Avient Introduces New Non-PFAS Low-Retention Additive for Pipette Tips, Highlights Polymer Solutions for Healthcare Products at Medica 2025

November 14, 2025

Avient launches a new Mevopur™ non-PFAS low-retention additive technology for pipette tips and highlights a wide range of polymer solutions to increase the appeal and performance of medical plastics at Medica 2025 

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DÜSSELDORF, Germany – November 14, 2025 – Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, will highlight its range of polymer colorants and additives to enhance the appeal, performance, and sustainability of healthcare products at Medica 2025. This includes the introduction of its latest Mevopur™ Healthcare Functional Additive: a non-PFAS, low-retention compound for pipette tips. 

Avient’s Mevopur portfolio includes performance and processing-enhancing additives that can reduce friction, improve clarity, enable laser marking and welding, and offer protection against ultraviolet (UV) light, oxidation, and gamma and/or e-beam sterilization. The new, low-retention materials solution, formulated without intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), slip agents, plasticizers, or biocides, can be used to enable excellent fluid release from polypropylene pipette tips in scientific and medical laboratory settings. 

Available as a ready-to-use compound, this low-retention additive solution eliminates the need for secondary low-retention coatings and can be adapted to customer requirements. It can also withstand typical electron-beam and gamma radiation sterilization doses applied to pipettes (usually up to 15 kGy) with fast recovery of hydrophobicity post-radiation. Additionally, its raw materials are pre-tested to ISO, USP, and ICH Q3D protocols for manufacturers who wish to use medical-grade materials for their pipette tips.

“This non-PFAS low retention additive technology not only delivers effective hydrophobicity without fluorinated substances; it’s also developed and manufactured under a holistic change control program. This can help to reduce the risk of performance and quality issues that could occur from changes in raw materials and manufacturing process,” says Volker Dickfeld, Senior Marketing Manager Healthcare Global for Color & Additives at Avient.

Other healthcare polymer solutions, which will be highlighted at the show, include:

• Mevopur™ Healthcare Colorants and Formulations: color masterbatches and ready-to-use formulations pre-tested to ISO, USP, EP, and ICH Q3D standards to help manufacturers of drug delivery devices and in vitro diagnostic equipment increase the appeal and performance of their products and expedite their regulatory submission
• Colorant Chromatics™ Transcend™ Premier Healthcare Solutions: a range of biocompatible, transparent, and opaque color solutions formulated for polyarylethersulfone-based materials (including PPSU, PSU, PES) and excellent for applications requiring biocompatibility, multiple sterilization cycles, and rigorous disinfection
• Colorant Chromatics™ Transcend™ Biocompatible PEEK Solutions: tailored solutions for polyaryletherketones delivering exceptional mechanical and thermal performance along with aesthetic appeal to applications such as dental scalers, surgical robots, stock and shapes, and portable cardiac monitoring equipment
• Colorant Chromatics™ Evoluscend™ non-PFAS Mold Release Additive: a demolding solution for high-temperature polymers to help manufacturers reduce cycle times and boost productivity without the use of fluorinated substances and pre-tested to both FDA food contact requirements and ISO 10993
• Mevopur™ Healthcare Bio-based Polymer Solutions: color and additive concentrates formulated with bio-based polypropylene, polyethylene, polycarbonate, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, and styrenic polymers, which can enable significant carbon footprint reductions compared to their fossil-fuel-based counterparts

MEDICA, the world's largest annual trade fair for the medical industry, will take place November 17–20, 2025, in Düsseldorf, Germany. Visitors interested in learning more about Avient’s healthcare polymer colorants and additives can meet with the company’s experts in Hall 3, Booth A74 at Messe Düsseldorf. 

About Avient 

Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global presence, allows us to serve customers with agility. We harness the collective strength of more than 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other’s ideas. In doing so, we innovate solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable. Visit www.avient.com to learn more.  

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