Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (SGPPL) HealthCare Markets, a leading supplier of high-performance medical device components, announces today that it will discontinue manufacturing of medical grade tubing containing DEHP in June 2013. While the company’s current products comply with global regulatory standards when used as directed, SGPPL is taking a proactive approach by offering replacement products that are non-DEHP.
“We are committed to staying one step ahead of evolving regulations in the healthcare industry,” said Aaron Updegrove, Marketing Manager at Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics’ HealthCare Markets Business. “This is an integral part of our medical strategy that aligns with a corporate wide initiative to remove DEHP from all of our products. Over the next 12 months we’ll be working closely with our customers to coordinate a smooth transition to a non-DEHP plasticized solution, ensuring compliance well in advance of a REACh deadline.”
Over eighteen months ago, SGPPL HealthCare Markets introduced its Tygon® ND product family, which provides a variety of tubing solutions that utilize a non-DEHP plasticizer solution. Ideal for applications that require contact with bodily fluids such as minimally invasive devices and drug delivery technologies, Tygon® ND solutions are formulated to meet REACh standards and are available in a range of durometers and plasticizers to meet customer and application requirements.
SGPPL HealthCare Markets also manufactures TYGON® S-22-216 and S-97-E, clear, non-DEHP polymer tubing solutions that offer superior peristaltic pump life, exceptional flexibility, and extremely low levels of extractables. Both products are ideally suited for critical applications where fluid administration is of primary importance, such dialysis equipment and catheters. TYGON ® S-97-E can also be used for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) pumps.
Following the discontinuation of manufacturing next year, SGPPL HealthCare Markets will continue the sale of remaining inventory of medical grade tubing containing DEHP until December 2013. Once inventory is exhausted, no more products containing DEHP will be sold.
Customers can visit www.DEHPtransition.com or call 1-800-798-1554 (1-330-798-6965 from outside the United States) for more information about the transition. “We have ample resources available to collaborate with customers throughout the testing and validation process for our new products,” concluded Updegrove.
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Healthcare Markets
For more than 40 years, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has provided high performance products and services to the worlds’ leading Healthcare companies. Our technical expertise, global manufacturing capabilities, and market knowledge combine with a strong sense of partnership to meet the needs of customers around the world. A heritage of innovation and unparalleled material expertise in silicone, thermoplastic elastomers and fluoroploymers, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is the processing expert in molding, extrusion and all-encompassing custom fabrication for OEM’s. To learn more about Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics’ medical solutions, visit www.medical.saint-gobain.com.