Foster Offers Comprehensive Fluoropolymer Compounding

Dayville, CT (January 2002) - As the global leader in material solutions for the medical industry, Foster Corporation has added comprehensive fluoropolymer compounding to its range of thermoplastic solutions. Foster's full-service material compounding utilizes the most advanced equipment and technologies required to meet the extensive quality and performance requirements of leading technology markets.

A complete source for fluoropolymer and thermoplastic material solutions is especially valuable for extrusion and molding suppliers to performance industries, such as medical, where applications can use a wide variety of materials in varying quantities. Until now, many of these manufacturers purchased such materials from numerous sources with varying levels of quality control and lot traceability.

Foster now offers one-stop-shopping for manufacturers who have purchase requirements for a wide variety of fluoropolymers and thermoplastics in various quantities.

According to Foster president Larry Acquarulo, "One-stop-materials-shopping offers more consistency, easier batch tracing and improved quality throughout the device. The significant challenge in developing expertise in both thermoplastics and fluoropolymers is a good reason why traditional material suppliers have specialized in only one. But the value to our customers of offering the comprehensive range of material solutions is an even better reason for us to offer both."

Foster Corporation is a global market leader in design, development and delivery of specialty thermoplastic and fluoropolymer solutions for medical, electronic and other niche industrial markets. The company's Applied Polymer Development group provides material, process and design contract engineering services for these target markets. For more information, please call 860.774.3964.