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Article: Cyclic olefin copolymer finds growing use in medical design.(Case In Point)
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- Medical Design Technology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The Project: Specify a polymer for high performance in a range of devices, diagnostic equipment, and packaging.
The Solution: Use COC in products for hospitals, medical laboratories, and other critical settings.
Medical designers are increasingly turning to a new polymer, cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) for high performance in devices, diagnostic equipment, and packaging. The plastic is proving to be a versatile material that works as well in prefilled syringes and drug blister packaging as in microtiter plates and microfluidic assemblies.
COC's attributes, which are outlined in Table 1, provide substantial room for innovation and cost savings. It ...