meliflex offers advantages in medical packaging and devices:

• High cost effectiveness
• Specific gravity of 0,9 g/cm³
• Film gauge reduction up to 50% compared to flexible PVC
• Low heat-sealing temperature allowing fast welding times
• Wide sealing window for peal-sealing
• Flexibility without adding of plasticizers
• High frequency welding
• Easy processing and assembly
• No toxic emission during processing

meliflex offers advantages for health-care provides:

• Water vapour barrier properties superior to PVC
• Superior chemical resistance
• No significant leaching
• Good resistance to puncture and tearing
• Excellent see-through clarity
• Kink resistant tubing
• Sterilizable by autoclave at 121^oC, EtO, gamma and E-beam
• Good impact properties at low temperatures

meliflex offers advantages in disposal and waste handling:

• Cost of disposal reduced due to lower density and down gauge advantages
• Non-hazardous disposal
• Environmentally sound, i.e. 100% organic, emissions when incinerated