Trinseo (NYSE: TSE) a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, is targeting the medical devices market with its biocompatible glass-filled polycarbonate resins. Trinseo’s CALIBRE™ 5000 series is an ideal material for metal substitution not only because of its strength and stiffness, but its added advantages of aesthetics, ergonomic improvements, and potential cost savings.
“As minimally-invasive surgeries increase and cost pressures continue to mount, Trinseo’s glass-filled polycarbonate is ideal for a variety of surgical tools and surgery access instruments,” said Arthas Yang, global marketing manager in Trinseo’s Performance Plastics business. “The material can be incorporated into a variety of applications, according to design and regulatory requirements, and can help manufacturers with their goals of lowering cost and increasing speed-to-market.”
Glass-filled materials have been used in numerous application areas for years. What differentiates Trinseo’s CALIBRE™ 5000 series is the fact that it has undergone extensive biocompatibility testing according to ISO 10993 standards to provide medical device manufacturers with added assurance of compliancy and patient safety.
The CALIBRE™ 5000 series offers the following:
From an aesthetic perspective the material can be colored for branding and parts-identification purposes. Due to its processability and the design flexibility it allows, parts can be consolidated for cost savings and simplified assembly, reducing the number of seams and crevasses where bacteria can grow.
Trinseo has supported the medical devices market for three decades. The company offers a variety of plastics under the brands CALIBRE™ and CALIBRE™ MEGARAD™ Polycarbonate Resins, EMERGE™ Advanced Resins, MAGNUM™ ABS Resins, and STYRON™ Polystyrene Resins. Thermoplastic elastomers offered by Trinseo for soft-touch medical applications are MEGOL™ MED TPS-SEBS Compounds and RAPLAN™ MED TPS-SBS Compounds.
About Trinseo
Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a specialty material solutions provider, partners with companies to bring ideas to life in an imaginative, smart, and sustainability-focused manner by combining its premier expertise, forward-looking innovations and best-in-class materials to unlock value for companies and consumers.
From design to manufacturing, Trinseo taps into decades of experience in diverse material solutions to address customers’ unique challenges in a wide range of industries, including consumer goods, mobility, building and construction, and medical.
Trinseo’s approximately 3,400 employees bring endless creativity to reimagining the possibilities with clients all over the world from the company’s locations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Trinseo reported net sales of approximately $4.8 billion in 2021. Discover more by visiting www.trinseo.com and connecting with Trinseo on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and WeChat.
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