TekniPlex Healthcare is using the world’s largest medical trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, this week to educate potential customers about its extensive capabilities for designing and manufacturing Class III implantable devices and delivery systems.
At Hall 8b, Stand N02, the company is highlighting its status as a full-fledged contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in these niches, capable of partnering with startups and established entities on everything from initial concepting, prototyping, and pilot production through larger-scale manufacturing and commercialization. The company also is showcasing several recently introduced solutions, including bio-based PVC compounds and its most robust reinforced paper to date for medical device packaging applications.
Expanded Upstream Capabilities for Medical Device Development
TekniPlex Healthcare claims to be among the few medical device CDMOs offering comprehensive, ideation-to-completion product creation across a wide range of categories including endovascular stents, heart valves, and delivery systems. Among other differentiators, the company offers high-precision, tight-tolerance development and prototyping for mission-critical metal components typical not only in cardiovascular settings but also pulmonary, gastrointestinal, laparoscopic, and other endoscopic applications, including chemotherapy drug delivery devices.
TekniPlex Healthcare now offers diversified services supporting customers from early ideation stages through product development, prototyping, clinical trials, testing, new product introduction, and full production of catheter-based systems and other tubing-related solutions. This includes an array of precision secondary processes, as well as clean room assembly of Class II and Class III devices such as stents, heart valves, catheter-based devices and delivery systems.
Bio-based Compounds for Medical Plastics Applications
TekniPlex Healthcare is reportedly the first healthcare solutions company to introduce bio-based compounds for medical plastics applications whose performance and compositional properties are equivalent to conventional polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins. Certified through the globally recognized International Sustainability & Carbon Certification PLUS (ISCC PLUS) system, the bio-based medical-grade PVC compounds use resins and plasticizers manufactured with renewable energy and bio-attributed classification. The compounds are equivalent to traditional medical-grade PVC in terms of chemical composition, functionality and regulatory viability.
The bio-based, medical-grade PVC compounds enhance sustainability profiles without sacrificing the reliable performance for which traditional PVC compounds are known. Conveniently, the resins are drop-in replacements for a wide variety of injection molded or extruded PVC compounds used in a broad array of applications, including tubing solutions such as IV therapy tube sets, drip chambers, and peristaltic pump tubing; films used for trays, pouches, bags and other form-fill-seal settings; and other components composed of medical-grade plastics.
At Compamed, TekniPlex Healthcare is displauying samples of its medical device packaging offerings, including a variety of grid lacquer-coated paper specifications and coated Tyvek options. Notably, TekniPlex Healthcare recently expanded its converting capability for DuPont Tyvek healthcare styles to include the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. For the company’s EMEA medical device customers, the development will yield local sourcing and shorter lead times for coated solutions containing Tyvek products.
Compamed also serves as the European debut of TekniPlex Healthcare’s strongest-ever reinforced paper for medical device packaging applications. The HPC74 Series features the highest puncture and tear strength of all TekniPlex Healthcare reinforced papers to date, as well as outstanding porosity levels. Available in various proprietary coating formulations, the high-performing, breathable medical-grade paper provides a clean peel and wide processing windows for rollstock and lidding applications.
TekniPlex Healthcare uses advanced materials science expertise and technologies to develop and deliver critical solutions for medical and diagnostic devices, drug delivery systems, and sterile barriers healthcare packaging applications. With a global reach, the division’s understanding of the greater pharmaceuticals and medical landscape enables it to produce barrier properties for drugs and precision medical devices for interventional and therapeutic procedures.
In the medical device niche, TekniPlex Healthcare embodies a comprehensive CDMO partner capable of servicing every stage of the product life cycle, from design and development through component manufacturing and final assembly. The division’s evolving portfolio helps meet demands for high-leverage medicines and mission-critical healthcare products that benefit care providers and patients.
