Bluestar Silicones LSRs produced in ISO 8 and ISO 7 certified clean rooms

Bluestar Silicones  presented its Silbione® Biomedical Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) product line for long-term implant applications at  the recent Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West Conference  held from February 9-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

 

Available in 01 through 70 Shore A hardnesses, Silbione Biomedical LSRs offer outstanding physical properties for targeted product design.  The formulations are designed to maintain consistent lot-to-lot properties helping customers improve processing, cycle time, and part quality.

 

Silbione Biomedical LSRs are produced and packaged in certified and accredited ISO 8 and ISO 7 clean rooms in York, S.C.   Bluestar Silicones also offers smaller packaging options for these materials in 400 ml side by side cartridges and two gallon pail kits.

 

Karen O’Keefe, Bluestar Silicones' business director for North America said that the company is proud of the quality, consistency, productivity and service it brings to long term implant market. With the newly certified clean rooms, Bluestar Silicones is raising the bar to what customers should expect from a raw material supplier in the medical arena.  

 

Bluestar Silicones’ 226,000 sq. ft. facility in York, S.C., including ISO 8 and ISO 7 clean rooms and enhanced quality systems, is the company’s global center of excellence for implant-grade silicones.  With prior experience in long-term implantable applications, Bluestar offers the broad know-how, unique formulations, and global regulatory support, including Master File support with the FDA, to service the specific needs of the implantable silicone market.

 

 

In addition to its long term implant offering, Bluestar Silicones promoted its Silbione® soft silicone adhesives for wound, scar, transdermal and wearable device applications. Bluestar Silicones now offers the highest tack level available for enhanced, yet gentle adhesion to the skin. High tack Silbione® RT Gel 4642 enables coaters to achieve improved adhesion levels to the skin at lower coat weights than other materials currently available on the market. 

 

For electronic applications, Bluestar Silicones offers Bluesil™ ESA, a primerless system designed to bond to most plastics and metals. The product line offers excellent deep-section cure with no released by-products, excellent dielectric properties, thermal management and corrosion resistance.

 

In addition, Bluestar Silicones offers a full range of silicone technologies for the healthcare market including high consistency rubbers (HCR), room-temperature vulcanized silicones (RTVs), skin adhesive tacky gels, cushioning gels and permanent adhesives for the healthcare market.