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Topas Advanced Polymers honored for contributions to packaging

Topas Advanced Polymers GmbH receives the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership for its contribution to the Medical and Pharmaceutical Packaging industry.

Topas Advanced Polymers, which produces a family of exceptional polymers with applications in medical device and packaging manufacture, is honoured to announce that it has received the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership for its contribution to the Medical and Pharmaceutical Packaging industry .

The Award for Technology Leadership is bestowed each year upon the company that has demonstrated excellence in technology leadership within their industry. “The recipient company has demonstrated technology leadership by excelling in all stages of the technology life cycle and by innovating leading-edge concepts the company has pioneered client applications,” Frost & Sullivan said.

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Cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs) are crystal clear amorphous materials based on cyclic and linear olefins. Advances in manufacturing technology have allowed this material to become commercially viable only recently

Topas exhibits a unique combination of properties including high transparency, low density, excellent moisture barrier and resistance to aqueous and polar organic media. These qualities, together with the polymers’ good mechanical characteristics – which include high rigidity and strength – and their high purity, and high biocompatibility, mean that they represent the material of choice for an increasing number of applications in the medical and diagnostics sectors.

“Topas Advanced Polymers has successfully blended the technological benefits of Topas® with effective marketing,” Frost & Sullivan commented. “It is at the forefront of changing the prefilled syringe industry as it is today and paving the future for polymers.”

The applications of COCs are not limited to prefilled syringe design, but have also overcome the technical challenges of injector pens, auto-injectors and needle-free injectors, among other drug delivery devices. Outside healthcare, the polymers serve markets such as flexible and rigid packaging, optical and diagnostic applications.

Topas Advanced Polymers

Topas Advanced Polymers manufactures and markets Topas COC for advanced packaging, medical, optical and other applications worldwide. It also supplies Crystal Dew® COC, which adds decorative highlights to many settings, and the chemical raw material norbornene. It is a joint venture of Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd., and Polyplastics Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, it has a U.S. subsidiary in Florence, Ky., and operates a 30,000-metric ton/year COC plant, the world’s largest, in Oberhausen, Germany. Topas Advanced Polymers was launched January 1, 2006, following the purchase of the Topas business from Ticona, a subsidiary of Celanese Corporation.

Read details of the story; 'Daicel Chemical Industries and Polyplastics Co. to form joint venture in Germany for the Ticona COC business acquistion from Celanese Corporation.'

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