Silicone Altimex’s premium Platinum Cured Silicone tubing offers many benefits over traditional peroxide cured tubing. Platinum Tubing offers extremely high purity and very low leaching of bi-products. Due to the platinum catalyst curing system the crosslink density of the silicone polymer is altered which in turn offers enhanced physical properties along with ultra smooth surfaces, particularly useful in the bioprocess industry sector where reduced bacterial growth is an added benefit.
Platinum addition silicone tubing contains no phthalate plasticizers associated with other types of tubing and is manufactured totally free from animal derived components. Altimed Silicone Rubber Tubing is biocompatible to the ISO 10993 standard and meets fully USP Class VI, FDA, NSF and European Pharmacopoeia criteria.
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Platinum addition cured silicone (Altimed SA 450/60) offer the following benefits over
peroxide cured materials:-
- Predictable pump life
- None yellowing
- Free from cross linker by-products
- Free from PCB’s (Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls)
- Very tight surface cure
- No impairment of odour or taste
- Dry and non-sticky surface finish