At Medtec China, TekniPlex Healthcare to Present on Precision Catheter Solutions and Medical Silicone Manufacturing
Company also will celebrate 20 years of operations at its Suzhou, China, manufacturing facility with broad capabilities in medical compounds and a wide range of tubing products, including silicone-based solutions.
Wayne, PA – TekniPlex Healthcare, which utilizes advanced materials science expertise to help deliver better patient outcomes, will give two keynote presentations demonstrating facets of its extensive medical device component manufacturing capabilities at Medtec China, September 24-26 in Shanghai. In addition to showcasing a wide array of medical compounds, tubing and other solutions at its Booth 2A001, the company will provide attendees with detailed insight into a pair of its prominent competencies: precision catheter solutions and medical silicone manufacturing, respectively.
Notably, the event comes as TekniPlex Healthcare celebrates the 20th anniversary of its spacious medical materials production facility in Suzhou, China. ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified, and featuring Class 10K and Class 100K cleanrooms, the plant is an ideal environment for producing a broad array of materials science solutions. This includes extrusion for a variety of tubing products (multi-lumen, multi-layer, paratubing, wire enmeshed, micro-extrusions, etc.); silicone manufacturing via compress molding and extrusion; and catheter solutions such as balloon constructions and those for minimally invasive delivery systems.
In addition to highlighting the Suzhou facility’s robust range of production capabilities at its booth, two TekniPlex Healthcare subject matter experts will deliver presentations during the show. On September 24 from 2-2:30pm, in Central Hall Meeting Room C, Enrique Zhang, Commercial Director for TekniPlex China, will present Nano Revolution in Minimally Invasive Interventions: Innovative Practices in Ultra-Precision Catheter Solutions.
Mr. Zhang has more than 17 years of experience in technical R&D, product development and project management, including specialty engineering of minimally invasive interventional product solutions. His discussion will detail best practices for yielding high-performance, ultra-precision catheter solutions for a wide range of minimally invasive devices, including single-lumen, multi-lumen, co-extrusion (such as PTCA tri-layer shafts and multi-layer balloon tubing), and micro-diameter products.
Leveraging Class 10K cleanroom environments and nano-level extrusion control, TekniPlex Healthcare ensures uniform wall thickness and ≥90% concentricity, meeting stringent demands of neurovascular, cardiovascular, peripheral, urological, oncology, and drug-delivery applications. Strict adherence to ISO 13485:2016 quality systems and biocompatibility standards guarantees batch-to-batch consistency and high assembly yield.
On September 24 from 3-3:30pm, in Hall 1 Meeting Room A, FanJin Zeng, Business Development Manager at TekniPlex China, will present Medical Silicone Solutions: Innovative Materials, Precision Manufacturing, Customized Service. With more than 15 years of medical device sector experience, Mr. Zeng has accrued extensive expertise in formulation development, process optimization, and application research for both plastic and silicone tubing. His presentation will draw upon TekniPlex Healthcare’s comprehensive medical silicone manufacturing capabilities, which span demanding niches such as solid silicone compression molding, precision extrusion (single-lumen, multi-lumen, profile, and co-extrusion), secondary processing (drilling, printing, overmolding) and assembly.
Mr. Zeng also will discuss key metrics for evaluating silicone tubing quality. For example, during a recent peristaltic pump silicone tubing test, TekniPlex Healthcare products demonstrated stable flow control and precise tolerance, with no particle shedding, ensuring safety in medical environments. These attributes resulted from the company’s core capabilities in wall thickness consistency and high concentricity, which significantly reduce performance degradation during long-term use.
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About Tekni-Plex Healthcare
TekniPlex Healthcare utilizes advanced materials science expertise and technologies to develop and deliver critical solutions for medical and diagnostic devices, drug delivery systems and sterile barrier healthcare packaging applications. With a global reach, the division’s deep understanding of the greater pharmaceuticals and medical landscape helps it produce exemplary barrier properties for drugs and precision medical devices for interventional and therapeutic procedures.
In the medical device niche, TekniPlex Healthcare embodies a comprehensive CDMO partner capable of servicing every stage of the product life cycle, from design and development through component manufacturing and final assembly. Throughout its broad purview, the division’s ever-evolving portfolio helps meet demands for high-leverage medicines and mission-critical healthcare products that benefit care providers and patients. For more information visit www.tekni-plex.com/healthcare.
