Hygiene, Health & Beauty Market
 Health care encompasses many areas—from medicines that we take, to products that we use to improve our appearance. One constant is that many of these products are made using our materials.
Kynar Rx is the latest technology for critical fluid contact applications and is based on the long history of excellence expected from Kynar® resin. This new technology is being utilized by the Biopharmaceutical industry to create a complete Single Use Bioprocessing system with “Kynar® in contact”; bags, tubing, fittings and filters.
Our hydrazine hydrate is a raw material used in hypersensitive and anti-parasitic drugs, as well as the synthesis of anti-cancer drugs. And our thioglycolic acids are used extensively in hair removal creams. Oxygenated solvents are used for both disenfectants and bleaching.
Arkema's Cristamid® Polyamide, Kynar® Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) and Kynar Flex PVDF®, Pebax® Resins, Orgasol® Powders, Platamid® HotMelt Adhesives, Rilsan® Fine Powder and Rilsan® Polyamide 11 & 12 are used in a variety of health and human care applications.
View our case study detailing the use of Rilsan® Fine Powders within the Health Care Equipment market. |
Pebax® Resin is extensively used in the medical industry, particularly in medical delivery catheters. Due to their intrinsic flexibility (no plasticizers), good touch feel, excellent processability, superior torque transference, resistance to softening in the body, Pebax® Resin makes an excellent choice for the medical instrument field. These grades of Pebax® Resin are sterilizable with various methods, RF weldable and have a USP class VI clearance.
We're also making it easier for people to take their medicine through use of a transdermal patch using Pebax® Resin and our methylene chloride helps in the development of cleaning products and disinfectants. |
| With Lotryl™ Resin, Arkema functionalized polyolefins offers a range of ethylene-acrylic ester copolymers that respond to the very specific needs of this rapidly evolving market. |
| Arkema is committed to developing building blocks, catalysts, protecting groups, and process aids for the pharmaceutical industry. |
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