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A common technical plastic used in medical equipment, polycarbonate combines transparency, impact resistance, and robust sterilisability in a unique way.
Engineering plastics, which include polycarbonate and PC resin, are plastics that are specifically created for improved strength, temperature resistance, and other mechanical qualities.
Covestro’s Makrolo polycarbonate, a medical-grade polycarbonate, provides greater toughness and chemical resistance to help prevent cracking, allowing medical practitioners to provide cancer and other medications to patients more safely.
Plastic lenses for eyewear, medical devices, automobile parts, protective gear, greenhouses, digital discs (CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray), and outdoor lighting fixtures are all frequently made of PC.
Due of their superior mechanical strength and easy processing, polycarbonates have emerged as intriguing biomaterials. Pure polycarbonates, polyiminocarbonates, and tyrosine-based polycarbonates all breakdown under physiological conditions very slowly.
This is crucial for things that have direct touch with people’s bodies, like dialysers, medical equipment for intensive care units, and other items that require high-temperature sterilisation.
Blood oxygenators, blood reservoirs, and blood filters utilised in the bypass circuit have all been made of polycarbonate.
Glass-like clarity is necessary for visual assessment of blood flow and condition throughout the procedure, and the material’s toughness offers the highest level of safety.
The Global medical device polycarbonate resin market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
The medical-grade polycarbonate resins in the polymer company’s range were used to create the device. The use of distinct polycarbonates in each component of the gadget makes recycling and sorting after disposal easier.
In modern devices, a drug delivery device might contain a wide variety of various materials and polymers that might not be compatible with one another if recycled together was informed by Lauren Zetts, segment manager for To have materials that are compatible with recycling, we’re encouraging the usage of devices made entirely of polycarbonate.
Covestro also displayed its brand-new Makrolon RE polycarbonate for the medical industry at MD&M West. This material was just recently introduced.
The company claimed that the utilisation of renewable electricity and raw materials from mass-balanced bio-waste and leftovers resulted in the new polycarbonate grades having minimal carbon footprints.
