Foster, LLC’s advanced cutting-edge facility is expertly designed for the development and manufacturing of next-generation implantable materials, ensuring unmatched quality, consistency, and reliability in every formulation.
We offer both non-clean room space (R&D Bay) for early-stage R&D trials and a clean room environment, each tailored to specific stages of your product’s lifecycle, from initial concept validation to full-scale GMP manufacturing. This flexible infrastructure allows us to support your innovation from early research through to commercial readiness.
About Foster Medical Implant Capability
Clean room capability
- Class 7 (10,000) clean room
- 27mm twin screw extruder
- 18mm twin screw extruder for R&D
- Loss-in-weight feeders
- Pelletization (customizable)
- Air- and water-cooling
- Non-clean room processing area for R & D runs
Development Services
Implants are the most highly regulated products in the medical market. Effective product development that can be validated and scaled to production is essential. We offer a complete range of services throughout the product life cycle including.
- Formulation & Material Selection
- Feasibility – Small Batch Production
- Process Development
- Scale-Up
- Validation – Process & Test Methods
- Production – Implement Manufacturing Protocol
Medical Plastics Innovation Center & developmental services:
- R & D lots to production scale up
- Formulation development
- Feasibility – small batch production
- Process development
- GMP trials
- Validation
- Finished property testing
- Direct extrusion forms and shapes
- Rods
- Fiber
- Tubing
- Co-extrusion
- Film
- Pellets
Implantable Material Capability and Experience
- PEEK
- PAEK
- Polysulfones
- Polypropylene
- Thermoplastic polyurethane
- Silicones
- Nylons
- Others
- Polylactides (PLA)
- Polyglcolides (PGA)
- Poly(lactide-coglcolides) (PLGA)
- Polycaprolactone (PCL)
- Alloys of the above
- Osteoconductivity
- Pre-colored
- Radiopaque filled
- Antimicrobial
- Reinforcement
- MRI and ultrasound functionality
- Other as needed
- Sutures
- Dental devices
- Orthopedic fixation (metal replacement)
- Tissue fixation
- Bone screws, etc.
- Biodegradeable stents
- Bone and tissue engineering
- Spinal cages
- Cosmetic surgery: thread lift
- Wraps to hold tissue masses in place