MediPurpose Presents Distinguished Partner Award to Pharmaplast

Nov. 30, 2011 - PRLog -- DÜSSELDORF, Germany – MediPurpose(r), a master distributor and manufacturer of medical products, last week presented its Distinguished Partner award to Pharmaplast at MEDICA 2011 in Dusseldorf Germany.

Pharmaplast is a major OEM medical product supplier for products within MediPurpose's new MediPlus(tm) Advanced Wound Care line. Earlier this month, MediPlus became available for immediate delivery to medical product distribution customers.

MediPurpose President and CSO Randy Prather and Vice President-Advanced Wound Care Michael Riddle personally presented the award to Dr. Mamdouh H. Atteia, Pharmaplast's Technical Director and Business Development Manager, while attending the annual trade show.

"Our ability to offer high quality wound care products from a strong partner is key to our success," said Riddle. "We were very pleased to make this award to Pharmaplast in recognition of their commitment to excellence."

"The USA represents a large opportunity for us and we are very pleased to work with MediPurpose as a master distributor for MediPlus Advanced Wound Care products," said Dr. Atteia. "We look forward to continuing to build on our partnership."

About MediPlus Wound Care Products
MediPlus is MediPurpose's latest medical product offering, which is in addition to its SurgiLance(r) safety lancet and babyLance(r) heel stick products.

The new advanced wound care line -- and the subsequent agreement with Pharmaplast -- spotlights MediPurpose's attention on new business development to expand medical product lines that complement their award-winning medical product distribution services and logistics capabilities.

The MediPlus advanced wound care product line currently features:

-- Foams
 -- MediPlus Foam
 -- MediPlus Comfort Foam
 -- MediPlus HC Foam
 -- MediPlus Super Foam

-- Hydrocolloids
 -- MediPlus HC (Standard and Extra-Thin)
 -- MediPlus HC Comfort

-- Hydrogels
 -- MediPlus Barrier Gel
 -- MediPlus Barrier Gel Comfort

-- Thin Films
 -- MediPlus PU Film
 -- MediPlus PU Frame

-- Post-Surgical Dressings
 -- MediPlus PU Pad
 -- MediPlus Surgical

-- Non-Adherent Pads
 -- MediPlus PE Pad

Additionally, MediPurpose last month announced that it received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its silver foam wound dressings, which are expected to be available later this year.

More information about MediPlus -- including no-cost product sample requests -- is available at http://www.medipurpose.com/mediplus.

About Pharmaplast
Started in 1985 by three pharmacists, Pharmaplast engages in the manufacture of advanced wound care and immobilization products.

Today, Pharmaplast is a shareholding company with five factories in Egypt that employ 700 employees. All factories are ISO 9001 certified, all products bear the CE mark and most of the products are FDA registered.

Pharmaplast believes that consistent innovation and quality assurance is the key to its survival, and thus invests to generate new products that help medical professionals to provide quality patient care with maximum cost-efficiency.

For more information about Pharmaplast, please visit http://www.pharmaplast-online.com .

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About MediPurpose
Founded in 1999, MediPurpose is a leading medical device company headquartered in Singapore, with offices in the United States and Europe.

Known for its popular babyLance(r) heel incision device, SurgiLance(r) safety lancet and MediPlus(tm) advanced wound care products, MediPurpose has leveraged its success in the medical device industry to become a master medical product distributor that provides unique solutions for both medical product manufacturers and medical product distributors.

MediPurpose's Medical Device Innovation division offers angel funding and developmental expertise for new medical device inventors and innovative medical product companies that seek entrance into new medical device markets.

For more information about MediPurpose's medical products and solutions for inventors, innovators, manufacturers and distributors, please visit http://www.medipurpose.com .