Akron, Ohio — Medical product designer Len Czuba gave a history of vinyl in medical devices at the Vinyltec conference, and he strongly supported vinyl as the most reliable, cost-effective material ...

PVC is the most widely used polymer to manufacture single-use medical devices and will retain that position for the foreseeable future, according to a new study from Global Market Insights. The ...

One of the group's goals is to promote environmentally friendly practices in healthcare applications. If that's truly the goal, it's a welcome development. In one example, Ole Grøndahl Hansen, project ...

The Vinyl Institute of Canada, Toronto, has launched PVC 123, a medical polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling pilot partnership. The pilot received funding support from Environment and Climate Change ...

Data from three studies suggest that using trimellitates can reduce the amount of plasticizer that may migrate from PVC devices. Richard C. Adams The use of plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for ...

Thermoplastic films have been used in flexible medical product applications since the 1960s, when plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blood storage bags replaced glass bottles. 1 In the 1970s, PVC ...