Nelipak Healthcare Packaging

Nelipak Wins 2026 DuPont™ Tyvek® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Award for Sustainability In-use

Nelipak’s Ecovate™ header bag, featuring all-polyethylene construction and Tyvek® with Renewable Attribution, recognized for helping the growing ready-to-fill/use market advance packaging circularity.

CRANSTON, R.I., Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nelipak® Corporation (“Nelipak®”), a leading global provider of healthcare packaging solutions, announced it has been named a Dupont™ Tyvek^® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Awards winner in the Sustainability In-Use category for its innovative Ecovate™ header bag product platform.

The Tyvek^® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Awards recognize industry leaders who embrace and drive sustainability innovations throughout the packaging lifecycle. Nelipak was recognized for its innovative Ecovate™ header bag product which is a recyclable^[1], mono-material alternative to traditional mixed-material structures used in medical device and pharma drug delivery applications, including ready-to-fill/use (RTF/U) systems.

"The judges for the Tyvek® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Awards found that Nelipak’s Ecovate™ header bag demonstrates how innovative packaging design can help advance greater circularity in healthcare packaging,” said Lesley Aulick, global business director, DuPont™ Tyvek^® Roll Goods. “We are honored Tyvek^® has a role in Nelipak’s Ecovate™ solution that shows packaging can be redesigned to reduce material waste and carbon emissions while maintaining performance and meeting regulatory requirements essential to healthcare applications.”

Nelipak’s Ecovate™ product line features healthcare packaging products designed to support circularity by incorporating recycle-ready certification and/or recycled material content. The Ecovate™ header bag product combines mono-axially oriented PE (MOPE), blown co-extruded PE, and Tyvek® with Renewable Attribution. The structure is engineered to maintain the mechanical performance, pinhole resistance and sterile barrier protection required for automated filling while enabling improved end-of-life recyclability^[1].   

“Healthcare packaging must meet demanding performance and regulatory requirements, and sustainability can no longer be treated as an afterthought,” said Nic Hunt, Head of Global Sustainability at Nelipak. “The Ecovate™ header bag was developed to address that challenge by rethinking the material structure of a widely used packaging format. This recognition from DuPont validates the potential of mono-material packaging to deliver sustainability in healthcare packaging without compromising product performance or regulatory compliance.”

Key sustainability benefits of Nelipak’s Ecovate™ header bags include:

• Third-party certified recyclability^[1]: certified by Institut Cyclos-HTP for recycling in the Flex PE stream.
• Lower emissions: manufactured using renewable electricity and has the potential to reduce products greenhouse gas footprint by up to 40%, assuming end-of-life recycling.
• Mono-material design: supports alignment with the European Union's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) Article 6 requirements for mono-material packaging.
  
  

[1] Recyclability depends on local infrastructure and as a result all products sold as “recycle ready” may not in practice be recyclable in every place sold.

About Nelipak^®

Nelipak^® is a leading global provider of healthcare packaging solutions including rigid and flexible sterile-barrier packaging for medical device, diagnostic, pharmaceutical drug delivery, and other demanding applications. To support the development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions, Nelipak^® offers in-house design, prototyping, tooling, simulation, validation, laboratory, and other value-added services as well as a line of tray sealing equipment. With over 1,600 employees, Nelipak operates at 14 sites globally, including 8 sites in the Americas (USA, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico), 5 sites in Europe (Ireland, Netherlands, UK), and 1 site in Asia (Singapore). Nelipak^® is committed to delivering superior quality, service, and customer experience through world-class cleanroom manufacturing. For more information, visit www.nelipak.com.

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