Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products, a provider of high-performance engineering plastics for life sciences industry, will collaborate with MediTECH, a supplier of medical grade UHMW-PE to the orthopaedic implant industry.
The collaboration aims to display its respective advanced polymer materials for medicine, at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting (AAOS) 2013, which is being held from 19-23 March 2013, and work together to anticipate physician and patient needs to create products with out any need for substitute.
MediTECH global technology manager Lou Matrisciano said, "To consistently deliver breakthough technologies within the orthopaedic implant industry requires us to work closely with implant manufacturers to develop advanced crosslinking technologies and bring this family of products to market."
Quadrant will display its life science grade (LSG) biocompatible products including Ketron PEEK LSG, Quadrant LSG PPSU, PSU, HS, and PC, Duratron LSG PEI, Acetron LSG, and Proteus LSG HS PP.
The LSG products have characteristics properties such as weight reduction, resistance to commonly used sterilization methods, x-ray transparency, design flexibility, anti-static performance, and resistance to high energetic radiation.
MediTECH will feature its Chirulen and Extrulen products that offer healing properties and are used for articulating surfaces, thus restoring a higher quality of life to patients.
