Innovation in healthcare is driven by companies developing cutting-edge solutions for safer, more sustainable medical products. VinylPlus Healthcare supports and connects these efforts, ensuring that medical applications made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) continue to evolve while meeting the highest environmental and performance standards.
Advancing Additives
Continuous innovation in DEHP-free plasticisers and other additives is enhancing the performance, safety, and sustainability of medical-grade vinyl. Industry-led research is advancing formulations to improve biocompatibility, durability, and environmental impact, ensuring that vinyl remains a trusted material in healthcare applications.
VinylPlus Healthcare serves as a platform for knowledge-sharing and collaboration, supporting the development and responsible use of cutting-edge additive technologies in medical vinyl.
Advancing Circularity
VinylPlus Healthcare's recycling initiatives demonstrates that disposable vinyl-based medical devices can be collected and mechanically recycled into durable healthcare products, proving that circular solutions work in real-world settings.
Building on this approach, VinylPlus PharmPack® is extending circularity to pharmaceutical blister packaging, using dissolution technologies to improve recyclability while maintaining high safety and performance standards.
Through these initiatives, VinylPlus Healthcare is accelerating the transition to a more resource-efficient and sustainable medical sector.
Advancing Applications
Vinyl remains a preferred material for medical technology designers due to its unique technical properties, which are essential for high-performance healthcare products. As the most versatile plastic, it enables the development of advanced medical devices, diagnostic equipment, and other life-saving healthcare products.
VinylPlus Healthcare supports the industry in developing next-generation solutions, ensuring that vinyl-based medical products continue to meet the highest safety and regulatory standards while driving innovation in patient care.
Advancing Environmental Sustainability
Certified bio-attributed and bio-circular PVC resins, bio-based additives and bio-attributed medical-grade PVC compounds are now commercially available. Through certified mass-balance systems, renewable and circular feedstocks can be attributed to PVC production, offering opportunities to reduce reliance on fossil-based raw materials while maintaining the performance required for medical applications.
VinylPlus Healthcare supports the transition towards more sustainable material solutions by fostering collaboration across the PVC value chain to advance responsible sourcing, innovation and circularity in healthcare.