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DowDuPont Specialty Products Division will showcase its recently combined portfolio of innovative, healthcare product technologies and solutions in booth #3001/3005 at MD&M West in Anaheim, California, Feb. 5-7, 2019.
The upcoming show also will mark the North American debut of the newest DOW CORNING™ soft skin adhesive and an encore presentation of the cost-effective DuPont™ Tyvek® 40L medical packaging material for protecting lightweight, lower-risk Class I and II devices.
Additional features include high-quality thermoplastics used to manufacture demanding components in applications such as drug delivery devices, wearables, prosthetics and wound care. Booth visitors can learn about the high mechanical and chemical properties of DuPont™ Hytrel®, Delrin®, Zytel® and Crastin® grades in critical applications such as diabetes pump connectors, insulin pens and surgical retractors. DOW CORNING™ brand medical grade silicones, which include silicone elastomers, solutions for siliconization also will be featured.
In addition to booth presence, the teams will share industry leadership and expertise during presentations:
- Roger Hendrick, Technical Service & Development Scientist, DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, will give a presentation titled, “Healthcare Liquid Silicone Rubber for Low Temperature Overmolding Applications” on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 10:15-11:00 a.m., Pacific Standard Time (PST). Hendrick will discuss the characteristics of low-temperature-cure liquid silicone rubber, improvements in cure rheology and the material’s potential applications, among other important attributes.
- Nick Packet, Medical Device Manufacturer Specialist, and Kevin Grum, Global Technical Service Consultant, DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, will present “Understanding How Packaging Impacts Life Cycle Costs & the Journey of Your Medical Device” on Wednesday, Feb. 6, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. PST. They will discuss how packaging can add value to a product's life cycle – particularly the pack-out, sterilization and distribution steps – and give examples featuring Tyvek® 40L. They will focus on the impact of breathability of substrates on the full life cycle.
Commercial leaders and technical experts will be available to answer questions and provide specific information on a broad range of healthcare technology applications and solutions.
![Alison Bryant, senior consultant at Antea Group and communications director for the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), addressed the crowd at the[PACK]out.](https://img.healthcarepackaging.com/files/base/pmmi/all/image/2024/05/Alison_Bryant.6644005a513b0.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
