Polyolefin non-PVC bags for IV solutions.

The most important thing is health of a patient!

In our days, leading manufacturers of pharmaceutical field control quality of their products worldwide.
Creation of new harmless components allows manufacturers to minimize influence of harmful substances contained in materials.

In that way non-PVC material came instead of PVC. Non-PVC materials contain polyolefin group and the most known: Polypropylene and Polyethylene.

For packing, transportation and storing of infusion solutions Russian manufacturers have always been using glass bottles. However European, Eastern countries and USA already have been using new progressive and comfortable type of packaging – bags.

What is better? Bag or bottle?

Comparative analysis:

Glass bottles advantages:
1. Transparency
2. Low level of reactivity (Glass does not absorb and does not excrete inclusive chemical elements and admixtures)
3. Has very good hydrolytic resistance for water and oxygen (low penetration degree)
4. Sterilized under 121° C

Glass bottles disadvantages:
1. Fragility
2. Minimum design (to design manufacturer has to all production line)
3. Big quantity of working operations (essential consumption of energy resources and human resources during production)
4. Complicated and multi-stage washing process
5. Absorption of some preparations, inner surface coating creation
6. Rigidity – impossibility to make injection under pressure
7. Large weight and size cause inconvenience while storing and transportation

Non-PVC bags advantages:
1. Do not contain harmful substances (Chlorine)
2. Transparency (modern technologies allow to make polyolefin materials having high coefficient of transparency)
3. Maximum design (design can be discussed and innovative choice will not cause great costs and s in production line)
4. High mechanical resistance (bags are stable to many mechanical effects)
5. Sterilized under 121 ° C
6. Possibility to make injection under pressure
7. Bag is fully impermeable (there is no chance of air hit)
8. Less used material (during bag manufacturing process producer use less materials then during production of glass bottles and PVC bags)
9. Diminished quantity of working operations (have effect in economy of energy and human resources)
10. Low weight and size make storage and transportation comfortable
11. Do not cause pollution to the environment (innovative materials are absolutely biodegradable)
12. Safe and simple use

Since proceeding from PVC to non-PVC products will take some time, we would like to point some disadvantages of PVC goods in the comparison with non-PVC.

Disadvantages of PVC products:
1. CONTAIN harmful substances (Chlorine)
2. Have low level of resistance for water and air
3. May interact with solutions (there is a risk of partly absorption of preparations and plasticizers ablation)
4. High demands of environment protection (PVC is not biodegradable)