Ireland-based medical packaging specialist SteriPack is to begin production at its first facility in North America in October.
The 4,000sqm plant in Lakeland, Florida is ISO 13485 certified and will manufacture products in an ISO class 8 clean room, servicing the North and South American markets with flexible medical packaging and contract manufacturing services.
SteriPack USA will offer clean room manufactured pouches, header bags, and SteriPack’s SteriBags, as well as die cut lids, rollstock, and many other medical packaging products.
Tony Paolino, president SteriPack USA, says: “SteriPack has been exploring several options in the US for the past three years to find the ideal situation and location. The facility is a ‘first in class’ operation and draws on the nearly 20 years of experience that SteriPack has in manufacturing converted products and providing contract manufacturing services in a class 8 clean room.”
With facilities in Ireland, Poland and Malaysia, SteriPack says demand for a US location was driven by requests from many of its existing US-based customers keen to have the same service at home as they are used to receiving from SteriPack at their locations outside the US.
Founded in Ireland in 1994, SteriPack also provides contract services with its ISO-17025 certified package testing lab.
SteriPack: set to begin production at new Florida facility in October 2012
