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products - Medical / Veterinary / Pharmaceutical
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Introduction
Rubber parts used in medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary applications have stringent quality requirements that include:
- use of tested and approved non toxic compounds.
- manufacture under clean room conditions.
- tight control of production processes to ensure precision parts with zero defects are manufactured
Resistance to a range of fluids and chemicals is required and elastomer components must remain relatively unaffected in contact with these chemicals.
Sterilization processes often involve the use of ethylene oxide, gamma radiation of live steam so elastomer compounds must be resistant to these materials.
Features and Benefits
- Gulf Rubber has clean room facilities for manufacturing rubber components to a range of medical requirements.
- Compounds with existing test data on cytotoxicity, bio compatibility and stability under various sterilization conditions are available.
- A wide range of valves, diaphragms, duck bills, o'rings and general mouldings are already manufactured for use in the medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary industries. Gulf Rubber can also assist in developing parts to perform a specific end use function.
- In house development and testing facilities.
Materials
- One way valves can be manufactured in a wide range of elastomers including natural rubber, SBR, NBR, EPDM, Silicone, Fluoroelastomer, Fluorosilicone, Polyurethane and Polyacrylate.
- Materials available with international potable water approvals including WRAS, WRC, BS6920-UK, ACS Afnor-France, KTW-Germany, AS4020-Australia & NZ, NSF 61-USA.
- In house compound development to design materials to optimise performance in customer’s application.
- In house testing of key compound properties for good long term performance such as stress relaxation, heat ageing, fluid ageing, ozone and chloramine resistance.
