Monday, January 23rd, 2012
PVC's reputation has seen its up and downs, despite recent technical developments that could make PVC both safer and greener. Now PVC is under fire again by US health provider Kaiser Permanente, which is banning the use of PVC in tubing and bags.
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Last week, UBM Canon Director of Content Richard Nass blogged about his conversation with eZassi CEO Peter von Dyck. The conversation focused on how US venture capitalists are increasingly endorsing launching medtech products in Europe before launching in the United States. The reason is that European companies usually require less ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Last week, the medical trade fair Medica and the medical manufacturing supplier trade fair Compamed took place, attracting visitors from around the world.
At Medica, the German packaging supplier PolyCine introduced a processing technique that blocks migration of plasticisers from PVC. EMDT Editor in Chief Norbert Sparrow spoke with PolyCine's Head ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
PolyOne Corp., a provider of specialised polymer materials, services and solutions, will exhibit a newly expanded portfolio of specialised solutions for the healthcare industry at Compamed 2011. Building on the company’s growing mix of healthcare materials, services and solutions, this portfolio now includes new colourants for its Dow Health+ polymers ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_21649" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Ian Wands, Market Development Technologist, Medical and Pharmaceutical, DuPont Performance Polymers."][/caption]
Exhibiting for the first time at Pharmapack in Paris, DuPont Performance Polymers was unswervingly on message. “The exhibitor list certainly attracted our attention,” notes Ian Wands, Market Development Technologist, Medical and Pharmaceutical, at DuPont ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
SABIC Innovative Plastics today announced that GE Healthcare has selected Valox resin for the housing and Xylex resin for the storage bins of its new Optima XR220amx1 mobile x-ray machine to meet the increasing demands placed on medical equipment. According to a press release issued by SABIC, these high-performance resins helped ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Glass or plastic? In the prefillable syringe (PFS) market, the answer increasingly will be plastic, according to medtech consultancy Greystone Associates. While PFS suppliers continue to compete for customers in a sector reporting double-digit annual unit growth, leading companies are quietly manoeuvring to gain advantage in the next major PFS ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
From the Wire: Scientists have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticisers — the source of long-standing human health concerns — from migrating from one of the most widely used groups of plastics. The advance could lead to a new generation of polyvinyl chloride ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The next health scare involving plastics likely will be over the use of phthalates, according to a recent article on ZDNet. The plasticisers are used in medical tubing, dialysis bags, clothing and building materials. While BPA is made by condensing phenol and acetone in the presence of an acid, phthalates ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
At the Medical Moulding & Extrusion Conference in Cologne, Germany, last month I learned about plasticizers, PVC, DEHP, TEHTM, polyolefins, and more. Aside from how DEHP-plasticized PVC influences the blood, its negative health effects, and how difficult it is to replace, I heard about something else relating to plastics that ...
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