Global industry-leading manufacturer of high-performance, innovative solutions and components across a wide range of industries.
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Industry-leading provider of material science-based solutions in the biopharmaceutical and cell therapy markets for single-use fluid management.
Medical Components and Custom Solutions
We provide custom components and engineered systems for the medical device industry, including critical parts where precision enables superior performance.
Electronics and Semiconductor Industry Solutions
Design and manufacture a complete line of ultra-high purity, fluoropolymer-based fluid handling components and solutions for the electronics and semiconductor markets.
Fluid Transfer
Superior engineering and customer support to achieve safety, performance, and regulatory compliance across a broad range of capabilities. Product markets include Chemicals, Food and Beverage, Laboratory and Environmental Testing, Surface Protection.
Sealing Solutions
Leader in custom silicone seal manufacturing. We provide customers with ready-to-use seals, peace of mind solutions, and best-in-class services to ensure your satisfaction.
Saint-Gobain is a leading manufacturer of high-performance tubing made from thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), such as our Tygon tubing. Our engineers possess extensive material and process knowledge, and we'll work side-by-side with your team throughout the development and life cycle of your product. Here’s a look at why thermoplastic elastomers are ideal materials for your application.
What are Thermoplastics?
Thermoplastics are polymers that can be repeatedly melted, shaped, formed, and then cooled back into solids. Some common thermoplastics include polycarbonate, ABS and nylon. Thermoplastic elastomers are a class of copolymers – usually mixing a thermoplastic with a rubber component. Thermoplastic elastomers (including polyolefins, polyurethanes and other block copolymers) have great thermal properties, wide durometer ranges, can be optically clear or opaquely colored, and combines the ease of manufacturing of a thermoplastic with the elasticity and compression set properties of an elastomer.
Why choose Thermoplastics for the Medical industry?
Thermoplastics are a great choice for medical device components due to their ability to be easily sterilized, recyclable, and have good chemical resistance. Thermoplastic materials are commonly tested to meet USP <88> , Plastic Class VI, showcasing good biocompatibility properties. There is a wide array of materials and grades available in the market as well as customization services to find the right material option for the application. Common thermoplastic applications include fluid transfer, drug delivery, inhalation, and pump applications.
Saint-Gobain’s teams of engineers and chemists offer extensive material and process knowledge to meet your most demanding applications and design needs for your medical device. Utilizing our co-development process, we'll work side by side with your team throughout the development and life cycle of your product.
Tygon® LCF is a medical grade, low coefficient of friction tubing made from a proprietary thermoplastic elastomeric formulation available directly from
TYGON® MPF-300 is a medical grade, clear non-PVC polymer flexible tubing that is designed to replace PVC in medical devices in which DEHP plasticizers and
