DuPont has expanded its sterile operations via an addition to its healthcare manufacturing facility in Heredia, Costa Rica. 

This new manufacturing site serves healthcare customers in the Caribbean and across the Americas. The Heredia operation has expanded by 16,000 square feet. 

The new expansion is ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, with its technical, assembly, and packaging staff adhering to the highest quality standards and protocols. Also, the facility is operating on a 24/7 production schedule.

The new space accommodates additional extrusion equipment and production lines, enabling the production of sterile packaging, such as pouches, header bags, and lids, ultimately increasing DuPont’s extruded tubing production capacity.

This enables the site to produce sterile packaging for the global medical device industry while increasing the capacity of the site’s existing medical tubing operations.

“With this expansion, we are now the first company in Costa Rica and the Caribbean to produce fluid management and sterile packaging offerings for the medical device industry,” said James Chambers, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Fluids & Flexibles at Spectrum Plastics Group, A DuPont Business.