Plastic solutions for the medical industry
Facing new challenges
The major trends in the medical industry such as ageing patients and their mobility needs, as well as younger peoples' desire for a pain-free life, are resulting in an increase in surgical procedures as well as new treatment options.This is leading to greater prices and added cost pressures in the health systems and for medical product manufacturers.
The requirement to carry out unannounced audits, a tightening in clinical assessments, as well as additional testing procedures for certain medical products belonging to higher categories, are designed to enhance patient safety. This includes increased consideration of physiological safety even with short-term patient contacts, which leads to further emphasis on the product safety requirements.
For the manufacturers of medical products, this will mean the development of new, innovative products under the premises of
product safety, patient benefits and cost control in future.
More than one solution...
Ensinger helps to meet these requirements by supporting medical product manufacturers in creating product solutions with alternative, but tried and tested, materials and process technologies.
The wide range of Ensinger medical grade materials (MT) offers product designers a wide choice of options to develop innovative medical products, which provide a high degree of safety and added value. The different manufacturing methods used by Ensinger such as extrusion, machining, injection moulding, profile extrusion and compounding, offer the customer a versatile selection of plastics to develop and produce their product together with Ensinger along the value added chain.
Ensinger offers high compliance standards for all medical grade materials (MT) regarding documentation, traceability and change notification. These information enable an experienced know how and data transfer to authorities for the approval of products worldwide.
The safety of patients comes first, both for the selection of physiological harmless materials as well as for the testing on biocompatible properties of Ensinger Medical Grade (MT) products.