Assortment of Blank Medicine Bottles

Medical and Pharmaceutical Packaging

Explore Dow’s medical and pharmaceutical packaging applications

Our medical packing application solutions are expertly designed for use in medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Our versatile portfolio of rigid and flexible polyethene products helps to enable innovative medical structures that offer security, flexibility, safety and regulatory compliance for medical, pharmaceutical and nutritional applications.

Ensuring patient safety while facilitating the ease of human care has become an increasing and complex need. That’s why Dow has been working to enhance our offerings for medical and pharmaceutical packaging.

Explore what Dow offers for medical and pharmaceutical packaging applications

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Medical Fluid Bags

The remedy to help keep contents safe and secure during use, shipment, and storage.

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Single-Use Bioprocessing Bags

Layers of protection that keep biopharma formulations safe and secure.

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Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) Containers

Enjoy peace of mind with FDA-approved, high-performing polyethylene resins.

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Blister Packaging

Peelable adhesives and clear films that deter tampering and support dosing.

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Bottles

FDA-compliant resins offering barrier, chemical resistance, processability.

Pharma and medical bottles with various types of closures 

Closures

Diverse range of materials for tamper-and leak-resistant seals and closures.

Providing the consistency and quality you deserve in packaging

Dow materials offer lot-to-lot consistency and quality because of our stringent manufacturing specifications, which are well suited to address the expectations of regulated healthcare and nutritional products. If your challenge is designing for chemical resistance, organoleptic performance, gamma stability, biocompatibility or patient and staff safety, we have materials and experience that can help. We are passionate about helping our customers to reduce waste and capture value across the supply chain.

HEALTH+™ Polymers

HEALTH+™ Polymers address quality and consistency standards for medical, pharmaceutical and nutritional applications. They are specially designed and FDA-approved to help check all the boxes without worrying about every single detail along the way. Our successful, pre-approved resins help support the product development process with:

  • Excellent performance and processing
  • 1-year notification of change/1-year right to buy
  • Drug master file (DMF) listings
  • USP Class VI and/or EU Pharmacopeia
  • USP <661.1>

HEALTH™ Polymers

Compliance without legwork? Explore our portfolio of HEALTH+™ Polymers.

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HEALTH+™ Polymers Brochure

Find out more about our FDA-approved offerings for bottles, closures, and blow-fill-seal and more.

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