Electro-Medical Equipment
Materials for Electronic Healthcare Devices
Whether it’s stationary or portable or it’s large or small, electro-medical equipment contains many parts sensitive to the working environment. From mammography machines to handheld ultrasound scanners, your medical equipment needs to be protected from excessive UV rays, electrical interference and extreme temperatures, as well as the harmful effects to the equipment of hospital disinfectants and other chemicals. The expertise available from Avient can help you understand which functional materials stand up to harsh medical use conditions so that the equipment can be durable.
Highlights
- Platform for device control identification
- Access to internal components
- Chemical resistance from disinfectants
Technologies
| Engineered Polymer Formulations |
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| Colorant Chromatics™ X-Ray Opaque Formulations |
Resources
| NAME | CATEGORY | DESCRIPTION | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cesa™ WithStand™ Antimicrobial Solutions - Product Bulletin | Product Bulletin | Technology description, key characteristics, markets and applications | View |
| Colorants & Additives for Healthcare - Application Bulletin | Application Bulletin | Essential polymer solutions for critical healthcare applications | View |
| How TPEs Can Help Medical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Meet Growing Global Demand - White Paper | White Paper | This whitepaper details how TPEs can be used to meet global demand for healthcare devices and apparatus | View |
| Material Selection for Four Healthcare Environments - White Paper | White Paper | Find out which materials make sense for your products, no matter where they’re used | View |
| Medical Device Disinfection: How to Prevent Cracking and Crazing | Technical Literature | Understand the material compatibility with common disinfectants of various materials used in healthcare applications | View |
| Next-Generation TPE Technologies for Medical Devices - White Paper | White Paper | Medical challenges, TPEs for barrier technologies, soft and clear temperature-resistant TPEs and overmolding | View |
| OnCap™ HC Additives for Healthcare - Product Bulletin | Product Bulletin | Learn about additives are specially formulated to meet material performance requirements in today’s healthcare environments | View |
| OnColor™ HC Plus - Product Bulletin | Product Bulletin | Polymer colorants formulated specifically for healthcare product applications | View |
| Resilience™ HC for Medical Device Housings - Application Bulletin | Application Bulletin | Benefits, properties, and effects of using Resilience™ HC for polymer housings on medical devices | View |
| Therapy Device - Case Study | Case Study | Versalloy™ used to provide brand distinction and durability for BiowavePRO® non-invasive neuromodulation system | View |
| Thermoplastic Elastomers in Medical Devices - White Paper | White Paper | Safety factors, barrier properties and applications of TPEs in medical devices | View |
