This July, we’re celebrating materials month! In honor of materials month, each week we’ll be highlighting and discussing the different biomaterials (known as the Quadra™ Family of Medical Polyurethanes) and compounding capabilities that we offer to the medical device industry.
This week, to kick everything off, we’ll be talking about our most popular medical grade polyurethane line, Quadraflex™.
For our second week of materials month, we’ve chosen to highlight our most popular family of long-term implantable thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs); Quadrathane™.
Quadrathane™ is a line of implantable polycarbonate-based medical grade TPUs. Found in long-term devices throughout the healthcare industry, Quadrathane™ TPUs are available in both aromatic and aliphatic hard segments.
For the third week of materials month, we’ve chosen to highlight our family of extremely long-term implantable materials: Quadrasil™.
Quadrasil™ is a family of thermoplastic silicone polyurethane co-polymers that exhibit the properties of both urethane and silicone. Included in this family of materials are our standard Quadrasil™ line, Elast-Eon™, and ECSil™.
It’s the final week of materials month, and we want to end it with a bang!
We sat down with our team of chemists and engineers to talk about something that continues to be an obstacle for established medical device companies and startups alike—material changes.
Lately, braided and coiled (also known as braid and coil reinforced) shafts have been a trending topic in the world of medical devices. With the growing popularity of complex minimally invasive surgeries and the rising demands of procedural requirements, the need for shafts with tighter tolerances and improved characteristics has increased drastically. So, this week, we interviewed our experts at Biomerics Advanced Catheter to learn more about braided and coiled shafts and the capabilities Biomerics has to support companies in this innovative field.
Micro-catheters are commonly found throughout the medical device and healthcare industries. With companies trying to develop and market products that meet the demanding needs of physicians and healthcare providers around the world, having the ability to efficiently design and manufacture an advanced device—such as a micro-catheter—is crucial to success. For this reason, we wanted to take this week to talk about the innovative field of micro-catheters and what companies should look for when selecting a micro-catheter supplier.
Biomerics LLC, a leading contract manufacturer and innovative polymer solutions provider for the medical device industry, announced today the divestment of its holdings in HTP-Biomerics Medical LLC to its partner HTP-Meds LLC. In a follow-on transaction, HTP-Meds LLC has been sold to Hitachi Metals, a division of Hitachi Corporation with global annual sales of $95 billion USD. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Salt Lake City, Utah, June 14, 2016—Biomerics, LLC, a leading contract manufacturer and innovative polymer solutions provider for the medical device industry, announced today a strategic investment in a new facility in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota for its Biomerics Advanced Catheter division.
MD&M Minneapolis 2016 is next week and we’re excited to see you there! If you are attending the show, be sure to stop by our booth (booth 2155) to learn more about our manufacturing, engineering, and product capabilities and solutions.
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