The Physics & Science of Sealing

Tyvek® Medical & Pharmaceutical Packaging Webinar

During the transition protocol, DuPont made and opened 1.1 million packages to ensure transition Tyvek® would be functionally equivalent in its peel performance to legacy Tyvek®. This presentation covers the physics of seal testing.

Recorded live on June 3, 2020

Speaker: Jose Arevalo

Jose Arevalo is Global Business Development Manager for DuPont Tyvek® Medical Packaging. During his 15-year tenure at DuPont he has enhanced and driven medical packaging competency in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining DuPont Jose held various technical and marketing management positions for global leaders in the packaging, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Jose earned his Master of Science in Packaging from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Moderator: Jen Benolken, CPPL

Jennifer Benolken, CPPL, is the Western Region Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Manufacturer and Regulatory Specialist with DuPont Tyvek® Medical Packaging; she works with downstream customers at medical device and pharmaceutical organizations, providing education and answering questions about Tyvek® packaging and sterilization. Jen has worked in the medical device community since 1991 in a variety of packaging related roles - packaging/labeling/sterilization engineer (in both operations and R&D roles), flexible packaging sales representative, and manager of packaging engineering and labeling groups.

While Jen earned her undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Kettering University (Flint, MI), she came to love packaging through her collegiate co-operative work experience at CPI/Guidant. Jen furthered her education by obtaining a Masters of International Management degree from St. Thomas University (St. Paul, MN). She is currently the sub-committee chairperson for ASTM F02.50, Package Design and Development, as well as co-chair for AAMI’s ST/WG 7, Packaging Working Group, the US’s mirror group to ISO TC198/WG7. Jen is also an active member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) where she attained her lifetime Certified Packaging Professional (CPPL) certification in 2012. As part of IoPP, Jennifer has recently been elected to the Board of Directors and is also Vice Chair on its Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee (MDPTC) board. Jennifer is currently working with industry leaders as the editor for the upcoming 3rd edition of the Medical Device Packaging Handbook.