GE Plastics providing data on raw materials to manufacturers. (General Electric Co. GE Plastics)

Industrial thermoplastic manufacturer GE Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass., is targeting some of the industry's major medical supply manufacturers to use the company's raw materials to manufacture products. GE Plastics is now developing products with Becton-Dickinson Inc., Franklin Lakes, N.J., and DeVilbiss Health Care Inc., Somerset, Pa.

GE Plastics is promoting the company's ability to provide technical data about the company's raw materials to medical supply manufacturers. Time spent on raw material evaluation by medical supply manufacturers could be better spent on product development, according to GE Plastics. With the industry becoming increasingly concerned with the …