PVC is the most widely used polymer to manufacture single-use medical devices and will retain that position for the foreseeable future, according to a new study from Global Market Insights. The ...
Hospitals are beginning drives to replace polyvinyl chloride in intravenous tubing and film bags. It's not clear, however, that the technology is immediately ready to step up to the plate with ...
Stay informed on North American medical plastics price trends for February 2026. Explore how feedstock volatility and ...
PARIS -- In December 2012 the French senate passed a law unilaterally banning the use of tubing containing di (2-ethyhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) from pediatric, neonatal and maternity wards. The ban will ...
The British Plastics Federation's (BPF) PVC take-back program RecoMed, which collects medical equipment for recycling. has now been rolled out to seven hospitals in the United Kingdom. RecoMed, ...
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Aug. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ICU Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: ICUI) today announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with Grifols to distribute a full line of non-PVC/non ...
Dynamic Modifiers' brand of thermoplastic olefins serves as a comparable, nontoxic replacement for PVC. Over the years, use of flexible PVC in such medical applications as IV bags and tubing has ...
The Vinyl Institute of Canada, Toronto, has launched PVC 123, a medical polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling pilot partnership. The pilot received funding support from Environment and Climate Change ...
Thermoplastic films have been used in flexible medical product applications since the 1960s, when plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blood storage bags replaced glass bottles. 1 In the 1970s, PVC ...
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kraton Polymers LLC (Kraton), a leading global producer of engineered polymers, announces its commercialization of Kraton G1645, a polymer that creates new opportunities to ...
To conduct an extensive literature and toxicological database review on substitute compounds and available alternative medical products to replace polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and/or di(2-ethylhexyl) ...
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Global Compounds and Westlake Dimex, business units of Westlake Corporation (NYSE: WLK), today announced the launch of “Choose Pink,” a pilot polyvinyl chloride (PVC ...