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Machine vision MoldWatcher prevents tooling damage and detects short shots in medical molding operation.

MoldWatcher machine vision prevents tooling damage.

16:9

Spritzgießen

Bildverarbeitung

Bildverarbeitung, Machine Vision

Spritzgieß-Zubehör und Einzelteile

Medizintechnik

Proactive Mold Protection

Self-lubricating high-performance plastic gears enable clean, maintenance-free drives – ideal for medical applications.

Solid lubricants are already integrated into gears made from tribologically optimized plastics.

Additive Fertigung

Ensuring Smooth Operation

The packaging world of the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries has long been balancing a tension between sustainable claims and regulatory reality.

Extrusion of PE films in the ISO7 cleanroom at Peku Folien. Recyclates are not permitted here, but certified bioplastics are.

For some time now, the packaging world of the medical device and pharmaceutical industries has been juggling sustainable aspirations and regulatory realities. Demand, reality and outlook

Verpackungsmittel aus Kunststoffen

Folien

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Medizinprodukte

Claim, Reality, and Outlook

Vague political course-setting and contradictory customer requirements: How Wirthwein is shaping the road to sustainability despite the many hurdles.

The 6.8 kg plastic  cable ducts replace concrete elements weighing 160 kg.

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Wirtschaft

Energieeffizienz

Kreislaufwirtschaft

KFZ-Zulieferer

The Trouble with Sustainability

Medical-grade from Teknor Apex TPEs offer enhanced clarity, reduced spallation, and extended pump life.

Medalist MD-90000 Series Thermoplastic Elastomers were uniquely designed to address spallation issues with existing products in pump segment tubing applications.

Peristaltic pump with plastic tubes and rollers moving.

Thermoplastische Elastomere

Thermoplaste

TPE for Biopharmaceutical Tubing Applications

The start-up Biovox produces recyclable bioplastics from renewable raw materials in medical grade quality for products in the healthcare sector.

The Biovox team with the founders Carmen Rommel (3rd from right.), COO, Dr.-Ing. Vinzenz Nienhaus (1st from right), CTO, and Dr.-Ing. Julian Lotz (3rd from left), CEO.

The start-up Biovox produces recyclable bioplastics from renewable raw materials in medical grade quality for products in the healthcare sector. 

Kunststoffe, biobasiert

Biokunststoffe

Nachhaltigkeit

Start up

Kunststoffe, bioabbaubar

Bioplastics in Medical  Grade Quality

3D printing facilitates and accelerates the manufacture of new products. Ensinger is an expert in high-performance plastics in this area.

High-performance plastics can be used in 3D printing to fulfil the highest requirements from batch size 1, for example for biocompatible trial bone plates and trial joint implants.

Filamente für additive Verfahren

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Fused Deposition Modeling Kunststoff, Glas, Karbon, Metall

3D Printing with  High-Performance Thermoplastics

Like looking through a keyhole, the surgeon peers through the pupil of a patient: With the help of an optical lens, his field of vision is expanded to 170°. This smart plastic system comes from Oculus Surgical in Florida, a company that opened its doors to us for a day. Preston Ashby, Head of Molding, explains what is important in the development and manufacturing of these specialized devices.

Diagnostic contact lenses: These lenses sit on the patient’s eye and allow a detailed view of the central retina.

Interview with Preston Ashby from Oculus Surgical in Florida

Schröder, Susanne

Länderspecial USA

Clear View of the Retina

Supersized cleanroom production: Medbio produces around 750 million parts per year at a total of four locations in the USA. In this interview, the technology leader explains how he holds his own against the competition and why the company relies on machines from Arburg.

There is a lot inside: This multi-part reagent container consists of several components and is welded into one component during assembly. 

Reinraumtechnik

Reinraumsysteme / -technik

“We Are Not Afraid of  Difficult Materials”

Due to the impending ban on PFAS, alternatives are being desperately sought. One such option could be an organosilicon coating.

The polymer coating produced using the plasma process (left) has a very good water-repellent effect. The image on the right shows the result without the layer.

Fluorkunststoffe

Beschichtungen

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Halbleiterfertigung

Polymer Coating as an  Alternative to PFAS

Optical Devices, a Fisheye-Lens – and Tortoises

Visiting Oculus Surgical

Supersized cleanroom production: Medbio produces around 750 million parts per year at a total of four locations in the USA.

Insights into Cleanroom Production at Medbio

A case study shows that the biodegradability of plastics in healthcare offers hardly any advantages. The use of bio-based raw materials also has its hurdles.

The rack seen  in nature with which it should have been in harmony after the completion of this study.

Polylactid

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Do Bioplastics Have a Future  in Healthcare?

Producing centrifuge tubes for medical technology by the single-step IML process slashes reject rates, compared with the classic two-step counterpart.

Thanks to functional IML labels, the centrifuge tubes can have a filling scale and temperature-sensitive elements, for example. The latter use a color change to indicate when the cold chain has been breached.

Bedrucken

Automatisierungszellen

Labeling

Folientechnik (IMD, IML, FIM, u.a.)

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Optische Mess- und Prüftechnik

Automatisierungstechnik

Putting an End to Rejects

Plastic wafers and a new technology simplify the functionalization, individualization and integration of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

From plastic wafer to functionalized chip: The substrate made of Tecacomp PEEK LDS is equipped with conductor paths and vias and enables numerous sensor functions within a very small space.

Mikroelektronik

Laserstrukturieren

3D-MID-Baugruppen

Mikrosystemtechnik

Microsystems Rethought

When combining PC with liquid silicone rubber, the heat resistance of the PC is an important factor. Covestro has introduced a special PC for this purpose.

The heat-resistant polycarbonate also boosts productivity in silicone overmolding applications.

Technische Kunststoffe

Polycarbonat

Higher Heat Resistance,  Higher Productivity

What meaningful options are there for returning plastics to the recovered substance cycle, and what potential exists in the life cycle of a medical device?

Medizintechnik (KU)

Recycling

“Only What Is Collected Can  Also Be Recycled”

The additives previously used for antibacterial surfaces have various problems. Natural substances are a suitable alternative.

Additive

Using Natural Substances to Combat Microbes on Surfaces

Instead of buffering production delays with intermediate storage, the Swiss 1K and 2K application system manufacturer medmix has now interlinked injection molding production and assembly with ABB robots.

The production factory can produce different kinds of mixers. Thanks to the use of robots, the system can also adapt to the desired sizes in the production process simply by changing the kind of application technology used.

Automatisierungskomponenten

Industrieroboter

Montageeinrichtungen

Directly Assembled instead of Temporarily Stored

Eco-inject have selected Ineos Styrolution’s sustainable NAS ECO material for a new generation of single use autoinjectors.

Eco-inject has selected Ineos Styrolution’s styrene acrylic copolymer NAS ECO 21 BC70 for the housings of the new line of autoinjectors.

Styrol-Copolymerisate

Styrene Acrylic Copolymer for Autoinjectors

Ineos Styrolution introduced a new acrylonitrile styrene acrylate ASA material dedicated to applications in the healthcare industry.

The ASA material was designed specifically for medical devices. <br/>