Amcor Innovation Award

Award Criteria

This Award recognises outstanding achievements in packaging innovation across the full range of materials, structures, components and developments. The packaging should be enhanced by innovative design and thinking, demonstrate a significant advance in technology or material usage and should deliver significant benefit to the market place.

Entry Submitted By

PlasPak

Package Title

Disposable Telepac

Package Component Manufacturer

PlasPak

Package Designer Functional

Fairmont Medical

Package Designer Graphic

Fairmont Medical

Package Owner

Fairmont Medical

Comments

Fairmont Medical’s Disposable Telepac provides an efficient solution for medical telescope sterilisation, transportation and reprocessing. Utilised in Australian and European hospitals, the unique design ensures there is no physical handling of the delicate and expensive medical telescopes until actual use in the operating room. This clever design meets an important industry requirement by overcoming an inefficient process of telescopes towel-wrapped on sterilisation trays. The custom-designed concertina-style storage tube can be retracted to reveal the telescope and avoid any further risk of contamination before use. The pack is tamper proof, robust and is designed to stack neatly courtesy of its square profile. The Telepac is manufactured using polypropylene for its strength and ability to withstand high sterilisation temperatures and it is also 100% recyclable.