Seems like there’s a healthy market for plastic surgical devices, especially those manufactured by plastic injection molding. Whether they be plastic surgical instruments, plastic consumables (specimen cups, surgical trays, etc.) or plastic body implants, the global plastic surgical devices market is expected to increase over 10% from 2021 to 2028, reaching more than $22 billion…
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While most people associate plastics with consumer items such as plastic food packaging or personal care products, they play a vital role in the medical field. Like “life or death” vital. But plastics (also known as polymers) used in the medical device industry must meet higher standards than plastics used in other applications. The properties…
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Trust. One little word with tremendous meaning. At AdvanTech Plastics, we feel trust is the most important part of plastic injection molding. Our customers trust us to solve their plastic injection molding challenges. True story: A neurology plastic medical device company needed to manufacture a multi-component nasal syringe that could deliver medicine to the uppermost…
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They say the best advertising is a happy, satisfied customer. At AdvanTech Plastics, we know that’s true: In 2007, one of our customers recommended us to a pharmaceutical company looking for an injection molder to make its 40 mm closure for a nutritional supplement drink. That simple referral would have a profound impact on our…
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For centuries, medical equipment was manufactured from one particular substance. Metal. The reason? Metal was often cheap, plentiful and could be molded into the various shapes required by healthcare providers of the day. Plus, you could wash and sterilized them. (When that became a thing in the 20th century.) But then a process called “plastic…
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They’re practically ubiquitous in “these uncertain times”. They’re in restaurants, shops, train stations and airports. They’re in offices, classrooms and, of course, bathrooms — public and private. They’re even in purses and coat pockets. Hand sanitizers, that is. Perhaps, along with nasal swabs, they’re iconic of the entire pandemic. While many have electronic actuators, the…
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Until the 1960’s, medical device manufacturers were often limited to two materials for their products: glass and metal. But, as with so many other manufacturers in that decade, medical device makers began turning to plastic polymers for four chief reasons: cost (compared to metal) strength (comparable to metal, and sometimes greater) shatter-proof properties (especially compared…
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Medical devices, perhaps more than any other products made from plastic injection molding, are inherently complex. There are the stringent low-tolerances, for one thing. But there’s also the design of many of the devices themselves. Often times, these designs call for two-shot injection molding, which can make items comprised of two different pieces, in one…
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Sustainability. You’ve heard the term batted around in every industrial sector. But, until recently, the general public didn’t hear the term associated with the plastics industry, which was viewed in a less than favorable light by environmentally-conscious folks. Well, maybe the press didn’t report it, but that hasn’t stopped plastic injection molding companies in Illinois…
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While everyone knows coronavirus test kits are vital to the “war effort” against COVID-19, not many people consider the many hands, hearts and minds that go into their invention and fabrication. And many don’t appreciate the sheer speed of the entire production process, from initial research to finished, packaged product sitting on the doorstep of…
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