Waldkraiburg, March 24, 2010. At the Chinaplas 2010, being held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from April 19 to 22, 2010, KRAIBURG TPE will once again be demonstrating its involvement in the Asian market. The highlight at Booth W2C61: The newly developed THERMOLAST® M group of products. It offers customers in the pharmaceuticals and medical markets safe and economical handling of materials that will later come into direct contact with media that ultimately pass into the human bloodstream. Thus KRAIBURG TPE is one of the few companies to offer products in Asia that satisfy the same high safety and quality standards as in Europe. This is also in line with the basic mission at KRAIBURG TPE: To offer customers everywhere identical global standards and thus products and services at the highest level. The focus on the Asia-Pacific region continues to be a major thrust in the company’s strategy, and this has been crowned with considerable success. KRAIBURG TPE was able to fully meet its sales targets in 2009 and has already booked considerable order volumes for 2010. Involvement in the Asian market is reflected in the KRAIBURG TPE Web site, too. Beginning on 22nd of March, 2010, customers will have access to information presented in German, English and Mandarin.

THERMOLAST^® M: innovative compounds for the pharma and medical markets
The THERMOLAST^® M brand embraces five series of compounds intended for use in the pharmaceuticals and medical markets. These include materials that can be used up to the liability risk level associated with indirect contact with the blood. “Our market research has revealed that safety aspects represent the major concern in the field of medicine,” reports CEO Franz Hinterecker. That is why this TPE specialist offers its clients a unique service package. Certificates issued as per all the usual medical technology approval standards, such as DIN ISO 10993/5/10/11 and USP Class VI, attest to the suitability of these compounds for direct contact with medicaments. Over and above that, extraction studies conducted by impartial agencies confirm the quality of the THERMOLAST^® M compounds. “That makes us one of the few companies to offer products meeting stringent European standards on the Asian market, too,” according to Roland Ritter, Director for Asia-Pacific operations.  

KRAIBURG TPE in Asia: close to the customers and high quality standards
Since August of 2008 this TPE manufacturer has operated its own production facility at Selangor, near the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. From this point the company serves the Asian market, delivering a broad line of standard formulae for a wide range of applications (THERMOLAST®). These are augmented with individually customized compounds. That plant, just like the production facilities in Germany and the U.S.A., complies with the “DIN EN ISO 9001:2008” international quality management standard. And just as at those other sites, the market is served by technical teams specialized to respond to the diverse requests put forth by customers in the medical technology, automotive and consumer goods industries. Local presence such as this lets KRAIBURG TPE support all its customers in Asia with products, services and know-how – all within the shortest possible time. New and future Chinese customers will soon be able to obtain information even more quickly and conveniently. The Mandarin version of the www.kraiburg-tpe.com Web site is scheduled to go online on 22nd of March, 2010, just as Chinaplas 2010 opens its doors.

KRAIBURG TPE (www.kraiburg-tpe.com) manufactures thermoplastic elastomers based on HSBC (hydrogenated styrene block copolymers) and markets them all around the world. In addition to custom solutions, the company offers under the THERMOLAST^® brand name a broad spectrum of standardized compounds to cover a wide range of applications. With its high-performance HIPEX^® compound, KRAIBURG TPE is opening up the world of rubber for all the companies that process thermoplastics. The TPE specialist has production sites in Germany, the USA and Malaysia. KRAIBURG TPE also maintains sales offices in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, China and India.