Whitepapers & Technical Articles

Design and material choices can have a long-term impact on manufacturing costs and effieciencies for medical device manufacturers. When they work together with experienced component manufacturers from the start of a project, they can save time, reduce costs, and produce premium quality products, while keeping an eye on the goal of a smooth transition to serial production.

Handy medical devices make life easier for people with chronic conditions, and automated dosing systems are gradually replacing regular injections of essential medication. Trelleborg cooperated with WACKER to develop a microinjection pump, the very heart of such devices.

Medical Plastic News spoke with Chris Tellers, Rapid Development Center director, Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical to learn out about the company's recently
launched Rapid Development Center in Delano, Minnesota

Single-Use systems represent the future in biopharmaceutical processing of therapeutic drugs with significant advantages over traditional reusable stainless-steel systems and partly disposable systems.

Advancements and miniaturization in the medical device industry have improved healthcare around the globe.

Today’s medical device manufacturers operate in a challenging landscape. Stricter regulations and the need for biocompatibility are making development and manufacturing more demanding. Add to that user requirements for devices that suit their lifestyle choices, such as wearable products and home monitoring solutions, and you can understand why Trelleborg Sealing Solutions engineers are looking for novel component options.

First appeared in Machine Design

Addressing challenges in single-use system market requires collaboration

By Ursula Nollenberger; Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

As medical devices become ever more sophisticated and smaller in size, the challenge for the component manufacturer is how to fit multiple functions into a limited space. Multi-component LSR technology offers a solution to this, that in addition, provides designers with the latitude and flexibility to enhance their applications.

By Ursula Nollenberger; Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

Silikon ist ein ideales Material für medizinische Geräte und Systeme. Das Elastomer ist nicht nur inert, biostabil und biokompatibel bei zugleich vorteilhaften physikalischen und haptischen Eigenschaften, es ist darüber hinaus auch auf vielfältige Weise verarbeitbar.

By Anrew Gaillard, Healthcare & Medical Segment Manager, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions.

The pros and cons of drug delivery and device enhancement.

With its stability and biocompatible properties, silicone is leading the way to a new generation of drug delivery products and enhanced medical devices that will profoundly improve patient care.

By Dan Sanchez, Product Manager at Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical

In an effort to design smaller, more intricate and complicated medical devices without running afoul of increasingly stringent national and international regulations, many designers are looking to geometric transition extrusions manufactured of high consistency rubber (HCR) silicone. This process reduces total cost of ownership for the original equipment manufacturer while improving part quality and greatly enhancing the types of devices being sought by healthcare medproviders.

By Dan Sanchez, Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical

Medtech companies have demanded increasingly complex geometries in medical tubing. Here’s a rundown of five manufacturing processes that could help them get there.

By Andrew Gaillard, Global Director and Jonathan Russell, Engineering Manager, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Healthcare & Medical, published in "Medical Design Briefs" September 2019

Trelleborg is a full-service supplier of finished medical devices involving silicone-API processing, assembly of sensor and insertion device, ready-to-use package and sterilization.

By Michelle Jacobson, published in Today's Medical Developments Magazine, July 2019

With component sourcing and supply chain management support from Trelleborg, Spinal Singularity developed the Connected Catheter to offer improved quality for users.

This article was first published in  Today's Medical Developments. 

By Ursula Nollenberger, published in "Rubber & Plastics News", May 2019

When it comes to the safety and efficiency of medical devices, lives could literally be on the line.

Whether it's a wearable pump for insulin or implantable delivery devices, proper dose regulation and biocompatibility are crucial.

By Mark Gordon and Andrew Gaillard; published in "MDT-Medical Design Technology", March 2019

As the medical device and pharmaceutical worlds continue to converge, extraordinary product designs are becoming reality

 Published in "DesignSolutions"

The technical possibilities with liquid silicone rubber (LSR) are endless and can be applied to numerous fields. This article demonstrates how LSR and two-component (or two-shot) injection molding technology can be used across a range of industries to produce innovative solutions.

By Ursula Nollenberger and Jarno Burkhardt published in "TODAY'S MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS"

O-Rings are the most popular seals used by design engineers due to their basic geometry and almost universal use. Read this article to learn more about how liquid silicone rubber (LSR) O-Rings are used for healthcare and medical applications.

This article was first published in  Today's Medical Developments. 

Published in "MDO"

Three production techniques can reduce the colonization of bacteria on devices made of silicone for placement inside the body. Tests have shown that the newest method shows promise.

Published in "Medical Design"

Today's  implantable medical devices require bio-friendly silicone that keeps fluids flowing even when space is tight..

Published in Medical Design Technology

Transdermal drug delivery systems have several benefits over traditional methods. Read this article for more information on how liquid silicone rubber can be successfully transformed into microneedle patches designed for this particular use.

Medical patches have been around for a long time, but new versions with tiny needles could revolutionize drug-delivery. This article takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities microneedle technology offers.

Isolast® FFKMs combine the resilience and sealing force of an elastomer with the chemical inertness and thermal stability of PTFE. ISO 14644-1 certified cleanliness of components throughout the supply chain makes them ideal for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology equipment, such as mass spectrometers.

What our customers should expect from companies within their supply chain.

Medical Design Technology, September 2014