Feb 13 2006
On February 1 of this year, BASF launched another plastic specialty for the field of medical technology. Terluran® HD-15 is an ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) that is being marketed with a service package tailor-made for the requirements of medical technology. This material belongs to the PlasticsPlus™ product line of the Styrene Plastics Operating Division. The abbreviation HD stands for “Health Care and Diagnostics”.
Thanks to its flow index of 15 ml/10 min, Terluran HD-15 is easy to process by injection molding. The new product surpasses conventional ABS particularly when it comes to its improved resistance to chemicals. Aside from this property, which is of utmost significance for manufacturers of technical medical products, Terluran HD also exhibits optimized toughness and rigidity values. Typical applications include the housings of inhalers.
Up until now, BASF had bundled its service package for medical technology with its transparent plastic Terlux® 2802 HD (MABS). Features of this package are long-term formulation constancy, product purity and a wide array of basic experiments on chemical compatibility. “The service package was well received by our MABS customers, so we have now expanded it to include our newly developed Terluran HD-15,” explains Dr. Axel Gottschalk, Business Manager for ABS specialties. This product is now commercially available.
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