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Dordan is featured in a Plastics Today article and interview filmed at MD&M West! 

Executive Vice President, Aric Slavin, stands beside his son and Account Executive, Julian, discussing the addition of a new thermoforming machine inside its ISO Class 8 cleanroom. This equipment doubles Dordan's cleanroom production capacity to meet the demands of its growing medical customer base. 

The article paints a picture of Dordan's thermoforming capabilities in the medical packaging space, noting how it is positioned as an ideal supplier with domestic supply chains, precision manufacturing, and family-owned values.

📹 See the father-and-son duo represent Dordan at MD&M West in this video interview.

📖 Read the full article here!

Our cleanroom is now in full production with the new machine producing medical trays, blisters, and surgical kits. Constructed in 2018, Dordan's cleanroom is a controlled environment ideal for manufacturing medical packaging for sterile applications. Certified ISO 13485:2016 in 2024, Dordan offers packaging solutions for medical device safety and efficacy, material handling, and the user experience.

We have completed the installation of our new Kiefel thermoforming machine in our ISO Class 8 cleanroom! Watch the entire process-- from machine staging to full production-- in this video documenting a week's worth of labor in 45 seconds. This machine doubles our cleanroom capacity, which manufactures packaging like medical device trays, blisters, and surgical kits in a controlled environment.

Enjoy, and sound on!

A recent feature in Plastics Today explores how production environments, regulatory classifications, and process validations shape the way medical packaging is designed and manufactured. I was grateful for the opportunity to share Dordan’s perspective on how we approach quality as an ISO 13485:2016 certified medical thermoformer.

As the Midwest’s leading medtech trade show, MD&M Midwest connects medical device engineers, buyers, and manufacturers with innovations in packaging, automation, materials, and design. It’s a valuable event for healthcare professionals involved in product development, regulatory compliance, and supply chain optimization.

MD&M Minneapolis begins Wednesday, October 16th, bringing togethers innovators from across the med tech supply chain to discuss the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing the medical sector. 

MN, Minneapolis—Oct. 16-17^th, 2024—Medical packaging thermoforming company Dordan Manufacturing to distribute technical medical packaging briefs at Medical Design and Manufacturing, part of the Advanced Manufacturing Conference and Expo. MD&M brings together medtech professionals across the supply chain, sharing the latest innovations and trends.

There are two standard formats for medical packaging, pouches and thermoformed trays. Thermoformed trays offer product protection and orientation, workflow organization (if a procedural kit), and ease and grace of opening. Pouches provide a sterile barrier, but do not provide the same structural protection to medical products, nor do they offer a controlled opening experience, when compared with thermoformed trays.