Foster Corporation’s Distribution business, a company offering material solutions for the critical application healthcare market segment, and Ascend Performance Materials, a company that manufactures and markets nylon-based materials and technologies, have announced new Hi-Dura MED grade nylon (PA) based materials for the high-performance medical device market. Foster will distribute these products to this market.

The Ascend medical product line includes three products:

The products have been tested, and passed, for compliance to ISO 10993-5. Additionally, Ascend plans to launch more nylon based medical products in 2023 to expand the initial product line.

“Foster was appointed as a distributor for Ascend in the medical market earlier in 2022 and has worked closely with Ascend in the development of this product line and is pleased to be one of Ascend’s marketing partners for these products,” said Larry Johnson, president of Foster Distribution. “Nylon 6,6 has been an underused material resource in the medical device community, mainly because not many nylon 6,6 producers have addressed the market up until now. Ascend has done a great job in assessing medical customer needs and coming out with an initial product line that addresses the needs they observed.”