PolyOne Presented with Frost & Sullivan Medical Product Award
September 14 2009 - 1:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Award recognizes market growth and sustainable product innovation
and support for global medical industry CLEVELAND, Sept. 14
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) today
announced it has received the Frost & Sullivan 2009 North
American Plastics in Medical Tubing & Catheters Product Line
Strategy of the Year Award. The award highlights PolyOne's
continuous innovations that provide sustainable solutions for the
medical industry. Walter Ripple, general manager, PolyOne's GLS
Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs), said, "Our R&D efforts include
creating new compounds that address environmental concerns such as
phthalates, while continuing to offer excellent performance and
aesthetics. Our Versaflex(TM) HC family of TPEs, made without
phthalates or halogens, helps our customers meet performance,
regulatory and environmental objectives." Frost & Sullivan, a
global research and consulting firm, presents the Product Line
Strategy Award to companies that most effectively address their
customer's diverse needs with regard to price, performance and
benefits. PolyOne was presented with this award in recognition of
its outstanding leadership in the plastics industry and exceptional
medical grade TPE technologies for drug and fluid delivery systems.
The growth of TPEs in the medical tubing market stems from the
materials' effectiveness as a replacement for traditional polymers.
GLS Versaflex(TM) HC MT medical grade TPE offers customers a
non-phthalate, halogen-free option designed to address this growing
trend, providing an alternative for a number of medical tubing
applications such as IV catheters, peristaltic pumps, and surgical
drainage tubing. About PolyOne PolyOne Corporation, with 2008
annual revenues of $2.7 billion, is a premier provider of
specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
Headquartered outside of Cleveland, Ohio USA, PolyOne has
operations around the world. For additional information on PolyOne,
visit our Web site at http://www.polyone.com/. PolyOne has
established the PolyOne Sustainable Solutions mark to denote those
products or services that meet defined standards for sustainability
in areas such as renew-ability, recycle-ability, reusability,
eco-conscious composition, or resource efficiency. To learn more,
go to http://www.polyone.com/sustain. To access PolyOne's news
library online, please go to http://www.polyone.com/news.
DATASOURCE: PolyOne CONTACT: Amanda Marko, Director, Corporate
Communications, +1-440-930-3162, Web Site: http://www.polyone.com/
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