Plastics Use in the Medical Industry
Plastics play a huge part in the medical industry, including in catheters, IV bags, blood bags, ventilators, syringes and hospital beds.
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How to Know the True Value of Conformally Cooled Injection Molds
What’s the return on investing in a new mold with conformal cooling to boost productivity? Will it pay for itself? How soon? Here’s a case study on how to answer those questions.
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What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production
Automation is a must have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floorspace consumption and payback period.
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Protolabs Addresses How to Survive a Pandemic with Digital Manufacturing
Protolabs survey results examine product development and the supply chain.
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Processing Medical Plastics? Here's How to Minimize Risk
FDA now expects OEMs of healthcare products to also take responsibility for Tier 2 and 3 suppliers—making sure every supply-chain link is meeting Good Manufacturing Practices.
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Extrusion: 'Melt-Blown' Fiber: What You Need to Know to Enter the Face Mask Market
Coronavirus pandemic has made extrusion processors curious about entering the face-mask market. But melt-blown fiber is very different from most other extrusion processes and requires specialized equipment.
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How to Improve Production of Catheters and Stents
Advances in downstream extrusion equipment have boosted production control.
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Latest Medical News And Updates
Krones Acquires Netstal
Krones adds PET preform injection molding to its bottle blowing and filling capabilities, as well as cap molding and expansion into medical, food and other markets.
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Arterex Acquires Micromold
The medical device contract manufacturing company with eight facilities globally has purchased the Riverside, California-based micromolder.
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Northwell Health Installing Technology to Treat Medical Waste On-Site to Facilitate Recycling
Envetec’s Generations technology will shred and disinfect waste materials that can then be recycled.
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Baxter to Scale Up PVC Intravenous Bag Recycling Program
Successful pilot program with Northwestern Medicine will expand to additional units and health systems.
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Fakuma 2023: High-Speed Pipette Tip Molding
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, Hekuma and Schöttli partnered on production cell molding pipette tips from a 32-cavity mold in a cycle of 4.5 seconds.
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Medical-Grade Antimicrobial Masterbatch
Developed to protect plastic components in health care facilities against the proliferation of microorganisms.
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Catheter Specialist Finds Sweet Spot Serving Small, Medium-Sized Concerns
Medical-component specialist LightningCath has carved a niche meeting the needs of small to medium-sized entrepreneurs with complex catheter designs … quickly.
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Medical Molder, Moldmaker Embraces Continuous Improvement
True to the adjective in its name, Dynamic Group has been characterized by constant change, activity and progress over its nearly five decades as a medical molder and moldmaker.
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Medical Manufacturer Innovates with Additive Manufacturing and Extrusion Technology Hubs
Spectrum Plastics Group offers customers two technology hubs — one for extrusion, the other for additive manufacturing — to help bring ground-breaking products to market faster.
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Use Cavity Pressure Measurement to Simplify GMP-Compliant Medical Molding
Cavity-pressure monitoring describes precisely what’s taking place inside the mold, providing a transparent view of the conditions under which a part is created and ensuring conformance with GMP and ISO 13485 in medical injection molding.
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Plastic Compounding Market to Outpace Metal & Alloy Market Growth
Study shows the plastic compounding process is being used to boost electrical properties and UV resistance while custom compounding is increasingly being used to achieve high-performance in plastic-based goods.
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As Currier Grows in Medical Consumables, Blow Molding Is Its ‘Foot in the Door’
Currier Plastics has added substantial capacity recently in both injection and blow molding for medical/pharmaceutical products, including several machines to occupy a new, large clean room.
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