What is medical grade Tyvek?
DuPont™ Tyvek® Healthcare Packaging provides the tear resistance, durability, breathability, clean peel and superior microbial barrier to keep medical equipment and pharmaceuticals sterile throughout their lifecycle—protecting the health and well-being of millions without compromise.
What are the disadvantages of Tyvek?
Disadvantages of Tyvek® House Wrap
- Tyvek® House Wrap has a tensile strength of only 30/30 lb/in.
- Similarly, Tyvek® House Wrap has a UV rating of four months.
- Tyvek® House Wrap may have a reverse lap, which can trap water.
What is DuPont Tyvek used for?
Tyvek® is available in both a hard structure, used for HomeWrap envelopes and medical packaging applications, and a soft structure, fabric-like finish used for protective apparel and consumer applications.
Is Tyvek waterproof and breathable?
A: Tyvek® is breathable, which means water vapor and gases can go through Tyvek®. The moisture vapor permeability of Tyvek® is much higher than that of plastic films.
What is Tyvek packaging?
DuPont™ Tyvek® combines the best physical properties of paper, film, and fabric to offer unique advantages for a wide variety of demanding packaging applications. Tyvek® is a family of tough, durable sheet products made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE).
Who makes Tyvek house wrap?
DuPont™ Tyvek
DuPont™ Tyvek® is a unique nonwoven material only from DuPont. Tyvek® is made of 100% high density polyethylene fibers randomly laid and compressed to form a remarkably tough printing substrate that is ideal for applications where durability & tear resistance is of prime importance.
How long does Tyvek last?
Tyvek® CommercialWrap®should be covered within 270 days (9 months).
Is DuPont Tyvek waterproof?
It is completely waterproof, and keeps all of its strength when wet. It is easy to sterilize, and once made into packaging is able to maintain sterile for many years. For this reason, Tyvek material has been used in a vast variety of contexts over the past 60 years.
Is Tyvek slippery?
The agitator will break down the fibers and the Tyvek will be soft, fold easily, and it won’t be noisy. Works great, not slick at all.
Does it matter which side of Tyvek faces out?
Tyvek® HomeWrap® and Tyvek® CommercialWrap® are non-directional and are equally effective if installed with the logo facing the inside or outside of the wall or with the logo oriented in any direction.
Why choose Tyvek® packaging?
No Compromise. Because life matters. DuPont ™ Tyvek ® medical and pharmaceutical packaging provides the tear resistance, durability, breathability, clean peel and superior microbial barrier to keep medical equipment and pharmaceuticals sterile throughout their lifecycle—protecting the health and well-being of millions without compromise.
Why choose Tyvek® 1073b for medical device packaging?
Tyvek ® 1073B provides the highest level of protection, making it the ideal choice for medical device and pharmaceutical packaging that requires high strength and superior microbial barrier. Tyvek ® 1059B provides robust protection for medium-risk, sterile medical packaging applications.
Why Tyvek ® 2Fs ™?
This breathability also allows medical packages made with Tyvek ® 2FS ™ to equilibrate rapidly from the pressure changes that occur not only during shipping but also in storage environments.
What is Tyvek 2Fs™ clean peels?
It also means that Tyvek ® 2FS ™ generates very few airborne particles when sterile form-fill-seal packaging is opened or handled. This clean peel minimizes the risk of introducing particulates into a clean environment.