Elasto Sweden starts new line for medical TPEs

Elasto Sweden increases their medical capabilities with the start-up of a new medical line and expansion to the technical centre at their facility in Åmål, Sweden.

“High quality materials, produced under consistent conditions with a strict raw material selection policy, all backed by specialist technical support, this is what we’ve built our medical strategy on,” commented Niklas Ottosson, medical technical manager at Elasto. “Our strong heritage in this sector gives us a deep understanding of medical device regulations and requirements, such as; traceability, reproducibility and formulation stability.”

As part of the investment, the company has also expanded the technical resources at their Swedish facility, Klas Dannäs, Global R+D coordinator for Hexpol TPE commented “Hexpol TPE operate technical centres at each of their production sites; ensuring fast and responsive customer support. Our teams of chemists and polymer engineers’ use advanced polymer testing and analysis equipment to develop progressive TPE compounds customised to our customers’ requirements. To support our growing customer base, we have added to our technical centre in Sweden with the installation of a new pilot line and further investments in analytical equipment such as FTIR, DSC and TGA machines.”

Thomas Nilsson, who joined Elasto Sweden as managing director earlier this year, added “I have been impressed with the commitment, know-how and dedication of our team. As a supplier to the medical device industry it is critical that we operate to the highest-standards by investing in advanced compounding and product development processes. The new line and investment in technical resources is part of our on-going commitment to supply leading quality TPE products and expertise to our growing medical customer base”

Elasto Sweden is, according to their own information, the first European TPE compounder to be awarded the ISO 13485 certification for the development, manufacture, marketing and sales of TPE compounds for the medical device industry.

Elasto Sweden will be exhibiting at Compamed, 16 to 19 November 2015, Dusseldorf.
Hall 8a, stand R14.