New LCP Monofilament Allows for MRI Guided Vascular Intervention
LCPs - liquid crystal polymers - are thermoplastic resins that exhibit unique properties. These materials have many distinctive and desirable traits including exceptional mechanical strength, heat tolerance for autoclaving, and chemical inertness. LCP materials have found favor in many high performance applications from automotive and aerospace parts to electronic and medical devices.
“Our proprietary extrusion process has produced a superior LCP monofilament with utilitarian properties for the medical device industry,” says Emily Barnes, global market manager, CRM/EP at Zeus. “LCP monofilament has all of the significant properties of LCPs but also provides excellent torque response, pushability, and kink resistance.” She goes on to note that because catheter based minimally invasive procedures have expanded into various medical disciplines, the potential applications for this LCP monofilament are broad. “Many of these applications where catheters are employed would benefit from our LCP monofilament,” says Barnes.
LCP monofilament is easily braided with industry-standard equipment. The fiber likewise displays less fraying (“bird nesting”) than comparable monofilament and multifilament fibers during the braiding process, resists kinking, and can be wound onto Steeger and Wardwell bobbins and DIN 160 spools. Class VI approved, LCP monofilament provides a means to eliminate metal catheter shafts; it is autoclavable and can be supplied with tight tolerances in customizable sizes and profiles.
LCP monofilament will have its official launch at MD&M Minneapolis, September 21-22. Barnes and others from Zeus will be on-hand at the conference to answer questions.
About Zeus Industrial Products, Inc.
Zeus Industrial Products, Inc., is headquartered in Orangeburg, SC, USA. Its core business is the development and precision extrusion of advanced polymeric materials. The company employs 1,250 people worldwide with manufacturing facilities in Aiken, Gaston, and Orangeburg, South Carolina; Branchburg, New Jersey; and Letterkenny, Ireland. Zeus products and services serve companies in the medical, automotive, aerospace, fiber optics, energy, and fluid management markets. For more information, visit www.zeusinc.com.
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