Medical Permeability
 
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About Versaperm

Versaperm manufactures gas permeability testing equipment, offers a comprehensive permeability testing service and a materials consultancy. These are used to measure gas permeability and leakage, important in medical and pharmaceutical packaging, foils and films, coatings, food and confectionery packaging and contents, and many other applications.

Instruments

Versaperm designs and manufactures instruments to meet each customer’s needs. Instruments are typically be based on a modular MkVI design.

Testing Service


Our laboratory testing service has over 30 years experience to enable us to choose the best technique to measure your sample's permeability both quickly and accurately.

 

Sensors

Our diverse and growing range of sensors are based on fundamentally different and divergent physical principals. The choice of the right sensor for an application is critical in the successful deployment of the equipment. We are not tied to a sensor manufacturer.

Gases / Vapours

At Versaperm we can measure the permeability for almost any gas / vapour including water vapour, Oxygen, CO2 Hydrogen, Helium, Nitrogen and Hydrocarbons.

Applications

Consultancy

Our Consultancy division combines our theoretical and practical Permeability skills in instrument design and manufacture. Permeability Consultancy

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Medical Permeability

Water vapour is everywhere and permeability causes more problems to medical products than most other things put together. It can de-activate and contaminate drugs as well as cause medical devices to fail. Yet it is incredibly useful when, for example, as superheated steam it sterilises bandages and syringes actually through the packaging.

 


Medical Permeability

Medical Permeability

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The only way to ensure that no material with an inappropriate vapour permeability is used in medical products and dressings is to test them. This is particularly the case in drug packaging and capsules as the permeability of a finished package is often wildly different to that of the materials it is made from >

It can be used on huge range of medical, laboratory, drug and QC materials, containers and packages – from foil laminates on unitary dose blister packs to inhalers and from analytical instrument enclosures and seals through to packaging. It can also provide measurements of substances that might otherwise be decomposed by normal water content measuring techniques


Permeability can reduce waste in medicinal products and prolong active life and potency of pharmaceuticals

Vapour permeability is the measure of how strongly a medical material or package can resist the barrier passage of any gas (such as water vapour, Oxygen, CO2 or a hydrocarbon).  Vapour permeability dramatically affects the physical characteristics of most products and materials, from syringes to inhalers.

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