Less mess and less fuss with FMP’s innovative new medicine ‘tube sachets’.

For families and medical practitioners irritated by fiddly sachets of medicine and lotion, an innovative UK healthcare packaging company has come up with the answer!

Lancaster based, Flexible Medical, is to launch a brand-new ‘tube sachet’ which will have a tube sealed within the sterile sachet to make administering the contents so much easier and far less messy.

Initially the clever concept, based on similar packaging within the food and drink industry, will be used for the application of topical sterile fluids. It has already been adopted by a large medical device company for use in wound care, and further developments are in progress.

An adaption of the design will also allow for single dose medicines and oral cleansing liquids to be administered.

Flexible Medical packaging (or FMP) will show the innovation at several exhibitions this year including;

24th – 25th Feb 2010 = easyFairs Contract Pack 2010, Birmingham NEC

25th – 27th May 2010 = Total Processing & Packaging, Birmingham NEC

9th June 2010 = Medical Innovation Forum, Olympia Conference Centre, Harrogate

The company expects the concept to be very popular and has built an additional 10,000 Class (7) clean room to accommodate production of the new sachet.

FMP operates one of the largest facilities of its kind in the UK comprising a 4000 sq. ft. 100,000 Class (8) clean room linked to a 3000 sq. ft. clean environment finishing section, a large sterile storage unit and an additional 1,000 Class (6) clean room for intricate / pharmacy packing.

They offer a complete pharmaceutical contract packaging and medical packaging service including product development and medical packaging from concept to full scale manufacture; formulation services for topical end use products, including packaging design, life cycle testing and prototyping services; provision of medical packaging substrates including heat seal papers and filmic materials; competitive clean room based contract packing with short lead times for both ethical and OTC healthcare products; and a ‘White Room’ web printing facility with four purpose built machines coupled with full web scanning, total batch traceability, in line die cutting and lamination services.

FMP is a progressive company, operating under ISO 13485:2003, ISO 14001:2004 and ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems and the MHRA Manufacturers Licence.

For more details of FMP’s unbeatable service visit http://www.flexible-medical.com/ or call 01524 68737.