Solvay, a leading global supplier of specialty polymers, has introduced a new medical grade of Ixef® PARA for single-use surgical instruments and biopharma processing components with rotating parts. Ixef® GS-5022 brings increased lubrication to the well-known combination of mechanical properties and ultra-smooth finish associated with Ixef® GS-1022, already widely used in healthcare applications.
“Ixef® GS-5022 has been developed to meet customer needs for single-use instruments with moving parts that require smooth, minimum force movement and reduced noise,” said Guruprasad Sivakumar, Head of Healthcare Marketing at Solvay. “The increased level of lubrication makes Ixef® GS-5022 the ideal solution wherever you expect to have high friction in surgical instruments such as stent crimpers or components of single-use instruments functioning at high rotational speeds.”
Ixef® GS-5022 is an ideal solution to replace metal due to its unique combination of tensile and flexural strength with an aesthetic, ultra-smooth finish. It is also compatible with hospital disinfectants and resistant to high energy gamma radiation without significant changes to its original appearance or physical properties. Therefore, parts made from Ixef® GS-5022 can be gamma sterilized in bulk leading to reduced costs, enabling the production of affordable disposable surgical instruments or components for biopharma processing.
The resin demonstrates no evidence of cytotoxicity, sensitization, intracutaneous reactivity, pyrogenicity, or acute systemic toxicity, based on biocompatibility testing as defined by ISO 10993-1
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