:18
    1073b
  • 00:40:19
    we slow down the belt and we're making
  • 00:40:21
    1073 b
  • 00:40:22
    so it's not and there's no other
  • 00:40:24
    difference in the process other than
  • 00:40:25
    that to make 1059 or 1050
  • 00:40:27
    or 1073. 2fs is different you put
  • 00:40:30
    titanium dioxide in there it's a
  • 00:40:32
    whitening agent it makes it look
  • 00:40:34
    brighter and whiter
  • 00:40:35
    completely different and then our newest
  • 00:40:36
    material is 40 l
  • 00:40:38
    so 40l is a very very lightweight
  • 00:40:40
    material that's used
  • 00:40:42
    in competitive situations with paper it
  • 00:40:44
    is stronger than paper
  • 00:40:46
    because it's tyvek you have a lot of you
  • 00:40:48
    know a bunch of different advantages
  • 00:40:50
    from
  • 00:40:51
    moisture resistance breathability all
  • 00:40:53
    kinds of different things that are
  • 00:40:54
    designed into 4dl
  • 00:40:56
    so if you have some specific paper
  • 00:40:58
    products or where you're looking for
  • 00:40:59
    replacement because you may be having
  • 00:41:01
    some issues 4dl is the right product for
  • 00:41:03
    you
  • 00:41:04
    so this is our current lineup of all the
  • 00:41:06
    medical grade tyveks that we have
  • 00:41:09
    and so with that um you know we are here
  • 00:41:12
    to support you and to help you so if you
  • 00:41:14
    have any
  • 00:41:15
    issues with tyvek or you know running it
  • 00:41:17
    on your lines or on-site technical or
  • 00:41:19
    anything else and we have
  • 00:41:21
    all kinds of extensive data that you
  • 00:41:23
    need to use for your pma submissions or
  • 00:41:25
    for 10k
  • 00:41:26
    for 10k submissions just let us know and
  • 00:41:29
    also
  • 00:41:29
    lots on the 11 607. and we've had a
  • 00:41:32
    seminar on 11607 and we can have another
  • 00:41:34
    one of those as well
  • 00:41:36
    sometime here in the near future so just
  • 00:41:38
    let us know what also
  • 00:41:39
    in your feedback to us please let us
  • 00:41:41
    know what other seminars you'd like us
  • 00:41:43
    to hold for
  • 00:41:44
    for uh for you in general so anyway
  • 00:41:47
    that's kind of it
  • 00:41:48
    on on tyvek i know i kind of flew
  • 00:41:50
    through that i might have flown through
  • 00:41:51
    it a little quicker than usual and then
  • 00:41:53
    a lot of information to kind of go at
  • 00:41:54
    you at once
  • 00:41:56
    right but we want to make sure to kind
  • 00:41:57
    of get through this and again we can
  • 00:41:59
    answer more on the questions
  • 00:42:00
    at the end or just actually submit some
  • 00:42:03
    questions and
  • 00:42:04
    we'll get those answered for you as soon
  • 00:42:05
    as possible so now i'd like to put
  • 00:42:08
    uh sorry i'd like to bring john back and
  • 00:42:10
    john are you there
  • 00:42:12
    there you are uh so i'm glad
  • 00:42:16
    you were uh how was that jose
  • 00:42:19
    that was outstanding and you now
  • 00:42:22
    cause me to break one of the cardinal
  • 00:42:24
    rules of presenting which is never try
  • 00:42:26
    to follow
  • 00:42:27
    such a good presenter uh because you
  • 00:42:29
    raised the bar so much on the rest of us
  • 00:42:31
    but that was excellent thank you for
  • 00:42:33
    that
  • 00:42:33
    well well thank you and we're glad to
  • 00:42:35
    have you and so during this half of the
  • 00:42:37
    presentation
  • 00:42:38
    our folks at spectrum are going to
  • 00:42:40
    present some some great information for
  • 00:42:42
    you and so i'll let
  • 00:42:43
    john right now take over and so john all
  • 00:42:45
    yours
  • 00:42:46
    thanks jose so hello everyone um it's me
  • 00:42:50
    again
  • 00:42:50
    really pleased to get to take you
  • 00:42:52
    through a bit more about spectrum
  • 00:42:54
    plastics group
  • 00:42:56
    um our films division in particular and
  • 00:42:58
    then we'll talk through some options and
  • 00:43:00
    information around tyvek converting
  • 00:43:04
    so i will lead off with that outline um
  • 00:43:07
    i leak have the privilege to lead the
  • 00:43:09
    films division four spectrum been in
  • 00:43:12
    packaging for
  • 00:43:13
    25 years and i learned so many things in
  • 00:43:16
    that tyvek presentation that you know
  • 00:43:18
    it'll take me a while to process it all
  • 00:43:21
    i'll be joined later by chris brewster
  • 00:43:23
    our engineering manager and ben
  • 00:43:25
    stevens our project and process engineer
  • 00:43:27
    both who are based in our wisconsin
  • 00:43:29
    facility
  • 00:43:31
    so let's jump into a little bit about
  • 00:43:34
    spectrum
  • 00:43:38
    so spectrum is a leader in the
  • 00:43:40
    development and scale manufacturing of
  • 00:43:43
    critical polymer based
  • 00:43:44
    components for the medical market we do
  • 00:43:47
    this through four
  • 00:43:48
    operating divisions so we have a tubing
  • 00:43:51
    and assembly division
  • 00:43:53
    we have a specialty plastics and
  • 00:43:55
    injection molding business
  • 00:43:57
    a packaging division which is the films
  • 00:43:59
    that i lead
  • 00:44:00
    and then in a vascular and assembled
  • 00:44:03
    devices division
  • 00:44:05
    we do this through 18 plants around the
  • 00:44:07
    globe with over
  • 00:44:08
    2 000 employees and our comprehensive
  • 00:44:12
    product and capability portfolio
  • 00:44:14
    look to make us a first call solutions
  • 00:44:17
    provider for the demanding global
  • 00:44:19
    medical device market
  • 00:44:21
    so let's dive in a little bit more about
  • 00:44:24
    films
  • 00:44:24
    unlike dupont we weren't granted half a
  • 00:44:27
    state to get started
  • 00:44:29
    but we did start well over 70 years ago
  • 00:44:33
    in the chicago area focused on blown
  • 00:44:36
    film extrusion and
  • 00:44:37
    converting while we were initially
  • 00:44:40
    focused on the food and industrial end
  • 00:44:42
    markets we entered the medical space in
  • 00:44:44
    1990
  • 00:44:45
    and since then our medical flexible
  • 00:44:48
    packaging has grown significantly to
  • 00:44:50
    have a wide range of solutions for both
  • 00:44:52
    the sterile and non-sterile applications
  • 00:44:56
    in late 2020 our division closed on the
  • 00:44:59
    acquisition of the peelmaster medical
  • 00:45:01
    packaging business based in niles
  • 00:45:03
    illinois
  • 00:45:04
    which is about 40 miles from our
  • 00:45:06
    pleasant prairie wisconsin facility
  • 00:45:09
    and by doing that we felt very strongly
  • 00:45:12
    how it advanced our goal to be a custom
  • 00:45:14
    scalable solution provider for the
  • 00:45:16
    medical device market
  • 00:45:19
    notably with this acquisition as jose
  • 00:45:22
    mentioned earlier we were awarded
  • 00:45:23
    authorized converter status from dupont
  • 00:45:26
    for stereo medical packaging so we're
  • 00:45:28
    really pleased how this is expanded
  • 00:45:31
    both our reach in the market and then
  • 00:45:33
    what else we can offer to customers
  • 00:45:36
    so diving in just a little further about
  • 00:45:39
    who we are and where we are
  • 00:45:41
    so our headquarters and largest location
  • 00:45:44
    is in pleasant prairie wisconsin
  • 00:45:46
    we have 33 blown film lines there with
  • 00:45:49
    multiple converting lines that can do
  • 00:45:51
    both sterile and non-sterile packaging
  • 00:45:54
    we do printing in line and out of line
  • 00:45:57
    up to four colors
  • 00:45:59
    our second location is in costa rica
  • 00:46:03
    where we also do blown film converting
  • 00:46:05
    and tubing extrusion
  • 00:46:07
    there we have five blown film lines six
  • 00:46:10
    medical tubing lines
  • 00:46:12
    and five converting lines that can do
  • 00:46:14
    sterile and non-sterile packaging
  • 00:46:16
    and then we get to introduce the newest
  • 00:46:18
    member of our family the niles
  • 00:46:20
    location um there we have four sterile
  • 00:46:24
    pouch lines
  • 00:46:25
    a header bag line die cut lids
  • 00:46:27
    production and over 800 tools for tyvek
  • 00:46:30
    sterile packaging
  • 00:46:32
    so we feel very positive about what
  • 00:46:34
    we're able to do this business has
  • 00:46:36
    continued to grow
  • 00:46:38
    and become an even larger part of our
  • 00:46:40
    portfolio
  • 00:46:41
    so with that i'm going to turn it over
  • 00:46:43
    to chris brewster and he will start to
  • 00:46:45
    take you into some of our capabilities
  • 00:46:47
    and the things that we do
  • 00:46:49
    go ahead chris
  • 00:46:53
    thanks john our relationship with dupont
  • 00:46:56
    tyvek allows the
  • 00:46:58
    spectrum plastics group to provide
  • 00:46:59
    innovative custom
  • 00:47:01
    solutions for the medical markets
  • 00:47:04
    in doing so they provide products to
  • 00:47:07
    help reduce physical damage as well as
  • 00:47:10
    provide a microbial barrier as
  • 00:47:12
    jose had spoke about to ensure product
  • 00:47:14
    sterility
  • 00:47:16
    our engineering team fields many
  • 00:47:18
    requests for converted sterile packaging
  • 00:47:21
    we respond to these requests tyvek
  • 00:47:23
    solutions coupled with
  • 00:47:25
    spectrum plastics groups film
  • 00:47:26
    innovations
  • 00:47:29
    so what do any use factors need to be
  • 00:47:32
    considered
  • 00:47:33
    when designing a tyvek sterile package
  • 00:47:36
    i think first of all is
  • 00:47:37
    manufacturability
  • 00:47:39
    is your package configuration optimized
  • 00:47:41
    for manufacturing on your shop floor
  • 00:47:44
    next would be integrity will the package
  • 00:47:46
    maintain a sterile barrier
  • 00:47:48
    through manufacturing and the supply
  • 00:47:50
    chain
  • 00:47:52
    but also what are the performance
  • 00:47:53
    criteria that need to be met
  • 00:47:56
    for the end use additionally
  • 00:48:00
    appearance does the package clearly
  • 00:48:02
    illustrate its contents
  • 00:48:04
    and information for use and then finally
  • 00:48:08
    is it easy to use will the clinician be
  • 00:48:10
    able to
  • 00:48:11
    open the package aseptically
  • 00:48:16
    on the next slide we will begin to
  • 00:48:19
    provide an overview of the tools we use
  • 00:48:21
    to design
  • 00:48:24
    dupont provides a product slate that
  • 00:48:27
    allows
  • 00:48:28
    spectrum plastics group to integrate our
  • 00:48:30
    custom film solutions for converting
  • 00:48:32
    sterile packaging
  • 00:48:35
    now ben is going to introduce a few of
  • 00:48:38
    these topics further including
  • 00:48:40
    appealable pouches header bags square
  • 00:48:43
    and die cut lids
  • 00:48:44
    as well as form fill steel solutions
  • 00:48:46
    with dupont tyvec
  • 00:48:48
    ben hi chris thanks
  • 00:48:52
    and hello to everybody thanks for
  • 00:48:53
    joining our webinar today
  • 00:48:55
    um i was asked as chris mentioned to
  • 00:48:57
    discuss a few different options that we
  • 00:48:59
    can offer here from
  • 00:49:00
    spectrum plastics for converted medical
  • 00:49:03
    packaging
  • 00:49:05
    i'm going to start off talking about
  • 00:49:06
    tyvek peel pouches
  • 00:49:08
    what is a tyvek peel pouch generally
  • 00:49:11
    this is a this is a combination of webs
  • 00:49:15
    designed for use with a light item where
  • 00:49:17
    seeing the contents of the pouch
  • 00:49:20
    is critical obviously one of the main
  • 00:49:23
    characteristics and design features for
  • 00:49:25
    a pouch is to maintain stability for the
  • 00:49:28
    lifetime of the product but
  • 00:49:30
    while in design phase i want to i want
  • 00:49:32
    us all to make sure that we keep in mind
  • 00:49:34
    that during the the lifetime of this
  • 00:49:36
    product
  • 00:49:37
    packaging product it's going to see
  • 00:49:38
    shipping and warehousing time so we have
  • 00:49:40
    to consider those items
  • 00:49:42
    when designing three we have to consider
  • 00:49:46
    size of the product that's going into
  • 00:49:48
    the pouch
  • 00:49:49
    we don't want to design a pouch that is
  • 00:49:51
    so much bigger than a product that's
  • 00:49:53
    going in it
  • 00:49:54
    that the contents of the pouch can move
  • 00:49:56
    around
  • 00:49:57
    and cause unnecessary abrasion or
  • 00:50:00
    pressure on the seal areas we also don't
  • 00:50:03
    want to have the pouch so
  • 00:50:04
    small that after the pouch is filled
  • 00:50:07
    with its contents
  • 00:50:08
    that the contents are pushing out on the
  • 00:50:11
    seal area
  • 00:50:12
    that can severely affect the integrity
  • 00:50:14
    of the pouches
  • 00:50:16
    at spectrum we generally design our fill
  • 00:50:19
    pouches with an opening force of one to
  • 00:50:21
    two pounds
  • 00:50:22
    peel of course i do want to mention that
  • 00:50:25
    during the design
  • 00:50:26
    phase we want to make sure that we are
  • 00:50:28
    hitting the right
  • 00:50:30
    peel strength for the application
  • 00:50:32
    obviously if we're packaging a swab
  • 00:50:34
    versus a tubing set
  • 00:50:36
    there may be a different or a different
  • 00:50:39
    fuel value necessary some of the
  • 00:50:42
    materials that we can offer from
  • 00:50:43
    spectrum
  • 00:50:44
    are a pet pe a nylon pe
  • 00:50:47
    and a polypropylene p combination
  • 00:50:52
    we also offer a uh customizable
  • 00:50:56
    polyethylene based proprietary film
  • 00:50:59
    that's produced right here in pleasant
  • 00:51:00
    prairie wisconsin
  • 00:51:02
    um that can be offered in gauges
  • 00:51:05
    from 4 to 10 mil all these phones can be
  • 00:51:09
    used in combination develop
  • 00:51:11
    depending on the specification with
  • 00:51:13
    coded or uncoded
  • 00:51:15
    taivac 40l 2fs 1059b
  • 00:51:18
    and 1073b some attributes for you to
  • 00:51:21
    consider
  • 00:51:22
    our maximum length by width is 28 by 28
  • 00:51:26
    inches
  • 00:51:27
    minimum two inches by four inches our
  • 00:51:30
    pouches can be
  • 00:51:31
    printed or unprinted up to four color
  • 00:51:35
    our team can help your team develop your
  • 00:51:37
    pouch whether you're going to be
  • 00:51:39
    utilizing a hand loaded or an automated
  • 00:51:41
    packaging system all of our pouches are
  • 00:51:45
    have a nice clean pure peel with no
  • 00:51:48
    fiber tear
  • 00:51:49
    great for aseptic presentation
  • 00:51:53
    all of our pouches are compatible with
  • 00:51:55
    most of the major
  • 00:51:56
    uh sterilization methods
  • 00:52:00
    next going to talk a little bit about
  • 00:52:01
    header bags what is a header bag
  • 00:52:04
    generally header bags are going to be
  • 00:52:06
    used for larger bulkier devices
  • 00:52:08
    such as trays kits tubing sets maybe
  • 00:52:11
    procedural sets again sizing is critical
  • 00:52:15
    fees we're going to use the same thought
  • 00:52:17
    process as we did
  • 00:52:18
    for pouches we don't want the header bag
  • 00:52:21
    to be too big
  • 00:52:22
    or too small again the opening feature
  • 00:52:26
    that we designed for the fuel force
  • 00:52:29
    we're looking at again one to two pound
  • 00:52:31
    fuel force but spectrum can provide you
  • 00:52:33
    a custom solution if necessary
  • 00:52:36
    materials that we use for the body film
  • 00:52:39
    we use a proprietary blend
  • 00:52:41
    um of polyethylene based material
  • 00:52:44
    it's made right here in pleasant prairie
  • 00:52:46
    wisconsin
  • 00:52:47
    this is nice because it offers both our
  • 00:52:50
    wisconsin and niles facility a
  • 00:52:52
    custom-based solution for our header bag
  • 00:52:54
    films
  • 00:52:56
    spectrum also has a proprietary peelable
  • 00:52:58
    layer
  • 00:52:59
    i mentioned this because what's nice
  • 00:53:00
    about this is
  • 00:53:02
    the peelable layer again is made here in
  • 00:53:04
    wisconsin we can vary fuel forces
  • 00:53:07
    if necessary what it does is it creates
  • 00:53:10
    a
  • 00:53:10
    permanent bond to the tyvek we can see
  • 00:53:12
    this one side
  • 00:53:14
    is permanent the next side as we peel
  • 00:53:16
    open offers a nice
  • 00:53:18
    dual reveal on the two-pound opening
  • 00:53:20
    force
  • 00:53:24
    these films are completely capable with
  • 00:53:26
    both uncoated and coded
  • 00:53:27
    40l 2fs 1059bn 1073
  • 00:53:31
    b type x
  • 00:53:34
    some other key attributes 52 inches wide
  • 00:53:37
    by 40 inch length
  • 00:53:38
    is the maximum size and they go down
  • 00:53:40
    from there
  • 00:53:42
    film gauge range generally from three to
  • 00:53:44
    six mil custom solutions are available
  • 00:53:47
    it can be authored as non-printed or
  • 00:53:49
    printed up to four colors
  • 00:53:50
    and all of course will will have a nice
  • 00:53:54
    clean feel for aseptic presentation
  • 00:53:57
    i do want to mention that we are working
  • 00:53:59
    on
  • 00:54:00
    using a header bag design in combination
  • 00:54:02
    with a linear terrafilm
  • 00:54:04
    as an alternative opening feature
  • 00:54:09
    moving on to tyvek square and die cut
  • 00:54:12
    lids
  • 00:54:13
    um what are these these are essentially
  • 00:54:15
    pieces of tyvek
  • 00:54:16
    that are cut to size to fit a pre-formed
  • 00:54:20
    container
  • 00:54:23
    generally we utilize a coated 1073
  • 00:54:26
    and 1059 tyvek but depending on
  • 00:54:29
    requirements we might be able to use
  • 00:54:31
    other products
  • 00:54:32
    what's the difference between a die cut
  • 00:54:34
    and a square cut lid
  • 00:54:36
    a die-cut lid is something that is
  • 00:54:38
    actually
  • 00:54:40
    matches the shape perfectly or near
  • 00:54:42
    perfectly
  • 00:54:43
    of the free form container square cut
  • 00:54:45
    lid
  • 00:54:46
    is as the name implies a square piece of
  • 00:54:49
    tie back with 90 degree corners on each
  • 00:54:51
    of the four corners
  • 00:54:53
    i mentioned the difference because as
  • 00:54:56
    we're going through a square cut lid
  • 00:54:57
    may offer a better cost point and also
  • 00:55:01
    as a design feature a square cut lid
  • 00:55:03
    with a rounded corner may actually
  • 00:55:05
    present you
  • 00:55:06
    or your end use customer with an opening
  • 00:55:09
    feature
  • 00:55:09
    for that container
  • 00:55:13
    again these can be printed up to four
  • 00:55:15
    colors mention the sizes for square cut
  • 00:55:18
    maximum width is about 24 inches
  • 00:55:20
    minimum width is about 2 inches length
  • 00:55:22
    of these is essentially unlimited
  • 00:55:25
    fair die cut options we can offer up 13
  • 00:55:28
    by 21 inches
  • 00:55:29
    maximum and a minimum of one and a half
  • 00:55:32
    to two inches
  • 00:55:34
    finally i'd like to talk a little bit
  • 00:55:36
    about our form-filled seal solutions
  • 00:55:38
    spectrum has developed a proprietary
  • 00:55:40
    polyethylene based film
  • 00:55:42
    that's met many demanding applications
  • 00:55:45
    it's got excellent puncture strength
  • 00:55:47
    abrasion and crack resistance and it
  • 00:55:49
    offers
  • 00:55:50
    people a very wide processing window
  • 00:55:54
    another design consideration as farm
  • 00:55:57
    fill seal solutions are now creating
  • 00:55:59
    more of a 3d type package we have to
  • 00:56:01
    consider
  • 00:56:02
    drawdown um basically how deep you're
  • 00:56:05
    forming this
  • 00:56:06
    this packaging solution i mentioned this
  • 00:56:09
    is
  • 00:56:09
    this sometimes directly correlates to
  • 00:56:11
    the gauge of the film
  • 00:56:13
    um same same uh thought process again
  • 00:56:17
    for how big
  • 00:56:18
    or how small we don't want any of the
  • 00:56:21
    contents of the pouch
  • 00:56:22
    or the farm fuel ceil solution to create
  • 00:56:25
    any damage to the packaging
  • 00:56:28
    again we have a proprietary polyethylene
  • 00:56:31
    based solution
  • 00:56:32
    uh produced in pleasant prairie
  • 00:56:33
    wisconsin uh
  • 00:56:36
    age range generally of 3 to 16 mil
  • 00:56:39
    these films can be offered as clear
  • 00:56:42
    tinted
  • 00:56:43
    opaque whatever your solution requires
  • 00:56:48
    again this film has excellent forming
  • 00:56:50
    qualities great clarity
  • 00:56:52
    excellent puncture resistance many times
  • 00:56:55
    we've been able to
  • 00:56:56
    taken and reduce the gauge of an
  • 00:56:58
    incumbent film for some of our customers
  • 00:57:02
    many times our tensile strengths are
  • 00:57:04
    comparable to that of nylon
  • 00:57:06
    also our films offer excellent cornering
  • 00:57:10
    thickness i mentioned this is this is an
  • 00:57:12
    inherent weak area in this type of
  • 00:57:14
    packaging
  • 00:57:15
    so the thicker you can maintain the film
  • 00:57:17
    in the corners the better
  • 00:57:19
    this slide says our cornering thickness
  • 00:57:21
    is generally above one mil
  • 00:57:24
    i also wanted to mention that we're
  • 00:57:26
    working with multiple form-filled seal
  • 00:57:28
    machine oems to develop future bottom
  • 00:57:31
    web
  • 00:57:31
    options which would include a direct
  • 00:57:34
    seal to uncoated type
  • 00:57:36
    so stay tuned for that that's all i have
  • 00:57:39
    for you today thank you again for
  • 00:57:41
    joining i'm going to hand this back over
  • 00:57:43
    to
  • 00:57:43
    john and jose to wrap up thank you we're
  • 00:57:46
    going to bring this to a close i know
  • 00:57:47
    there's a few questions that we haven't
  • 00:57:49
    had a chance to kind of address but
  • 00:57:51
    we're going to
  • 00:57:52
    promise you whoever asked us we're going
  • 00:57:54
    to email you directly we're going to
  • 00:57:56
    get back to you into some of these right
  • 00:57:58
    and and address some of these questions
  • 00:58:00
    and so
  • 00:58:02
    uh again if you have any questions
  • 00:58:04
    here's the contact information for us
  • 00:58:06
    we'll be sending the presentations from
  • 00:58:09
    um sorry excuse me this is the spectrum
  • 00:58:12
    group and in there will be all their
  • 00:58:14
    contact information as well
  • 00:58:16
    so ask us anything you like and we're
  • 00:58:19
    here to help you and so
  • 00:58:20
    uh any any words from from you
  • 00:58:24
    uh before i completely close the seminar
  • 00:58:26
    today
  • 00:58:27
    jose really just to say thank you again
  • 00:58:29
    to you and the medical tyvek team
  • 00:58:32
    for hosting the webinar i'm really
  • 00:58:34
    pleased for this to be a part of our
  • 00:58:36
    spectrum connect week
  • 00:58:38
    and um i think you know this is a nice
  • 00:58:40
    centerpiece i was pleased to be a part
  • 00:58:42
    of it and thanks chris and ben for your
  • 00:58:44
    work
  • 00:58:45
    thank you perfect and and on behalf of
  • 00:58:48
    dupont i'd like to welcome the spectrum
  • 00:58:50
    family again
  • 00:58:51
    to to to our family uh the dupont tyvek
  • 00:58:54
    family it's a fun family it's a good
  • 00:58:56
    group of people
  • 00:58:56
    and uh it's a fun industry to be in and
  • 00:58:59
    so welcome to this side of it and uh
  • 00:59:02
    to uh all of you online thank you for
  • 00:59:04
    taking the time out for today's uh
  • 00:59:07
    seminar and and webinar and again we'll
  • 00:59:09
    address your questions we'll get stuff
  • 00:59:10
    back to you
  • 00:59:11
    and if you have any further questions
  • 00:59:13
    just feel free to get back to us and so
  • 00:59:15
    thank you and have a wonderful day or
  • 00:59:18
    night wherever you may be so thank you
标签
  • DuPont
  • Tyvek
  • embalatge mèdic
  • Spectrum Plastics
  • sterilització
  • barrera estèril
  • pouches
  • bosses de capçal
  • tapes de tall
  • solucions personalitzades