The agreement makes Cardinal Health the exclusive manufacturer of SRI Surgical’s complete line of more than 400 disposable surgical kits. In addition, the agreement provides for the development of a new product offering, the Hybrid Preference Pack, in which SRI Surgical will combine its reusable surgical components with disposable surgical components from Cardinal Health. This new product will couple the convenience of disposables with the waste-wise benefits of reusable products.
SRI Surgical will deliver, reprocess and retrieve Hybrid Preference Packs on a daily basis for customers through its 10 reprocessing plants and four distribution centers located throughout the US. Cardinal Health will manufacture the disposable surgical components for Hybrid Preference Packs at its network of four kit manufacturing facilities.
Steve Inacker, president and general manager of Cardinal Health’s presource products and services business, said: Cardinal Health’s strategic alliance with SRI Surgical will provide hospitals with a broader range of environmentally responsible product alternatives to address their needs in the operating room.
In particular, SRI Surgical’s expertise in reprocessing enables Cardinal Health to offer customers the choice of disposable or reusable products within their surgical kits.