Company Profile | September 9, 1999

Porex Technologies

Source: Porex Porous Products Group
Featuring molded porous plastic, PTFE membrane and bicomponent fiber materials, POREX is committed to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction. Serving a diverse group of customers in the healthcare, consumer and industrial markets, the Porous Products Group focuses on applications that include filtration, venting, wicking, and muffling. Our manufacturing plants in North America, Europe and Asia provide both standard and custom components to our customers through a global network of sales engineers, agents, and distributors. Proprietary manufacturing techniques give us the ability to fabricate porous plastic materials into unique dimensional shapes, meeting specific design engineering needs.

Custom components are designed and built to meet specific customer requirements. When you work with Porex to create your medical or diagnostic device, we become indispensable members of your design team. POREX® Porous Plastics have the ability to provide molded three-dimensional shapes and complex configurations affording you unlimited design possibilities. From rapid prototype development to high volume manufacturing, we'll help you get your product to market fast.

We offer:

  • A wide variety of solvent resistant biocompatible polymers, including PTFE
  • Standard products available in sheets, rolls, rods, and molded shapes
  • Pore sizes from 1 to 1000 microns
  • Controlled wicking and liquid absorption rates
  • Clean room facilities, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
  • Hydrophobic and hydrophilic media
  • Self-sealing HDPE vent materials
  • Continuous venting MUPOR™ PTFE Membrane.
  • Composite materials
  • Custom blended fiber components

    Some Typical Applications include:

  • Materials for Drug Delivery
  • Sample Preparation
  • Components for Lateral Flow Immunoassays
  • Components for Flow Through Immunoassays
  • Vents for IV Catheters and Other Medical Devices
  • Self-Sealing Vents for Suction Canisters

    POREX Porous Products Group understands what it means to be an OEM partner. New customer needs are being developed every day requiring a mix of engineering knowledge, product development skill, manufacturing capability and the ability to deliver custom components around the globe. Working together, we can apply innovative porous plastics technologies to your most challenging applications.

    Contact Information
    POREX Porous Products Group
    500 Bohannon Rd.
    Fairburn, GA 30213-2828
    Phone: 800-565-8777 770-964-1421
    Fax: 770-969-0954
    Email: porous_info@porex.com

    Porex GmbH
    Industriestrasse 1
    D-02692 Bautzen/Singwitz
    Germany
    +49 (0) 3591 37220
    +49 (0) 3591 44531
    hotmail@porex.de

    Porex Products Malaysia Sdn. Bnd.
    23 B Lorong Keluli 1 C
    Kawasan Perindustrian Bukit Raja Selatan
    Seksyen 7, 41050 Bandar Shah Alan
    Selangor, Malaysia
    60-3-3343-4828
    60-3-3341-3308
    porexmalaysia@po.jaring.my