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Keeping medical moulding machinery company and contaminant free
Creating a fixed GMP-compliant cleanroom environment can be a large investment. They can be expensive to build, cumbersome to plan for and costly to operate and maintain. It’s easy to go into panic mode and overcomplicate matters
Containment
activeCell fills compact, cleanroom injection moulding gap
Once the preserve of pharmaceutical and medical device injection moulding, cleanroom production facilities are
now cropping up in the automotive, micro-electronics and bio-technology sectors too. Yet, cumbersome planning
and smaller factory footprints means many moulders seeking to eliminate contamination from plastic parts are
shifting their thinking from large, fixed cleanrooms and seeking more compact, mobile systems, observes Nigel
Flowers, Managing Director at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag UK
Manufacturing
Big opportunities in micro-moulding
Catheter components, implants, and blade holders are typical items made with micro-injection moulding. Nigel Flowers, managing director at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag (UK), explains the manufacturing challenges, contamination risks, and argues the case for all-electric machines
Medical Devices
Lens moulders set sights on growth
Advances in medical science have enabled contact lenses to be widely accessible and demand is growing. Today, there are estimated to be 125 million people who wear contact lenses globally. Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, a supplier of the machinery that produces the moulds for contact lenses, looks at the production process and trends
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