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WINNER
Primasil Silicones
EUROPE’S LEADING INDEPENDENT MANUFACTURER OF
SILICONE RUBBER PRODUCTS, PRIMASIL INNOVATION
HELPS IMPROVE PAXMAN™ COOLING CAP.

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(Pictured L-R) Caroline Herdman, Primasil Silicones Ltd
and John Ferdinand, Marks & Clerk LLP

ollaboration between Primasil Silicones and its
academic partner University of Huddersfield has
enabled Paxman™ to bring relief to cancer patients
undergoing chemotherapy by further reducing the risk
of hair-loss during treatment.

AN INNOVATIVE AND TRUSTED DEVELOPER AND MANUFACTURER OF VASCULAR
ACCESS DEVICES, KIMAL HAVE HAD SUCCESS IN VARIOUS ENTERPRISES FOR 50 YEARS

imal has taken its
award-winning multi-tube
technology platform to the next
level with its groundbreaking 7
lumen catheter.

Altius® SEVEN Lumen

offers 7 perfectly round lumens
in an 8.5 french gauge size along
with the standard revolutionary
features of Altius®, which
improve performance, increase
safety and provide greater
protection. No other catheter on
the market offers this smaller
size of catheter with 7 lumens.

(Pictured L-R) Ruth Clarke, Steve Minett and Pilar Mena,
Kimal plc

A uniquely closed and colour coded system means
that the innovative 7 lumen catheter also aids in
the fight to combat misconnections of IV lines and
the ability to keep incompatible drugs apart in
identifiable separate lumens.

The latest innovations in development are being designed to improve the effectiveness and availability of the
cooling cap which Paxman first developed in the late 1990s with help from Primasil. Their main challenge this
time was to create a new silicone rubber formulation that would give the reusable cap greater flexibility to adapt
to varying head shapes and sizes around the world. In addition, the partners looked at ways of increasing
automation in the cap’s production to satisfy increasing demand for the product.

Already the 7 lumen catheter
has been adopted across sites in
Europe, including QEHB (UK).

Chemotherapy affects rapidly dividing cells, which include most of our hair follicles. Its unintended consequence
can be atrophy of the hair root bulb. The Paxman cooling cap essentially consists of a compact refrigeration
system co