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Covestro offers fast color recovering gamma sterilizable polycarbonate in oxygen free environment, enabling ever-greater dialyzer productivity
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“As a leading dialysis device provider, we are always seeking high-performance polymer materials with excellent biocompatibilityto enable excellent blood purification results. We are adopting a low oxygen environment to sterilize our product in order to minimize polymer degradation in dialyzers, ensuring the products’ safety. Makrolon® Rx2440 from Covestro quickly recovers from the yellowing color after this new low oxygen, high energy sterilization method, together with Covestro’s mature dialyzer’s technical knowledge & experience in China, we can shorten the production-to-delivery timeframe to gain ever-greater productivity.”
“ Covestro has been serving China’s blood purification market for over 10 years. Polycarbonate is a globally well-established material for fulfilling dialyzer product design & production needs.”
Why choose Makrolon® Rx2440 from Covestro?
- Speedy color restoration in oxygen free environments When gamma or e-beam sterilized in an oxygen free environment, Makrolon® Rx2440 color is restored quicker than other radiation stabilized polycarbonate grades.
- Color stability Lower final color shift after gamma sterilization
- Medium-low viscosity Lower injection molding pressures when molding with thin walls due to the resin’s medium-low viscosity