Medical Devices & Medical Packaging
Posted on: Saturday, 22 October 2005, 03:01 CDT
By Anonymous
There are new polymers offering advantages for the latest in both medical devices and medical packaging. As Richard Stewart discusses in this month's cover feature, the latest high-performing polymers along with innovative processing methods are expanding the opportunities for plastics in the medical industry. Rising medical costs have brought about a demand and a challenge for lower-cost, higher-quality alternative plastic devices and packages. The plastics industry accepted the challenge, heeded the call, and came up with new applications from disposables to implantables that meet the medical industry's cost/quality demand. See page 20.
SPE Voices
SPE's President and Executive Director are joined by SPE member Jeremy Fennelly in another installment of SPE Voices. The topic is one that affects the Society and its future: internationalism. For years the Society has seen itself as an international organization: the Society has members outside the U.S.'s borders, and we've had many events staged in other countries and on other continents, but the Society's presence in Europe and notably Asia has come under scrutiny by SPE's leadership. The assertion is that the Society must begin to embrace the geographical change taking place in the physical and intellectual development of technology.
Technology is being developed, manufacturing, both processing and part production, is taking place at an incredible rate of growth in countries including China and India as well as Brazil and Mexico. SPE has made inroads in each of these countries, but continues to focus on its U.S. and Canada markets with an ongoing effort in Europe. Are we doing enough to represent technology on a global scale? Susan Oderwald, Een Czuba, and Jeremy Fennelly address SPE- An International Organization. See page 12.
TPEs at SPE TopCon
Michael Tolinski discusses thermoplastic elastomers as showcased at the Society's TopCon on TPEs held last month in Akron, Ohio. TPEs, including thermoplastic vulcanizates and thermoplastic polyurethanes, are not an industry unto themselves; TPEs are finding applications in many markets, the medical market among them. See page 10.
Patents
Roger Corneliussen discusses nine of the latest patents relative to plastics. Included is a patent in which new catalysts for polyolefm polymerization are based on metallocenes. Also discussed are patents on Precision Foams, A New Mixer, Multilayer Bottles, Nanocomposites, Medical Adhesives, and a method in which solvents are used for Reducing Industrial Pollution. See page 16.
Plastics Engineering
Copyright Society of Plastics Engineers Oct 2005
Source: Plastics Engineering
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