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Evonik Launches Care Product Lines Designed Specifically For Medical Market

 

Polymer’s Biocompatibility, Chemical Resistance Excellent For Medical Devices

 

Evonik Corporation launched VESTAMID® Care, TROGAMID® Care and VESTAKEEP® Care product lines of high-performance polymers, which are designed specifically for use in medical devices.

 

The properties of VESTAMID® Care, TROGAMID® Care and VESTAKEEP® Care polymers include high elasticity, impact and chemical resistance, and durability, making them excellent materials for medical devices including catheters, surgical instruments and hearing aids.

 

TROGAMID® Care is an excellent material
for hearing aids due to its high chemical resistance.

 

“Evonik works closely with its customers to develop materials which meet application requirements and market needs,” said Jeff Smith, vice president and general manager of Evonik’s High Performance Polymers business line. “Evonik is one of the leaders in polymer design technology and assists its customers throughout the product development process. We created these product lines to help our customers’ meet their medical device manufacturing needs.”

 

Care products are biocompatible and are customized depending on the technical requirements of the medical device based on characteristics such as either flexible or rigid, and either transparent or translucent.

 

http://north-america.evonik.com/region/north_america/en/
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New Silicone Film From Wacker For Wound Dressing

 

Wacker, the Germany-based chemical group, launched a silicone film for medical applications at Compamed 2013. Silpuran Film can be used as a flexible wound dressing, as a breathable membrane or as a dielectric elastomer in sensors and artificial muscles.

 

Also launched at the show was Silpuran Aux 8250 RO, a silicone masterbatch containing a barium sulphate contrast medium for formulating silicone compounds for radio-opaque tubes and catheters.

 

Silpuran Film consists of an ultrapure silicone rubber and is produced in thicknesses down to 20 microns. The films are manufactured under cleanroom conditions to avoid the risk of contamination. It is free of organic plasticisers and stabilisers and has passed selected tests for biocompatibility according to ISO 10993 and US Pharmacopeia Class VI. It is chemically inert, heat-resistant, flexible at low temperatures, elastic, tear-resistant and permeable to gas but not to water.

 

Silpuran Aux 8250 RO has a barium sulphate content of 75%. Compounding incorporates the masterbatch into the silicone material directly, without additional processing. The company claims that because the contrast medium comes predispersed in silicone, Silpuran Aux 8250 RO mixes much more easily.

 

http://www.europeanplasticsnews.com/subscriber/
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