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BAYER LAUNCHES NEW MEDICAL GRADES.

High Performance Plastics, March, 1998 by MURPHY, JOHN

The world's first lipid-resistant PC resin was one of a number of special grades for medical applications introduced by Bayer Corp at a medical exhibition in the USA. Offering excellent bonding with PVC tubing, Makrolon DP1-1805 helps to alleviate cracking in high-stress applications where there is contact with intravenous fluid products, particularly lipid emulsions.

The PC grade is less expensive than the materials currently used for luers, tubing connectors, Y-site medication ports and other high-stress applications, such as speciality polyurethanes, polyetherimide and polysulphone.

An easy-releasing PC grade, avoiding the need for a mould release spray and so permitting clean room operations, was also launched, with a new thermally-stable ABS, for...

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