Integrated Tray & Lid for medical devices streamline your packaging supply chain

Medical

December 15, 2025

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Related regions: North America, EMEA

In medical device manufacturing, every link in the supply chain influences timelines, cost control, and patient safety. Managing multiple suppliers, aligning quality systems, and coordinating audits across facilities can introduce unnecessary complexity, and risk.

What if you could simplify supplier, quality and audit management?

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The challenge of fragmented supply chains

Many medical device manufacturers work with separate suppliers for thermoformed trays and lidding materials. While workable, this model often creates avoidable challenges, including:

  • Multiple vendor relationships to manage
  • Separate audits and expanded compliance workload
  • Variability in component quality and compatibility
  • Increased logistical complexity
  • Slower issue resolution across disconnected suppliers

Every additional supplier adds another potential layer of complexity.

The integrated advantage: Tray and Lid production under one roof

Amcor brings tray and lid manufacturing together under one roof, delivering a more controlled, efficient, and reliable packaging experience from concept to commercialization.

Streamlined Supply Chain Management

Working with a single supplier for your complete sterile barrier packaging system simplifies procurement, reduces administrative burden, and eliminates coordination headaches. One purchase order, one delivery schedule, one point of contact.

Simplified Audit Planning

Instead of conducting audits at separate tray and lid facilities, you handle one comprehensive audit. This frees up valuable time and resources for your quality team while giving you visibility into the entire packaging system.

Consistent Quality

When trays, lids, and coatings are developed and manufactured together, quality is built into the entire system from the ground up. That means:

  • Predictable, controlled peel at the point of use
  • Validated material compatibility
  • Consistent performance from run to run

Reduced Risk and Faster Time to Market

Integrated production means fewer variables, better communication, and faster problem-solving. When design modifications are needed, changes can be implemented across both tray and lid simultaneously, accelerating your development timeline and reducing the risk of compatibility issues.

With fewer suppliers involved, you eliminate variables and improve communication. If design changes are needed, tray and lid adjustments happen in parallel, helping you move faster and avoid compatibility issues.

A better fit for complex medical devices

As medical devices become more advanced, their packaging requirements become more demanding. Modern devices need:

  • Secure immobilization
  • Clear visibility and inspection access
  • A reliable sterile barrier
  • Easy, intuitive opening and presentation

Amcor’s integrated tray and lid solutions are designed to meet these needs while reducing supply chain complexity.

Experience the difference

Whether you’re developing orthopaedic implants, cardiovascular devices, surgical instruments, or procedure kits, your packaging supply chain shouldn’t be a bottleneck or a source of risk.

Amcor’s integrated tray and lid capabilities deliver the simplified processes, stronger quality controls, and reliable system performance that medical device manufacturers rely on to compete in today’s market.

Ready to streamline your supply chain?

Connect with Amcor’s healthcare packaging experts to explore how our integrated sterile barrier solutions can support your next project.

Download our Insider's Guide to Sterile Barrier Packaging to learn more about designing packaging systems that protect products, patients, and sterility from manufacturing through point of use.

The Insider’s Guide to Sterile Barrier Packaging

Need more information?

Our global healthcare manufacturing footprint, material science expertise, and know-how across the entire healthcare value chain can provide bespoke thermoformed tray solutions that perfectly meet your needs.

Alternatively, visit our product page to find out more and book a meeting with one of our healthcare packaging experts.

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