MOSCOW (MRC) -- Styron Europe GmbH, the global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, has appointed Velox GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, as the European distributor for medical product offerings from Styron, according to the company's press release.
Velox, a supplier and marketer of raw materials specialties will represent products for Styron medical applications, including CALIBRE MEGARAD polycarbonate resins and MAGNUM ABS Resins.
This partnership allows Styron to link their established medical grades and technologies to a comprehensive sales network from Velox, meeting the diverse needs of the medical market in more than 18 countries.
"Styron is pleased to join forces with VELOX in this new collaboration. Backed by a focused sales force from VELOX and Styron’s product development and medical policy, we believe the partnership will be fruitful," says Nicolas Joly, Product Market Manager for Polycarbonate, Compounds and Blends.
"We look forward to cooperating with Styron and are excited to add their medical products to our product portfolio for the medical market. It is a complementary fit to our current product portfolio of raw materials," says Francois Minec, General Manager at Velox.
As MRC wrote previously, in February 2013, Styron introduced several new resins for medical equipment enclosures,
which are EMERGE PC/ABS 7700 blend, MAGNUM 2642 MED and MAGNUM 8391 MED ABS resins. These materials complement Styron's portfolio for enclosures providing resins that result in an economical system cost. Styron also introduced a broad range of ISO 10993-tested colorants for its CALIBRE polycarbonate resins, CALIBRE MEGARAD polycarbonate resins, and MAGNUM ABS Resins portfolio.
We remind that this March Arkema also appointed Velox as its exclusive distributor for its medical business development in Europe. The product range includes such polyether block amides resins, as Pebax SA 01 Med, Rilsan Med, Rilsamid Med, and Rilsan Clear Med.
Styron is a leading global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber. Styron's technology solutions are used by customers in industries such as home appliances, automotive, building & construction, carpet, commercial transportation, consumer electronics, consumer goods, electrical & lighting, medical, packaging, paper & paperboard, rubber goods and tires. Styron produces premium quality resins and compounds that are used in the medical device industry for disposable and reusable devices and equipment enclosures under the following recognizable names: CALIBRE polycarbonate resins, CALIBRE MEGARAD polycarbonate resins and MAGNUM ABS resins.
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