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In regulated healthcare manufacturing, sterilization is only one part of the product lifecycle. The period that follows, between sterilization and distribution, is equally critical to preserving product integrity, compliance, and supply chain continuity.
To address this essential phase, Medistri introduces STERIDOCK™, an integrated post-sterilization storage solution designed for medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. STERIDOCK™ ensures that sterilized products remain protected, compliant, and accessible until they are ready to move forward in the supply chain, while minimizing unnecessary handling and logistical complexity.
A Natural Extension of the Sterilization Process
STERIDOCK™ is designed to function as a seamless continuation of Medistri’s sterilization services. By allowing products to remain on-site immediately after sterilization, the number of transfers is reduced and sterility assurance is maintained within a controlled, validated environment. This approach helps limit contamination risks while preserving product integrity from processing through to distribution.
For validated customers, storage is offered on a flexible, per-pallet basis, making STERIDOCK™ suitable for both short-term buffering and longer-term inventory strategies.
Why Choose STERIDOCK™?
STERIDOCK™ supports continuity, efficiency, and compliance across the post-sterilization phase. Keeping products within Medistri’s controlled infrastructure reduces transport movements and handling steps, while ensuring consistent quality oversight from sterilization to dispatch.
The service also contributes to cost and time efficiency by supporting just-in-time inventory strategies and high-volume storage needs. Validated customers benefit from real-time inventory visibility through a personalized dashboard, enabling transparent tracking and simplified coordination.
All storage activities are aligned with regulatory requirements and supported by comprehensive documentation. This ensures audit readiness and full traceability, providing confidence during inspections and regulatory reviews.
Storage Environments Adapted to Your Products
STERIDOCK™ offers multiple storage environments designed to match the specific requirements of different healthcare products. Temperature-sensitive products can be maintained in cold storage with continuous monitoring to ensure stable conditions. For products requiring standard room-temperature conditions, ambient storage solutions are available, including extended options through trusted third-party partners. For more sensitive materials, climate-controlled environments provide stable temperature and humidity, while custom storage configurations can be developed in close collaboration with your teams to meet precise technical or logistical requirements.
Operational Control and Added Services
STERIDOCK™ combines secure storage with operational support to simplify downstream logistics. Customers have access to real-time inventory tracking via a dedicated dashboard, offering clear oversight of stored lots and pallets. Medistri’s logistics team can coordinate on-demand dispatch when products are ready to ship, ensuring smooth transitions to the next supply chain stage.
Security and monitoring systems operate around the clock to safeguard stored products. For customers who choose not to use on-site storage, Medistri provides automated notifications as soon as sterilization is complete, enabling timely collection without delays.
Optimizing the Post-Sterilization Phase
Developed to meet the demands of regulated healthcare manufacturing, STERIDOCK™ helps reduce logistical complexity while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance. By integrating storage directly after sterilization, Medistri supports safer product handling, improved supply chain efficiency, and greater operational flexibility.
To learn how STERIDOCK™ can be integrated into your supply chain or to discuss your specific storage requirements, please contact your dedicated Customer Success Specialist or contact us at customerservice@medistri.com.
Medistri Solutions for Product in Industrialization Phase
In the industrialisation phase, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence become paramount to sustain high-volume production, maintain consistent quality, and ensure uninterrupted supply to the market.
Medistri serves as your long-term, fully integrated infrastructure partner, delivering a robust portfolio of in-house services optimised for routine commercial manufacturing and ongoing compliance.
Our solutions include routine sterilization services, validation review and maintenance, issuance of sterilization CO₂ certificates, routine laboratory services, environmental monitoring, kit packing services, post-sterilization storage, picking, packing, and shipping, as well as dedicated audit support services.
By controlling the entire production and quality assurance chain within our facilities, Medistri eliminates external dependencies, guarantees process consistency and full traceability, minimises downtime risks, and supports seamless scaling.
allowing your team to focus on optimising product performance, expanding market reach, and driving long-term commercial success with confidence.
Medistri is Europe's leading independent contract sterilisation company, founded in 2006 and headquartered in the heart of Switzerland. We are a global player providing essential infrastructure that powers healthcare innovation worldwide.
We serve customers of all sizes, from startups, university projects, and research institutes to Fortune 500 corporations, across Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical Packaging, and Biotech.
Medistri supports products at every stage of the lifecycle: pre-clinical development, go-to-market, and full industrialisation.
Our fully integrated, end-to-end in-house solution allows our customers to focus on what matters most: engineering, innovation, and development, while we manage the critical backend processes.
Our synchronised departments work together to provide a complete stack of services:
- Contract Sterilisation & Validation Services
- Contract Laboratory Services
- Contract Manufacturing Services
- Logistics Services
- Consulting Services
We help you accelerate time-to-market, reduce barriers to scale, and deliver safer, more sustainable healthcare solutions to patients around the world.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is post-sterilization storage and why is it critical in regulated manufacturing?
Post-sterilization storage refers to the controlled holding of products after sterilization and before distribution. This phase is critical because improper handling or storage can compromise sterility, documentation integrity, or regulatory compliance.
2. Why is STERIDOCK™ positioned as an extension of the sterilization process?
STERIDOCK™ allows products to remain within a validated and controlled environment immediately after sterilization. By reducing transfers and handling steps, this approach helps preserve sterility assurance and minimizes contamination and logistical risks.
3. How does STERIDOCK™ support regulatory compliance and audit readiness?
All storage activities are performed under defined conditions and supported by traceable documentation. This ensures that storage conditions, inventory status, and product movements can be clearly demonstrated during inspections, audits, or regulatory reviews.
4. When should manufacturers consider using post-sterilization storage services?
Post-sterilization storage is particularly valuable when products are not shipped immediately after processing or when manufacturers operate just-in-time or buffered inventory strategies. It is also useful for managing high-volume production or coordinating staggered distribution schedules.
5. How does Medistri integrate STERIDOCK™ into its broader manufacturing and logistics services?
Medistri integrates STERIDOCK™ with sterilization, quality oversight, and logistics coordination to provide continuous control from processing through dispatch. Through monitored storage environments, real-time inventory visibility, and coordinated release, Medistri supports product integrity, compliance, and supply chain efficiency.