TexMed Announces State-Of-The-Art Clean Room Manufacturing Facility

Contact:  Dan Rodriguez, TexLoc, Ltd. –817-625-5081 * U.S.A.  800-423-6551

Fort Worth, TX (October 26, 2004) - In response to the medical market's increasing demands for cleaner USP Class VI extruded tubing products TexMed, manufacturer of medical fluoroplastic tubing products, announces the completion of a new Class 100,000 clean room at their Fort Worth, ISO 9001:2000 plant.

The facility features a newly acquired state of the art closed loop extrusion system capable of holding precision tolerances of +/- .0005" and compliments TexMed's existing Class 10,000 clean room capabilities. The extrusion system is equipped with electronic measurement devices to ensure lot-to-lot consistency and is also capable of maintaining historical production data and set-up information.

Specifications for the new medical clean room were developed in collaboration with customers to meet the medical markets requirements and concerns with eliminating bio-burden and ensuring repeatability of subsequent jobs. In addition, the new, dedicated medical facility enhances R&D capability and assist in rapid sample development.

TexMed specializes in the manufacturing of custom precision tubing and custom profiles, heat shrink tubing in fluoroplastics, and high performance thermoplastics and elastomers. Additional services include Application and Material Engineering assistance, R&D Engineers and a State of the Art in-house test lab.