Medical

High-performance plastics will play a growing and vital role in advancing the use of high-tech electronics in robots for surgery and related procedures.

Growing use of electronification creates an automation-rich medical device market that relies on high-plastics parts for robot assembly and high precision.

Ampacet masterbatches protect food and drug packaging.

High rate for biobased polyester reflects growing demand for sustainable products

Small, lightweight defibrillator is part of a connected ecosystem of responders.

MIT researchers say the device changes the form factor of the ultrasound technology.

Diverse Products Earn IDSA’s Curator’s Choice and People’s Choice Awards.

To aid pet mobility, Ford creates free design file to use for 3D printing a wheelchair for dogs.

Two versions of the rubber vulcanizate/polyolefin elastomer are for peristaltic pumps.

All-electric presses with high-cavity molds boost medical, packaging output.

The ubiquity of plastics in medical is impressive. The catheter that unblocked my LDA and implanted a stent included an artery-opening balloon that’s usually made of PET or polyamide. It might be possible to do an angioplasty with a plastics-free catheter, but the procedure would be dicey and possibly more invasive.  

Researchers seek to make blood pressure readings available to everyone with low-cost device.