RTP Company, Winona, MN, has developed a proprietary alloy technology, known as the RTP 2000 HC series, designed to maintain strength, functionality, and integrity, even with repeated exposure to hospital cleaners used to disinfect medical devices. These thermoplastic compounds can help solve cracking issues in existing devices and open a new realm of possibilities for the design of hospital equipment and plastic housings that require frequent disinfection, such as mobile ultrasound and x-ray machines, enteral feeding devices, drug infusion pumps, blood filtration equipment, and more.
In developing the material, engineers from RTP Company tested numerous polymers for damage resistance to six popular chemical classes of hospital cleaners and disinfectants. Molded compounds were subjected to stressors in order to replicate field failures and relative resistance. The best performer was optimized for physical properties, chemical damage resistance, colorability, and flammability. The RTP 2000 HC series is now available globally in flame retardant or non-flame retardant versions, and the compounds are colorable.
OEMs and injection molding companies that create parts, housings, and equipment for medical facilities can use the RTP 2000 HC series thermoplastic compounds as a direct replacement for other amorphous resins such as PC/ABS and PC/PBT.
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