Caption: New UL certification for Bergamid™ high-performance solutions helps manufacturers meet global standards for outdoor electrical devices.

Managing heat in molded interconnect devices with specialty thermoplastics

For example, an LED lighting demonstration available at the stand offers an alternative to plasma metallizing for the molded interconnect device (MID), a critical LED component.

Surgical instruments and medical device components

With Avient’s assistance and experience in medical device applications, the manufacturer immediately realized the following lifts:

With Avient’s assistance and experience in medical device applications, the manufacturer immediately realized the following lifts:

With Avient’s assistance and experience in medical device applications, the manufacturer immediately realized the following lifts:

Mobile Devices Inhalation Devices IVD Devices

Additionally, Avient’s ISO 13485 manufacturing site in Singapore for its Mevopur™ formulations recently achieved ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for Biological Evaluation of Medical Devices–Part 5: Tests for In-Vitro Cytotoxicity.  Cesa™ Low Retention Additives for Healthcare: formulations that can repel water and other liquids that deliver the last drop out of a package or devices such as pipette tips to change surface retention performance and enable fast evacuation.

Other categories of antimicrobial applications within the plastics family include medical devices and technolo- gies for odor prevention and aesthetics preservation. To reduce the incidence of device-associated infections, antimicrobial technologies have been utilized in a variety of ways ranging from bulk-imbedded additives to sur- face grafting techniques.[13,14] In particular, silver-based additive technologies are frequently explored for healthcare applications due to their favorable toxicological profiles and broader regulatory approvals, while silver nanoparticles with controlled, long-term release profiles continue to be a very active and promising area of biomedi- cal research.[15-19] In textile segments such as sports active- wear, biocides are used to prevent the growth of odor- causing bacteria from perspiration.[20,21] Additionally, high-end recreational products such as boats utilize bio- cides to preserve the aesthetics of PVC products used for seat covers since bacterial growth may lead to pink staining caused by specific bacterial metabolites.[22,23] With respect to the mechanism of action, many antimicrobial products work by attacking enzymes common to a variety of microbes, interfering with membrane transport processes (e.g., importing environmental copper into the cells) as well as interfering with iron metabolism pathways.[24,25] Herein, an assortment of both rigid and flexible resins/ compounds will be evaluated for susceptibility to determine whether particular resin chemistries or compounds are inherently vulnerable to microbial growth and subsequent degradation or other deleterious effects. It should be noted that some property deviations may also be contributed in part by the carrier used to deliver the ZPT as well as experimental error.