Foster Adds Specialty TPU and TPU Alloy Products to its Arsenal of Healthcare Materials

Foster Corp.’s distribution business has been appointed as the marketing partner for AdvanSource Biomaterials, a group company of Mitsubishi Chemical. As such, Foster Distribution has added specialty TPUs and TPU alloys to its arsenal of materials for the healthcare market. Foster’s role will entail application development, sales, and technical support, of these AdvanSource materials in the North American healthcare market from its U.S. locations in Connecticut and Nevada.

AdvanSource Biomaterials has developed, and offers for sale, an impressive line of TPU products for implantable and non-implantable healthcare applications. Their TPU technologies include aliphatic PC, aromatic PC, aromatic polyether, aliphatic ether, hydrophilic, as well as PC silicone elastomers and soft aromatic TPU alloys. Healthcare application segments include cardiology, orthopedics, drug delivery, endoscopy, wound care, urology, and neurology among others.

 “Foster knows TPU very well,” says Larry Acquarulo, President/Owner of Foster Corporation. “Our two companies have been talking about a sales/marketing relationship for a while. We are actually a customer of AdvanSource and have always been impressed with the quality of their product and their breadth of technology and elastomer solutions. Foster processes and sells materials for implantable applications which is also a market that AdvanSource participates in. This parallel interest makes this partnership a great match.”