It’s a familiar, if unfortunate, scene that is burned on the retinas of millions around the world: hazmat-suited medical personnel inserting nasal swabs into the noses of drivers or pedestrians, collecting specimens to be tested for COVID-19. These nasopharyngeal swabs/syringes, which have been used in hospitals for more than 50 years consist of two pieces:…
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Sometimes two-steps are better than one. Take medical device plastic injection molding, for example: sometimes you need both strength and ergonomics, as you do with surgical instruments which might a need a super-hard plastic “business end,” and a more “soft touch” plastic handle for the surgeon’s sensitive hands. The answer for manufacturing such medical instruments…
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Car manufacturers making ICU ventilators. E-commerce giants delivering testing kits. And plastic injection molding companies in Illinois and elsewhere making a variety of items to aid in the battle against COVID-19. Wherever you look, American industry is rolling up its sleeves to do its part in fighting this pandemic. AdvanTech Plastics is part of that…
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PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING INVENTED IN 19TH CENTURY? YEP! 1868, to be precise. American inventor John W. Hyatt patented a process that produced a product he called “celluloid” (not what later would eventually become movie film) which he used as a replacement for ivory in billiard balls and piano keys, among other things. Although an Englishman…
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Time was when the word “plastics” conjured up images of islands of floating polyurethane plastic bottles in an otherwise beautiful blue placid sea. Worse yet, were actual photographs of bird and sea life chocking to death from plastic ring carriers. That was then. Today, many industry resin producers, as well as plastic injection molders, are…
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Practically from its inception as a manufacturing process in the late 19th century, plastic injection molding has been utilized to produce an ever-widening array of products, in a myriad of industries. For the purposes of this blog post, we’re just going to look at three industries which have benefited greatly from this most malleable of…
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The entire industrial base of this country is stepping up to meet the corona virus pandemic: car companies are making medical ventilators, clothing manufacturers are turning out surgical masks, and multinational beer companies are brewing hand sanitizer. Now the plastic injection molding medical parts industry is stepping up, although a lot of the prototyping is…
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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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Hungry for good news about the growth of the rigid plastic food packaging market? The global rigid plastic packaging market (which includes food packaging) was valued at $216 billion in 2018, and is projected to reach $340 billion by 2026. That translates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6% from 2019 to 2026….
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While some in our industry decry growing consumer and business demand for recycled and bio-degradable plastics, there is at least one group of folks who are happy about it: plastic injection molding machinery manufacturers. Could be because global market demand for plastics processing machinery is expected to reach $24.3 billion by 2025. Of course, the…
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