Speciality polyolefin grades for healthcare moulding and packaging applications

06-Dec-05

The answer to the growing need for speciality polyolefins grades in healthcare moulding and packaging applications has come from Borealis. Borealis has developed the Bormed* family of dedicated healthcare polyolefins to satisfy the demand from the pharmaceutical industry for consistency of quality and appropriateness for healthcare applications. The Bormed range comprises polypropylene (PP), low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) grades precisely tailored for the injection and blow moulding of medical devices as well as pharmaceutical and diagnostics packaging. Properties and characteristics of Bormed include radiation resistance, transparency and chemical inertness to sterilisability at 121°C and high Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance (ESCR). These performance features, combined with ease of shaping and processing, open up the broadest range of applications, including single use syringes, needle hubs and catheters, and the housings of artificial kidneys and inhalers. In pharmaceutical packaging Bormed materials meet the needs of blow, fill and seal containers such as bottles, bags and ampoules for IV sterile liquids as well as blow and injection moulded packaging such as bottles, containers and closures.