Engineering teams at Nottingham-based Advanex Europe have been working in collaboration with some of the world’s leading medical device manufacturers to develop techniques for reducing ‘particulate’ – the minute, separate particles of organic and non-organic matter that can contaminate components.
With management systems approved to ISO 9001 and 140001, Advanex Europe produces metal and plastic components for various medical devices. These currently include coil springs, anti-tangling coil springs, metal pressings and wire shapes, which are used in a variety of medical devices such as metered dose inhalers, auto injection systems and nasal sprays.
The company is actively growing its customer base in the medical device market and is committed to being at the forefront of reducing particulate. Such particles can be generated during the coiling and forming process by friction between the raw material and the tooling, and from foreign bodies, such as lubricants, that are picked up by contact during manufacturing. Components can also be contaminated by airborne particulate present in the atmosphere surrounding the process and contact with operators, equipment, packaging materials etc., during manufacturing.
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