Let’s cut to the chase: medical-quality polymers are increasingly becoming the “go-to” material for a broad range of surgical devices. In some cases, the innate mechanical attributes of medical-grade polymers completely supplant metal from the surgical device design. In other applications, plastic and metal components are used together to create a device with the best…
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High tolerance may be desirable when someone cuts you off in traffic (and you don’t want to fly into road rage) but it’s something that, well, plastic injection molders just can’t tolerate. Especially plastic molders of medical devices, such as hip replacement sockets or heart valves. The answer for many plastic injection molding companies is…
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As a manufacturing technique, plastic injection molding is showing healthy growth in the medical equipment and components sector. Despite conventional wisdom about the superiority of metal or other materials in medical applications, plastic resin offers a superior solution for many designs because of its malleability and price. What’s more, it has met and surpassed the…
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The medical device manufacturing industry has gone through tremendous upheaval the last few years, prompted by many factors including the Great Recession, the Affordable Care Act, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, Clinical Lab Fee Schedule reforms and even changing consumer sentiment. These factors forced many device manufacturers, including much of the In Vitro Diagnostics…
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It’s hard to drill down to the facts these days — on any topic. The surfeit of information precipitated by digital media (read: the internet) has confused and distracted almost everyone from the truth about everything. Manufacturing is no exception. Just mentioning the words off-shoring, re-shoring and automation is to beg an instant argument. But…
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The trend seemed as inexorable as it was depressing: for the past 20 years, China had dominated the manufacture of injection-molded plastic products in the medical technical field, mainly because of lower labor costs. But there are signs that the trend is not as inexorable as we once thought. In fact, many companies are returning their…
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Producing plastic parts for the medical industry is an exacting task. But it’s a business which gives our company tremendous satisfaction because we know the parts we supply are helping to improve or save lives. While healthcare is constantly changing, one fact remains constant: plastic-injection molded medical parts will be an increasingly important aspect of…
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