Peak Performance Compounding highlights medical offering

Peak Performance Compounding now offers medical polymer compounding in a dedicated white room environment. 

Peak’s work in the medical material community aims to offer fast lead times, no minimum run sizes, and flexibility with customer requirements. Peak’s staff understand the needs of the medical device market and adheres to the quality and regulatory standards of the industry.

The 1,000 square foot white room is climate controlled and equipped with a 32mm co-rotating twin-screw extruder, which is dedicated to medical material processing. This medical compounding line offers multiple feeders for dispersion of highly filled materials and is suited to process commodity resins (including PE, PP, PS, and ABS), engineering polymers (including PEBA, PA 11/12, and PC) and high-temperature materials (including PEEK, PAEK, PEKK, PSU, and PEI).

Todd Marchand, president of Peak Performance Compounding, said: "Our team has extensive experience in medical material processing, and we look forward to serving medical manufacturers with the highest degree of material quality and service.”

Compounding capabilities include custom-coloured polymers and radio pacifier materials (using barium sulphate, bismuth subcarbonate, bismuth oxychloride & tungsten) for Class I and Class II medical device applications, including minimally invasive devices and components.