That’s right: sustainability. There’s another buzz word that’s becoming increasingly associated with plastics: recycling. Those are definitely two concepts the average consumer — or plastic injection molded medical device manufacturer — wouldn’t normally associate with plastics. Not all manufacturers are thinking about saving the planet; some are undoubtedly jumping on the bandwagon to curry favor…
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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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There’s big profit in small plastic medical parts, which is prompting leading medical molders to make big changes of their own. How small are these parts? Try tenths-of-a-millimeter small. This is a quantum leap forward — or downward, if you will — for these plastic injection molders. And the medical devices that they are manufacturing…
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A new dimension is coming to medical device manufacturing — a third dimension, if you will. It’s the marriage of 3D printing and plastic injection-molded medical devices, and it’s revolutionizing the entire med-tech industry. The reason is simple: production time. Now engineers can design a medical part in an application like SolidWorks one day, 3D print…
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AdvanTech manufactures a wide range of medical devices but no two are quite alike. Probably the only common denominator is their need to pass through a gauntlet of FDA approvals and clinical trials, any one of which can either delay or even kill a new product. This cumbersome approval process necessitates a sequence of…
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Almost everybody has dreamed of inventing something sexy like a fusion-powered engine — or even something funky like the next hula hoop. But it’s safe to say not many have dreamed of inventing something so, well, personal, as a disposable suppository applicator. Yet that’s exactly what Jennifer Davagian Ensign did a few years ago. In her…
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