— INDUSTRY
Medical & healthcare
Medical polypropylene and HDPE go into single-use devices, drug delivery, labware, diagnostics and pharmaceutical packs. Here the order of choice is reversed: documentation first, properties second.
APPLICATIONS
— APPLICATIONS
Medical & healthcare applications
Start from the part you make. Each page explains what the part asks of the polymer and lists the grades that fit.
A syringe barrel that clouds cannot be read, and a part that yellows after irradiation is rejected before it reaches a patient.
Producer statements set the boundaries. Device and pack makers start with what the producer states about a grade: its permitted uses, its restrictions and how changes are notified. Qualification stays with the maker, who knows the patient, the drug and the market.
Devices and labware split the PP families. Clear random copolymer is the usual choice for disposable syringe barrels; stiff homopolymer goes into pipette tips, PCR and deep-well plates and diagnostic housings. Auto-injectors, insulin pens, inhalers and other drug delivery devices are assembled from many small moulded parts, PP among them. See polypropylene for medical devices.
Packs and containers. In pharmaceutical packaging, PP goes into blister packs, medical film and infusion bags, polyethylene or PP into blow-fill-seal containers, and HDPE into bottles and jerry cans. Sharps containers are commonly moulded in PP. Healthcare closures are covered with tethered caps and closures, and spunbond and meltblown PP for masks, gowns, drapes and wipes on meltblown and spunbond nonwovens.
The sterilisation route narrows the choice early. Tell us the device and its route, and we will propose grades to evaluate.
— AT A GLANCE
Usual polymer route per application
Medical devices & labware
Random or homo PP
Clarity, stiffness and a stated sterilisation route
Drug delivery devices
Homo or random PP
Stiff, precise parts that fit and move over device life
Pharmaceutical packaging
PP or HDPE
Blister packs, infusion film, bottles and BFS
Caps & closures
PP or HDPE
Seal, opening force and healthcare paperwork
Nonwovens
PP homopolymer
Meltblown and spunbond layers for masks and gowns
— GRADES
Grades we can supply
Grouped by polymer family. Open an application above for the shortlist that fits one part.
PP homopolymer
PP random copolymer
HDPE
— PRODUCERS
Producers for this industry
— NEED HELP CHOOSING?
Not sure which grade fits?
Tell us if it is a device, a pack or a nonwoven, and where you sell it.
Device makers answer for material choice under the Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745. For a medicine, the marketing authorisation applicant files the pack data, which the pack maker supplies, with reference to the European Pharmacopoeia where a chapter applies. Producer regulatory summaries can state, grade by grade, which pharmacopoeia chapters a grade meets and which USP biological tests were run.
The immediate packaging of medicines, and contact-sensitive packaging of medical devices, is exempt from the recycled-content targets of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40.
— FAQ
Common questions
Not as a defined property, so we do not call any grade by that name. Suitability comes from producer documentation for a stated use: the data sheet, the safety data sheet and a regulatory summary listing the pharmacopoeia or biological tests run on representative samples. The device or pack maker then qualifies the finished product.
Polypropylene homopolymers and random copolymers, and HDPE, for device parts, labware, diagnostics, pharmaceutical packs and healthcare closures. We do not promise suitability on a website. We match grades to the use you describe, route the documents and ask for change-notification terms with your samples.
Some producers hold Drug Master Files with the US FDA for healthcare resins. Whether one exists for a given grade, and if your filing may reference it, is for the producer to confirm. Tell us the grade and the filing, and we will ask the producer for a letter of authorisation.
