EPP (Expanded polypropylene) is an engineered plastic foam material. By combining polypropylene resin with magic dust, and applying heat, pressure and CO2 in an autoclave, the material is formed into small plastic beads. These small, closed-cell foam beads are injected into a steam chest to create parts custom moulded into complex shapes using steam heat & pressure.
EPP foam beads raw material is widely known as ARPRO® which is manufactured by JSP, the global leader in producing & supplying EPP beads material.
In the pharmaceutical and medical industry, EPP has been approved to be a good packaging solution to protect medical devices, instruments, vials and other sensitive, fragile components.Products such as medicines, prostheses and hygienic products place particularly high demands on packaging, for sterility, protection, temperature-control and security which can be met by EPP. The custom-molded EPP packaging provides both thermal management and protection when shipping lifesaving products such as medicines, organs, test serums and live tissue.
What's more, EPP also works well as an interior chassis for some medical devices and equipment.A key benefit of EPP is that it can be molded into complex shapes without losing its resiliency. Components such as tubes, pumps, circuit boards, fans, and power supplies are simply snapped into various channels and cavities that are molded into the EPP chassis.Then the EPP foam serves as a mechanism to assemble the medical device.Using molded EPP foam to create a chassis that holds the components securely in place offers significant benefits to medical manufacturers that are willing to change their approach to medical product design.
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