Polysciences
The Bleeding Edge of Compliant Medical Coatings

Recent innovations in the development of high-tech polymer coatings have led to their increasingly versatile applications within the medical space. Research indicates that the global medical coatings market could grow from $6 billion in 2020 to $15 billion by 2025 with a CAGR of 20.5 percent. Speaking to the range of available options, there are several new coating materials in the market, such as PVPs, cauterized amine-containing materials, and poly-ionic materials. This, coupled with the regulations of ISO 134845 for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), have medical device manufacturers searching for materials specialists who can deliver coatings that are both compliant and augmentative to their devices. Enter Polysciences—a leading developer and manufacturer of custom medical device coatings.

Established in 1961, Polysciences is a subsidiary of Ott Scientific, a medical device component manufacturing organization with diverse device manufacturing companies under its umbrella. The company offers over 3000 research-grade materials which serve as efficient coatings for its client’s medical devices and consists of a highly experienced team of world-class scientists. Polysciences is also one of the only medical coating solution providers in the country that can offer custom-grade materials to its clients. The enterprise consists of multiple, flexibly designed manufacturing suites and ISO cleanrooms capable of producing materials and medical coating in different scales varying from a few grams to several tons. The company’s business process is based around the idea of working closely with its customers to create custom solutions and synthesize high purity cGMP monomer, polymers and intermediates for medical device coatings.

Always a hands-on partner to their clients, Polysciences can help their customers escalate smallscale operations to lab-scale and subsequently to commercial scale.

Polysciences uses its expertise in chemistry to partner with our clients in producing custom high quality specialty polymers and coatings to promote biocompatibility, lubricity, or other properties in medical devices

As Andrew Ott, COO of Polysciences adds, “In case the client already has access to the raw materials, we can help by processing the materials they need to develop a coating, optimize its efficiency, and validate it for use in their medical design.” Polysciences has and continues to invest heavily into its analytical capabilities — both in methods and equipment which can be used to test a coating material’s effectiveness and validate it for use as per ISO 134845 GMP regulations.

The various coating methods and materials of Polysciences has helped it in not only enhancing their client’s medical devices but also attracted many prospects due to its business approach. In one such instance, a client enlisted Polysciences’ help to address an issue surrounding their current supplier for a key sensor coating material. Polysciences collaborated with its customer to transfer, develop, scaleup, and validate it according to GMP regulations. Satisfied with the result, the client soon switched their supplier to Polysciences. The enterprise then started synthesizing and supplying them with the sensor coating polymer directly. This approach not only solved their supply continuity issues, but has also led to a collaborative effort between the two, to develop a more advanced version of the polymer.

Moving forward, Polysciences aspires to spread its reach beyond its current US, European and Taiwanese operations. The company seeks to open a sales office in India and develop additional manufacturing operations in Europe in the next 3-5 years. The enterprise also plans on building another infrastructure of labs and offices covering an area of 25,000 sq. ft. and shall start its construction by early 2021.