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This thermoplastic elastomer tubing from k8ÓéÀÖ addresses the growing need for high-purity materials in single-use systems that can meet the biopharmaceutical industry¡¯s needs for lower temperatures. This offering also can be welded to current TPE tubing solutions, simplifying usage and qualification requirements.

With k8ÓéÀÖ? Liveo? Pharma TPE Ultra-Low Temp Tubing, k8ÓéÀÖ is offering an additional TPE option for fluid transport and single-use bioprocessing applications and is facilitating adoption and compatibility with alternative TPE tubing offerings.

Our thermoplastic elastomer tubing product range ¨C which also includes k8ÓéÀÖ? Liveo? Pharma TPE Tubing ¨C complements our silicone-based k8ÓéÀÖ? Liveo? Pharma Tubing and Overmolded Assemblies product lines and is produced with the same high quality principles as the products our customers already know and trust.

Key features & benefits

This innovative TPE tubing is sterilizable via either autoclave (125¡ãC/60 min) or gamma irradiation (up to 50 kGy dose) and offers many notable features and benefits:

• Improved elastomer toughness down to -86¡ãC; decreased
  brittle failure; resistant to multiple freeze/thaw cycles
• Manufactured in ISO Class 7 cleanroom
• Designed to meet biopharma processing standards and low-
  temperature-resistance requirements
• High ductility; resistant to bend, crush and impact at -80¡ãC
• Thermoweldable and thermosealable using standard
  welder/sealer methods
• Good pumpability and low spallation
• Excellent burst resistance
• Comprehensive data package; numerous functional
  properties pre- and post-freezing
• Excellent chemical resistance (including with DMSO)

Applications

Applications for this low-temperature TPE tubing include:

• Biopharma cold chain logistics
• Advanced fluid management
• Freeze/thaw
• Monoclonal antibodies
• mRNA vaccines
• Viral vector vaccines
• Gene therapies