Trays and caddies for transporting and storing surgical instruments as well as screws and additional implants are subject to stringent requirements:
- Simple transport throughout the sterilisation procedure
- Long product service life
- User-friendliness thanks to the option of labelling or marking
- Flexible design for simple and secure storage of instruments, screws or additional implants
Taking the requirements outlined above into consideration, the materials TECAPRO MT (PP – polypropylene) and TECASON P MT (PPSU – polyphenylsulphone) are an ideal solution. Our medical grade (MT) plastics offer manufacturers and equippers of trays and caddies excellent raw materials for the production of light, durable and easy-to-handle transport containers. For example: TECAPRO MT and TECASON P MT boast a lower specific weight than conventional materials like aluminium and stainless steel. In addition, they offer excellent resilience to chemicals including conventional pH cleaners. Unlike other conventional materials, the specially modified plastic TECAPRO MT also has excellent dimensional stability.
The excellent resistance to chemicals, including pH cleaners, and to conventional steam sterilisation in autoclaves means that the surface of the plastics remains pristine, in contrast to metals and aluminium, where the anodised surface coating can be damaged or even eroded completely in the worst-case scenario. This results in trays and caddies with longer service lives compared to competing products made of metal.
Trays and caddies made of TECASON P MT and TECAPRO MT are absolutely biocompatible. In comparison to trays and caddies manufactured from aluminium this results in a significant increase in physiological safety. For example: there is no anodised protective layer, which can be damaged by abrasion and impacts, subsequently leading to biocompatibility issues.