(Portalegre, Portugal, 8th October), Evercare®, Evertis’ healthcare packaging brand, can proudly announce it has won the 2025 DuPontTM Tyvek® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Award for Packaging (re)design category. The Tyvek® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Awards is a program that recognizes sustainable innovation throughout the healthcare packaging life cycle. The Packaging (re)design category highlights new approaches that incorporate sustainable materials and processes without compromising patient safety or regulatory compliance.
Evercare®, a brand built on more than 65 years of PET and PETG expertise from Evercare®, introduced the Evercare® Endurance R50 film, an innovative medical-grade packaging material containing up to 50% advanced post-consumer recycled (PCR) content. When paired with Tyvek® lidding, this breakthrough solution delivers the same performance as virgin materials while reducing environmental impact.
“This is an exciting milestone for the us, and the Evercare® brand, as an industry first gets recognized for driving innovation in sustainability. We developed the Endurance R50 film using advanced recycling depolymerization technology supplied by sister company Selenis, ensuring a consistent, medical-grade supply chain with full traceability. The film offers comparable thermoforming, sealing and barrier performance to virgin PETG while meeting regulatory compliance.” says Olivier Brun, Evercare EMEA.
“Through the rigoroustesting process, we knew that when paired with Tyvek®, Endurance R50 creates a sterile barrier packaging that will reduce reliance on virgin fossil fuel-based plastics, and when compared to standard PETG Life Cycle Assessment data confirms a 47% reduction in carbon footprint – supporting the industry to future-proof packaging against evolving regulations.” says Cláudia Gandum, Evercare Product and Regulatory Affairs.
By incorporating up to 50% PCR advanced depolymerized recycled content into healthcare packaging films and ensuring seamless compatibility with Tyvek®, Evercare® has delivered an industry-first solution that advances both performance and sustainability. This breakthrough demonstrates how healthcare packaging can evolve toward a circular economy without compromising patient safety.
For this achievement, Evercare® was named the 2025 DuPontTM Tyvek® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Award winner in the Packaging (re)design category.
About Evertis
Evertis, present in the polymers industry since 1959 and pioneers in PET film extrusion, is a specialist in the production of barrier films for food packaging, and other packaging applications.
With a wide variety of tailor-made solutions in their portfolio, Evertis focuses on supplying films that ensure product safety whilst closing the loop. Evertis envisions a future with increased utilization of recycled content in their films, greater recyclability of their products and the lowest feasible carbon footprint.
Being a global business, with manufacturing sites in Portugal, Brazil, Italy and Mexico, Evertis is devoted to playing a role in society’s collective response to the global plastic waste challenge, through recycling education programs as well as jointly working across the value chain to create tangible solutions. Their mission is to develop future-fit packaging that meets the highest expectations of clients and end consumers in terms of food safety, functionality and circularity.
About Evercare®
Evercare® provides the healthcare industry with an extensive portfolio of specialty and innovative medical-grade films designed to provide superior performance and support regulatory compliance.
Our innovative polyester (PET and PETG) based solutions offer performance and sustainability advantages when compared to other materials. Evercare® films facilitate the thermoforming process, provide improved mechanical and optical properties, and have a better resistance to sterilization. Additionally, our Evercare® films can incorporate advanced chemical recycled content to help you meet your sustainability goals without sacrificing quality and regulatory.
Our films are manufactured in strict compliance with GMP standards, with a track record of 65+ years developing polyester films for regulated applications. To support your regulatory compliance needs, Evercare® films are offered with declarations such as ISO10993, USP661.1, ISO11607, as well as change notification.