Porex Medical

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Component suppliers and finished goods manufacturers of children’s coloring markers need to be acutely aware of the recent changes to regulations and must comply with EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC. It is imperative that manufacturers of writing instruments intended for children’s use purchase components from reputable suppliers who test and confirm that their components comply with this Directive. Porex Corporation is a leading supplier of porous plastic and fiber nib components, which are utilized in writing instruments worldwide, including children’s coloring markers.

Porex has been designing and developing fluid transfer (wicking) systems utilizing porous plastic materials for over 50 years. In addition to our material science and component design expertise, we offer a wide variety of material options – from thermoplastic polymers to synthetic fibers. Porex wicking components are designed with open-cell pore structures that control liquid volume capacity and fluid transfer rates, and we have the ability to alter the surface energy of the materials to further enhance media capillarity.

Porex has been designing porous plastic support and retention media for over 30 years. Our time-tested expertise in material science, customized material type selection, and part design can assist in the success of your product development goals.

Performance-driven, time-tested Porex material technologies deliver a wide range of possibilities designed to overcome your most complex product challenges. For over 50 years, we have engineered custom porous plastic solutions for a multitude of product applications across multiple industries. In addition to our material science and porous media application expertise, we offer a full line of versatile raw materials and global production capabilities to meet your diverse market needs.

Porex has been designing porous plastic support and retention media for over 30 years. Our time-tested expertise in material science, material type selection, and part design has been applied across a variety of industries – from textiles to bioscience. The end-use applications for Porex media support products are as diverse as capturing functional additives like activated carbon in water filtration media to retention of sorbent material in chromatography columns for bioscience applications.

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