Borealis offers the medical industry a new high transpare...

Borealis offers the medical industry a new high transparency, high purity sealing film solution

Borealis, a leading innovative plastics provider, is enlarging its product offer for high quality films with a new addition to its Bormed family of dedicated healthcare polyolefins. The new grade, Bormed TD109CF, is a polypropylene (PP) sealing material that combines processing advantages with high transparency, purity, excellent sealing behaviour and sterilisability. End uses which can benefit from the performance advantages include pouches, form- fill-seal (FFS) film, the sealable layer for lids for the packaging of medical devices, and lid films for blister packaging. With this new grade, Borealis' range of solutions for the medical film industry becomes uniquely broad.

Bormed TD109CF fulfils the need of the medical industry for pure polymers due to its low solubles and extractables. In coextruded films, Bormed TD109CF's typical broad sealing window of approximately 35°C allows converters to seal different films on the packaging line, without the need to adjust sealing parameters, thereby improving the speed of production. Its low sealing initiation temperatures in the range of 103°C to 105°C deliver reduced cycle times, leading to an increase in line speed and the potential for increased production volumes. This new grade can be processed by cast-, tubular quench-, and blown film technologies.

Peter Niedersüß, Product Development Engineer for Borealis' film business, comments: "Until now, for converters to achieve sealing films with excellent sealing behaviour, high clarity, high purity and sterilisability - key attributes for film sealants in the medical industry - they had to look towards highly expensive compounds. With Bormed TD109CF delivering similar behaviour at a lower cost, the industry can benefit without compromising on the performance of the end-product.´"

In addition to these unique characteristics, Bormed TD109CF displays the key advantages of Borealis' Bormed range developed to satisfy the demand from the pharmaceutical industry for consistency of quality and appropriateness for healthcare applications:
# Broad spectrum of healthcare properties: including transparency, chemical inertness, sterilisability at 121°C and environmental stress cracking resistance
# Contamination-free quality: strict, controlled processing conditions ensure contamination-free quality
# Guaranteed supply: continuity of long-term supply is assured globally

Bormed TD109CF meets relevant legal requirements for the medical and pharmaceutical industries, including Pharmacopoea and FDA approval.

Borealis has more than 40 years experience in providing advanced polyolefin solutions for industries using film, coating and thermoforming products. With foresight throughout the value chain and a focus on customer needs, Borealis continues to provide innovative, value creating PP and polyethylene solutions for the film industry.