Novo Nordisk A/s

Ib Johannesen

Thomas Buch-Rasmussen

Patric Jannasch

Erling Bonne J&oslash;rgensen

Sokol Ndoni

Nils Berg Madsen

The present invention relates to a coating system, in particular to a coating system for articles where plastic materials slide against flexible rubber materials. The coating system is a silicone oil based coating having a viscosity of at least 200,000 centistokes, i.e. a high viscosity coating. The coating comprises in a preferred embodiment a silicone oil based block or graft copolymer, or segmented copolymer. Further the invention relates to a process of producing a component of an article coated as described above, comprising adding the coating material to the component material prior to molding and subsequently molding the component from the mixture, or molding the component from the component material and subsequently applying the coating material to the at least one surface of the component, as well as an article coated with a silicone oil based coating as defined above. Such an article is preferably a medical article, such as a container or an injection cylinder and a stopper. The coatings according to the present invention are especially suited to use for permanently coating internal surfaces of containers equipped with stoppers for storage and administration of liquid protein preparations. The coatings providing low friction between the two components, such as a container wall and a rubber stopper, result in high-precision dosing. The described coatings are particularly useful for coating containers for storage and administration of liquid protein solutions, such as insulin formulations.

Coating system providing low friction

The present invention relates to a medical article for containing a pharmaceutical protein preparation comprising at least a first component and a second component, having at least one surface coated with a coating to reduce the friction between the two components and to reduce the protein adsorption to the coating. The coating is a hydrophilic coating whereby the hydrophilicity of the surface of the coating as measured by the water contact angle is below 90&deg;, and the long term static friction forces between the first and the second component are below 14 N. The coatings according to the present invention are especially suited for permanently coating in ternal surfaces of containers equipped with stoppers for storage and administration of liquid protein preparations, such as insulin preparations. The coating is preferably a silicon-containing coating, such as a poly(dialkyl siloxane) oil or copolymer. The invention further relates to a process of producing a component of a medical article coated as described above, comprising adding the coating material to the component material prior to molding and subsequently molding the component from the mixture, or molding the component from the component material and subsequently applying the coating material to the at least one surface of the component, and hydrophilizing the coating material prior to the molding or after the molding. Also the invention relates to a coating as defined above for articles having at least a first component and a second component.

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