MANUFACTURER BOOSTS DISINFECTANT RESISTANCE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE HOUSINGS HIGH PERFORMANCE MEDICAL FORMULATIONS © 2020, All Rights Reserved Avient Corporation, 33587 Walker Road, Avon Lake, Ohio USA 44012 To learn more about Trilliant HC, contact Avient at +1.844.4AVIENT (1.844.428.4368). Here’s a case in point: A leading manufacturer of medical devices in North America had established a great brand with excellent quality, but wanted to improve the resistance of its PC/ABS equipment housings to this new disinfection protocol.

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Mevopur™ Healthcare Colorants and Formulations and Mevopur™ Healthcare Functional Additives for Bormed™ Resins Mevopur™ Healthcare Colorants and Formulations and Mevopur™ Healthcare Functional Additives help medical device, diagnostics and pharmaceutical packaging sectors meet the growing challenges of product consistency, compliance and reliability. It is the responsibility of the medical device manufacturer and the person placing the medical device on the market to ensure compliance of the medical device with all applicable laws and regulations, including the suitability of all raw materials and components used for its manufacture.

These questions will help define the appropriate combination of modular components: • What type of process - extrusion/molding? FlexCart Reservoir Cassette • Key component of the FlexCart range providing the ability to change colors in minutes • A ten-liter container housed in a removable cassette, with built in tube storage facility Peristaltic Pump • Ideal for use on shorter production runs & frequent color changes • Re-usable with replaceable tubing • Typically used for injection molding Progressing Cavity Pump • Suited to longer production runs & continuous operation • Accurate, interchangeable & available in five sizes • Typically used in extrusion CMG Controllers • CMG3000 - A robust, straightforward analogue control of metering • CMG5000 - Expanded functions, touch screen, networking & data export • CMG6000 - As for CMG5000 plus control of HP melt injection pumps & melt pressure transducers • FlexG - CMG3000 + load cell system for loss in weight functionality Gyroscopic Mixing & Recirculating • Gyroscopic mixing designed for the patented PlanetPak design • FlexCart Re-Circ Dual paddle mixer designed for larger FlexCart units to rejuvenate materials • Systems designed to maintain liquid colors and additives in prime condition FlexCart FlexCart Mini FlexCart Micro FlexCart Nano FlexCart M.I. FURTHER USEFUL INFORMATION In addition to the standard operating manuals for the equipment, installation and operation videos can be accessed on the Avient YouTube channel—look for: • ColorMatrix FlexCart Micro • ColorMatrix FlexCart G • ColorMatrix FlexCart Mini • ColorMatrix FlexCart V2 • ColorMatrix FlexCart Priming + Extrusion • ColorMatrix FlexCart Priming + Calibration CONTROLLER FUNCTIONALITY The range of controllers designed to run the FlexCart units range includes: • CMG3000 • CMG5000 • CMG6000 • Flex-G The functionality of the controller systems is designed with flexibility and customer requirements at its core.

Single-step, co-extrusion process

Polymer Jacket Extrusion

Reusable concentrates significantly reduce time spent cleaning extrusion and injection molding equipment.

Key considerations should include addition ratio, screw design, extrusion or cycle speed and other factors, such as wall thickness and part design. 

Stan-Tone™ VC and VCP colorants provide good dispersion, uniformity, compatibility and cleanliness, while providing excellent color control for metering and distribution in rigid and flexible vinyl extrusion, injection molding and calendaring processes.

Reusable concentrates significantly reduce time spent cleaning extrusion and injection molding equipment.