Styrenics company, INEOS Styrolution, will present its product highlights Styrolux and the Novodur development grade at the K 2016 trade fair for plastics and rubber in October.
K 2016
Styrolux aims to offer high performance rations and cost effectiveness, making it attractive to the healthcare industry. Its applications range from IV bags to drip chambers, lab-ware and drainage containers.
Its Novodur development grade is characterised by improved clinical resistance against hospital cleaners. This improvement could benefit the environmental stress cracking resistance when exposed to state of the art cleaners and disinfectants.
Pieter Bekaert, head of healthcare at INEOS Styrolution said: “Styrolux materials are extremely resistant to gamma or electron beam irradiation sterilisation methods that often cause side effects to products such as significant temporary color change and physical-mechanical property loss.”
This is important as sterilisation of medical tools is a process that is required for many medical procedures to prevent infections and contamination.
Common sterilisation methods, like gamma-radiation, E-beam NO2, or EtO sterilisation can be applied to medical parts made from selected styrenics.
Styrenics are particularly attractive to healthcare solution providers for their unsurpassed ratio of high performance and cost-effectiveness.