• INEOS Styrolution’s Styroflex® 4G80 named as the new material in Custom Profile’s medical tubing solutions for medical device designers

Advantages with production, performance, and regulatory compliance make INEOS Styrolution’s Styroflex 4G80, the clear material of choice for Custom Profile’s medical tubing market

Custom Profile, a leading manufacturer of thermoplastic profile extrusions and sub-assemblies, has selected Styroflex 4G80 from INEOS Styrolution, the global leader of styrenics, to supply medical device designers with safe and innovative, next generation medical tubing options.

Styroflex 4G80, a styrene butadiene block copolymer (SBC) has the ability to be processed into a variety of tubing sizes, offering engineers an alternative to existing medical tubing options. It is both a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer (S-TEP, TPE-S) and a styrene butadiene styrene styrene-block copolymer (SBSS). The material provides cost and performance advantages while meeting ISO 10993, USP Class VI, and food contact regulations. Custom Profile will extrude this material into medical tubing using its existing production equipment and leverage its processing advantages such as lower temperature for energy savings with greater material yields.

Medical device designers, looking for alternatives to existing options in the medical tubing market, are working to find materials that comply with current and future regulatory trends.  Medical tubing extruded by Custom Profile from Styroflex 4G80 is a phthalate-free option that offers many processing advantages. The result is a clean, safe, cost-effective medical tubing that meets a variety of applications’ requirements.

 “Custom Profile is now a key part of the supply chain for safe, clean medical tubing,” said Steve Maxson, Custom Profile, vice president of sales and marketing. “Through our partnerships with INEOS Styrolution for Styroflex 4G80 and Chamfr for sales and distribution, our employee-owned company is supporting the development of next-generation medical devices.”

Alexander Silvestre, global director, healthcare for INEOS Styrolution says, “We are very pleased that Custom Profile selected Styroflex 4G80 as the solution for their next-generation of medical tubing.  Styroflex 4G80 combines transparency, elasticity, and excellent processability. Mr. Silvestre continues, “The material is compatible with common solvent systems, has excellent bond strength for medical tubing to other fluid delivery devices, and is ideal for meeting industries processing and application requirements.”

About INEOS Styrolution
INEOS Styrolution is the leading global styrenics supplier, with a focus on styrene monomer, polystyrene, ABS Standard and styrenic specialties. With world-class production facilities and more than 90 years of experience, INEOS Styrolution helps its customers succeed by offering solutions, designed to give them a competitive edge in their markets. At the same time, these innovative and sustainable best-in-class solutions help make the circular economy for styrenics a reality. The company provides styrenic applications for many everyday products across a broad range of industries, including automotive, electronics, household, construction, healthcare, packaging and toys/sports/leisure. In 2020, sales were at 4 billion euros. INEOS Styrolution employs approximately 3,600 people and operates 20 production sites in ten countries.

More information: www.ineos-styrolution.com
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About Custom Profile
Custom Profile is an employee-owned company that develops and manufactures specialty thermoplastic profile extrusions and sub-assemblies. We have three manufacturing facilities including Grand Rapids, MI, Camden, SC and Juarez, Mexico.

More information: www.custom-profile.com


Media contacts

April Ludwikowski

Marketing Communications Manager, Americas

INEOS Styrolution America LLC
4245 Meridian Parkway, Suite 151
Aurora, IL 60504
USA

Phone: +1 331.212.5757
Email:  april.ludwikowski[at]ineos.com

Steve Maxson

VP, Sales and Marketing
Custom Profile
2535 Waldorf Ct NW # A, Grand Rapids, MI 49544

Phone: 616-735-4410
Email: smaxson[at]custom-profile.com