MEDICAL | MATERIALS
MD&M highlights Clariant will use the forthcoming MD&M West exhibition in the USA to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the launch of its Mevopur medical- grade materials. A new branding scheme, called ‘Color of
Innovation’, which is launched globally in conjunc- tion with the anniversary, aims to capture the nature of the Mevopur family – which includes compounds, concentrates, regulatory support and more. All Mevopur materials – including colour and additive concentrates and ‘ready-to-use’ polymer compounds – are made at three dedicated EN:ISO13485-2016 registered facilities. These have been pre-tested to support compliance needs of customers in US and Europe. In just the last few years, Clariant has boosted compounding capacity at its plant in Lewiston, Maine (USA) – and will soon announce expansions in Asia. “We apply multi-industry problem-solving exper-
tise grounded in deep technical and regulatory knowledge to help ensure the safety, compliance and performance of our customers’ products,” said Steve Duckworth, global head of marketing and business development at Clariant. Meanwhile, Polyplastics is to show its latest
material offering for the medical and healthcare market at the show. As well as a new series of acetal materials – for injection moulding – it will show its Topas cyclic olefin copolymer (COC). COC is a clear material that offers a range of properties – including stiffness and barrier resistance. It is used for a variety of applications, including pharmaceuti- cal blisters and trays.
Packaging range Tekni-Plex will show a range of medical device films, as well as adhesive and extrusion laminations at MD&M West. For thermoformable rigid medical device tray applications, the company will show its TekniMD
Left: Clariant is launching a new branding initiative on the tenth
anniversary of launching its Mevopur range
PXA structure – a lamination of its proprietary PX film and Aclar. It is aimed at products that require an enhanced moisture barrier.
Also suitable for thermoformable medical device
applications is TekniMD
COC.PG, a PETG/COC/ PETG coextrusion. Both TekniMD films structures can be sterilised using gamma, EtO or e-beam and are available in clear, white or blue tint. The company’s healthcare packaging business-
es (Tekni-Plex Flexibles, Tekni-Films, Lameplast, LF of America and Beyers Plastics) make flexible packaging for the medical device and pharmaceu- tical markets at nine manufacturing plants in North America and Europe. Separate to this, Tekni-Plex announced it was bringing all its medical brands – Colorite, Natvar and Dunn – into a single division called Tekni-Plex Medical. The business will supply medical products, including specialist compounds and tubing, to medical device manufacturers from a single source. Its sales team will represent all product lines. Manufacturing will be done at the same loca-
tions, and the Colorite, Natvar and Dunn will continue be used as product brands. Colorite includes PVC and TPE medical-grade compounds; Natvar is known for multi-layer and multi-lumen tubing, and other extruded products; and Dunn makes precision tubing for catheters and minimally invasive devices.
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Left: Tekni-Plex offers a range of thermoformed medical products
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