In response to customer needs, Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical created the Rapid Development Center to accelerate the time to market for new products and reduce the production cost of parts already in the market. This innovative service smooths the transition from design to serial production. 

The Rapid Development Center provides healthcare and medical customers with specialized equipment and dedicated experts to work on design, materials, process, and quality throughout the entire life cycle of the project. 

Our Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical experts have placed an emphasis on serving our partners developing drug-eluting devices and implantable drug delivery systems because of the potential these technologies have to provide innovative therapies for patients.

In an effort to build confidence in these therapeutic forms our team presents the information that has led to our excitement about the technology as well as a detailed recap of experiments we’ve conducted along with a summary of learnings we’ve gathered as a result.


Key Takeaways: 

• An understanding of the market trends supporting increased development
• Familiarity with the early uses of drug elution as well as our expectations on where it will go
• Excipient materials used as well as the manufacturing methods that can be employed
• A detailed breakdown of multiple ways APIs can be introduced to silicone
• A better view of alternative methods for introducing APIs to silicone via several case studies presented<