Strong plastic trio for medical needs

The Exolon Group’s Med range has a new addi­tion: Inspria® Med, made of East­man Tri­tan™ copoly­ester. The sol­id sheets for med­ical appli­ca­tions com­ple­ment the Exolon® Med and Vivak® Med sheet mate­ri­als. “By expand­ing our range of sheets for med­ical require­ments, we can now cov­er a wide range of appli­ca­tions with our mate­r­i­al,” says Jens Beck­er, CEO of Exolon Group. Appli­ca­tions for Exolon Group’s Med prod­uct fam­i­ly range from den­tal splints and rigid med­ical pack­ag­ing to con­tain­ers and trays for med­ical devices.

The new addi­tion can be ther­mo­formed with extreme draw ratios and high impres­sion repro­ducibil­i­ty, mak­ing it suit­able for the pro­duc­tion of den­tal splints, among oth­er appli­ca­tions. The clear trans­par­ent plates made of copoly­ester are also made for strong tem­per­a­ture dif­fer­ences: they can with­stand tem­per­a­tures of up to 90 °C and are easy to process. The mate­r­i­al is suit­able for var­i­ous ster­il­iza­tion meth­ods, includ­ing gam­ma radi­a­tion and eth­yl­ene oxide.

Vivak® Med, made from East­man Eas­t­ar 6763, is ide­al for ther­mo­formed con­tain­ers and trays for med­ical devices and skin con­tact appli­ca­tions, such as pros­the­ses. The mate­r­i­al can be rapid­ly ther­mo­formed with low ener­gy con­sump­tion, short pro­duc­tion cycles, extreme elon­ga­tion lev­els and accu­rate repro­duc­tion of the mold sur­face with­out pre-drying.

The poly­car­bon­ate prod­uct is high­ly impact resis­tant and suit­able for rigid pack­ag­ing and trans­par­ent pro­tec­tive devices on med­ical devices. Exolon® Med sheets can be eas­i­ly ther­mo­formed, cold bent and machined. They can with­stand tem­per­a­tures up to 120 °C.

Safe and traceable to the raw material

All Med-Range prod­ucts are made from 100% vir­gin mate­r­i­al that meets the require­ments of ISO 10993 for the bio­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of med­ical devices. The plates are pro­duced accord­ing to the rules of good man­u­fac­tur­ing prac­tice (GMP). The man­u­fac­tur­ing process is sub­ject to con­stant con­trol by a qual­i­ty man­age­ment sys­tem that com­plies with the ISO 9001:2015 stan­dard. Proces­sors can thus trace the sheet mate­r­i­al down to the raw mate­r­i­al — an impor­tant basis for fur­ther doc­u­men­ta­tion of future end products.