Trelleborg focuses on its Integrated Solutions program that supports customers from the earliest product development stages, including rapid production-intent prototyping, through to delivery of finished, sterile packaged products and assembled devices. Integrated Solutions simplifies development and manufacturing systems, enhancing supply chains and logistics processes, and drives cost savings through bundled purchasing processes and consolidated audits, shipping and logistics.
By leveraging Trelleborg’s globally connected manufacturing network, all competencies are combined to provide partners with complete solutions. Through a globally standardized quality management system, Trelleborg ensures consistency and efficiency, and helps to reduce risks across all production processes.
Daniel Diffenderfer, Business Unit President of Trelleborg Medical Device Solutions Europe, says: “We support medical device and life science companies globally as a one-stop-shop for the design, development, prototyping and serial production of polymer-based solutions.
“At Compamed we will demonstrate our comprehensive portfolio of solutions for the medical device and life science sectors and engage in discussions about current challenges in medical technology as well as the requirements of contract manufacturers.”
Trelleborg will also showcase its customized solutions designed to meet the unique demands of cardiology applications. From pacemakers to valves and surgical equipment, Trelleborg innovations ensure safe procedures, enhance performance and ultimately improve patients’ quality of life.
Combining its vast polymer materials expertise and diverse capabilities including extrusion custom molding, overmolding and multicomponent molding, Trelleborg helps leading medical device companies bring their cardiovascular devices to market through refined designs and improved manufacturability.
Trelleborg also highlights the BioPharmaPro™ portfolio, a range of innovative products, materials and services for single-use systems (SUS). SUS solutions, made from various materials including thermoplastics, silicones and composites, can be processed into tubes, custom moldings, assemblies and many other applications. For example, lightweight and non-reactive BioPharmaPro™ advanced composite columns serve as a high-quality replacement for reusable systems made from stainless steel or acrylic. This is because the products, made from reinforced polypropylene thermoplastics, have exceptionally good mechanical properties that can also be recycled after use.
Trelleborg also showcases other topics at the show including micro injection molding. Trelleborg manufactures high-quality and durable silicones, elastomers and thermoplastics that make patient treatment and monitoring easier by making procedures less invasive and devices more portable.
As a development partner with its own Innovation Center in Plymouth, Minnesota, US, Trelleborg offers customers access to comprehensive expertise in the medical technology and biopharma industries which reduce time to market for manufacturers.
Chris Tellers, Director of the Innovation Center and New Product Development, says: “For healthcare and medical innovators looking to create high-performing products and measurably reduce go-to-market timelines, our team at the Innovation Center can create samples in days, enabling multiple design iterations to be tested to confirm effective production and rapid scale up. Engineers and product innovators get direct access to some of the best minds in materials science, design for manufacturability, tooling and prototyping, plus proven processes for improving critical outcomes in development and manufacturing.”
