Bormed - PE, PP - Borealis AG

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
... WB180HMS is based on a PP homopolymer, it helps enhance the rigidity, and thereby offers a way to reduce the film thickness. The development of highpurity, yet softer grades allows polypropylene to play a very important role in health care. Bormed SC820CF, a soft heterophasic copolymer with random EP matrix, has been developed specifically for medical infusion bags and packaging for medical instruments (Fig. 4). Although it does not quite match the extreme softness of LyondellBasell Adflex grad...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polypropylene (PP)
...ondellbasell Industries AF S.C.A. (LyondellBasell), Rotterdam, Netherlands, with its Adflex grades produced by the Catalloy process in an elastic modulus range from 400 to 100 MPa. Just recently, Borealis launched Bormed SC876CF, the latest development in the area of flexible, transparent polypropylene specially designed for challenging medical packaging. Even in tests conducted on an injection molded test specimen, this product still achieved a flexural modulus of 300 MPa. This grade was specia...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
...nufacturers such as LyondellBasell, Sabic, Borealis and Total, and it is less the result of chemical regulations than of customer wishes. Special PP grades for the medical sector, such as the Purell family from LyondellBasell or the Bormed products from Borealis have already benefited in the past from the recognized purity. For the latter, this applies particularly to the replacement of flexible PVC in film and bag applications. Soft PP products such as Bormed SC876CF now offer a combination of ...