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“One can argue that we should do away with properties, so everybody uses them. People say
all polyethylene and polypropylene and use only if we could figure out a way to make them circu-
new circular materials,” he said. “But the world’s lar, it would be a big deal, and that’s what we’ve
not going to do that for decades and decades. done.
“Polyolefins are cheap, and they have good Sources – Packaging Europe
Bio-based Medical-grade PVC Compounds
Match Properties of Conventional PVC
resins and plasticizers manufactured with renew-
able energy. The bio-based compounds report-
The bio-based materials are drop-in
replacements for medical molding edly are equivalent to traditional medical-grade
and extrusion applications, claims PVC in terms of chemical composition, function-
TekniPlex Healthcare. ality, and regulatory viability.
Suited for medical tubing and films
TekniPlex Healthcare’s bio-based, medical-
grade PVC compounds enhance sustainability
profiles without sacrificing the reliable perfor-
mance of traditional PVC compounds. The bio-
based compounds are a drop-in replacement for
a variety of injection molded or extruded PVC
compounds utilized in an array of applications,
including IV therapy tube sets, drip chambers,
and peristaltic pump tubing; films used for trays,
pouches, bags, and other form-fill-seal settings;
io-based compounds for medical plastics and various components composed of medical-
grade plastics.
applications have been developed by
BTekniPlex Healthcare. Their performance Up to 90% reduction in CO2 emissions
and compositional properties are equivalent to
conventional PVC resins, said the contract de- The new PVC compounds can reduce CO2 out-
velopment and manufacturing organization, put/emissions by up to 90% compared with con-
which claims to be the first healthcare company ventional PVC resins, and approximately 60%
to introduce this class of biomaterials. relative to traditional PVC plasticizers, according
to TekniPlex. Produced at the company’s manu-
The ISCC Plus–certified PVC compounds utilize
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