Health
In clinics and hospitals, KEM ONE PVC can not only be found in the buildings. It forms part of medical equipement.
Medical ally for half a century
PVC has been an ally of health professionals for half a century now. More than 25% of medical equipment manufactured from synthetic materials is made of PVC.
PVC is resistant, flexible, easy to sterilise, chemically stable, well tolerated by the human body and provides a perfect seal. It is used in many public-health applications, several of which are absolutely vital to patients: blood bags, catheters, oxygen masks, surgical gloves, sterile packaging, tubes and conduits.
PVC is the only plastic material authorised by European pharmacopoeias for packaging and storing blood.
Synthesis & cleaning thanks to methylene
Kem One methylene is also used in health and pharmaceutical sectors. This specific chloromethane is efficient for extraction of active compounds from raw materials, purification of finals products and formulation of active pharmaceutical ingredient. Methylene also ensures a clean production environment.
See also
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Automobile
In recent years PVC use has increased in automobile manufacturing. Today we consider that each car contains on average 10 to 16 kg of the material.
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Construction
KEM ONE products have numerous applications in the sectors of construction and public works. They therefore help to make our daily life more comfortable, safer and more attractive.
