PPSU medical grade

TECASON P MT

TECASON P MT (PPSU) is a high performance medical grade plastic with exceptional resistance to common sterilisation techniques, especially hot steam sterilisation. Together with its good resistance to cleaning agents and disinfectants, TECASON P MT gives added safety in medical applications and could extend the application life cycle in the harsh hospital environment.

The fields of application are vast, spanning many medical segments like joint reconstruction, traumatology, spine, to name just a few. TECASON P MT is often used for surgical instruments, tool handles, implant trials including femoral and tibial components for knee, hip, and shoulder replacement processes as well as for a vast number of sterilisation trays and caddies.

Biocompatibility

TECASON P MT is suitable for all medical applications that require biocompatibility with limited contact with skin and tissue for up to 24 hours, and, where applicable, indirect contact with blood.

TECASON P MT and TECASON P MT XRO plastics are tested according to ISO 10993. USP Class VI information is available for raw material.

Key characteristics

The material has high thermal resistance, excellent mechanical properties and toughness. In particular, PPSU offers very good impact strength, which helps to withstand shock stresses that offen occur during medical surgery. Other properties include:

Resistant to repeated hot steam sterilisation
Resistant to cleaning agents, disinfectants and various solvents
Excellent dimensional stability
High impact strength and notched impact strength
Low water absorption
Very good electrical insulation

Steam sterilisation resistance

Hot steam sterilisation: TECASON P MT shows no significant loss of mechanical properties until 800 sterilisation cycles.
Also, significant discolouration is not seen below 1,000 sterilisation cycles.

Sterilisation tests were performed using plastic test specimens without cleaning cycles. The sterilisation temperature was 134°C with a sterilisation time of 10 min. and a drying time of 20 min. The chamber pressure was 3 bar. Other effects influencing the cleaning process (with Ecolab, Borer etc.) were not investigated. Due to the chemical resistance of the individual materials and practical experience it must be assumed that the cleaning cycles have a significant influence on the sterilisation resistance. The sterilisation resistance, in particular of PP-HT and to a lesser degree POM-C, is significantly impaired by this. It must therefore be assumed that the sterilisation resistance will be significantly lower than described. We typically define PP-HT with approx. 200 sterilisation cycles and POM-C with approx. 300 - 400 cycles.

TECASON P MT materials

Ensinger's PPSU medical grade TECASON P MT is available in many standard colours from stock. This allows greater flexibility when designing your applications, e.g. to easily distinguish between different instruments and sizes, or differentiate from competitors' products by colour branding. Furthermore, TECASON P MT rods can be ordered in a wide range of dimensions, which offers our customers optimised supply chain coordination, thus fulfilling our customers' delivery time needs.

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TECASON P MT green

TECASON P MT green is suitable for use in medical applications.Tecason P MT green is just one of the many color options available in this family of products.

TECASON P MT grey

TECASON P MT grey is suitable for use in medical applications.Tecason P MT grey is just one of the many color options available in this family of products.

TECASON P MT blue

TECASON P MT blue is suitable for use in medical applications. In many medical applications, it is often desirable for designers to have a number colors to choose.

X-ray detectable PPSU - TECASON P MT XRO

TECASON P MT XRO is a medical grade PPSU with good visibility and radiography. A contrast medium added to the standard TECASON P MT line permits clear visibility of components under fluoroscopy and X-ray radiation. It provides the surgeon with a precise picture of their instruments or of orthopaedic trial implants during image controlled procedures.

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TECASON P MT XRO black

TECASON P MT XRO black is a x-ray detectable biocompatible PPSU plastic that meets the challenging demands of image-controlled surgery and ...

TECASON P MT XRO blue

TECASON P MT XRO blue is a x-ray detectable biocompatible PPSU plastic that meets the challenging demands of image-controlled surgery and ...

TECASON P MT XRO grey

TECASON P MT XRO grey is a x-ray detectable biocompatible PPSU plastic that meets the challenging demands of image-controlled surgery and ...

PPSU plastics in medical devices

Knee trial implants

made of TECASON P MT

Test Implants for Knee Joint Prostheses

Manufacturers of knee endoprostheses are now in a global market for sales and customers. Apart from the actual implant, tools and instruments are of increasing importance. These facilitate handling during the operation, enhance patient safety and may even reduce the follow-up expenses for reprocessing. These instruments include test implants, which sometimes serve to differentiate products from the competitors.