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NEWLY EXPANDED Versaflex™ HC Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs): a family of specialty and customizable TPEs with a broad range of performance characteristics and durometers, including grades formulated without animal derivatives, making them useful for countless injection molding or overmolding applications.
The Versaflex HC BIO BT218 formulation was developed specifically to handle the complexities of biopharmaceutical tubing and deliver excellent weldability, kink resistance, and low levels of extractables.
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Versaflex™ HC TPEs are compliant and easily colorable formulations for injection molding or overmolding uses.
This family of TPEs includes the HC3810 series formulated without animal derivatives for use in a wide range of applications.
It also contains more specialty formulations like the HC BT218 grade, which was developed specifically to handle the complexities of biopharmaceutical tubing and deliver excellent weldability, kink resistance, and low levels of extractables.
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Catheter Materials & Medical Tubing
Biopharmaceutical Tubing & Clamps
Medical Tubing
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Rods, tubes, poles, springs and custom profiles in unlimited lengths and configurations
Glasforms™ Continuous Filament Wound Tubes & Poles
Glasforms™ Pultruded Rods, Tubes & Custom Profiles
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Catheter Materials & Medical Tubing
Biopharmaceutical Tubing & Clamps
Medical Tubing
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Catheter Materials & Medical Tubing
Biopharmaceutical Tubing & Clamps
Medical Tubing
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Catheter Materials & Medical Tubing
Biopharmaceutical Tubing & Clamps
Medical Tubing
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TPEs vs.
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Durablility, Simplified
Manufacturer finds improved durability and cost-effectiveness for plastic spinning tubes & bobbins.
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GLS™ TPE
PACKAGING SOLUTIONS
CHEMICAL RESISTANT
SOLUTIONS FOR COSMETIC,
PERSONAL CARE AND
HOUSEHOLD PACKAGING
We’ve developed a line of chemical resistant thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) that do not discolor, etch, crack or
delaminate.
Differentiation – Add color and texture
to stand out from the competition
• Recyclable – TPEs are compatible with most
municipal recycle streams
• Global Support – Avient is a global supplier
with manufacturing and technical support in
Europe, Asia and North America
To learn more about chemical resistant
GLS TPEs for packaging, contact Avient at
+1.844.4AVIENT (+1.844.428.4368).
Our FDA and REACH compliant Versaflex™ PKG TPEs provide options for designing aesthetically pleasing
packaging components that withstand aggressive chemicals
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WIR E & CABLE OEM
P V D F E X T R U S I O N
• Improve extrusion line speed
• Minimize defects, optimize coefficient of friction (CoF), control
extrusion pressure, and eliminate die drool
• Prevent melt fracture (sharkskin)
• Reduce energy use in processing to achieve cost savings
• Delivered a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
solution that improved extrusion production times
• Provided application specialists with deep
knowledge of PVDF processing windows (melt
and degradation temperatures) to help boost
overall processing performance
• Enhanced surface aesthetics by reducing friction
and improving flow stability
• Gained a reduction in energy use and offered
added savings for other PVDF applications such
as wire jacketing or tube and pipe extrusion
Colorant Chromatics PVDF Processing Aid
KEY REQUIREMENTS
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