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Medical combination products facilitate the treatment of for patients. However, material selection and production presents a challenge.

Medical combination products release drugs that have an anti-inflammatory effect, for example. They can make regular intake by the patient unnecessary.

16:9

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Medizintechnik

Medizinprodukte

Health from Plastics

Oechsler is investing some EUR 8 million in its Healthcare division. Exclusive interview with Vice President Healthcare Felix Hess.

Exclusive interview with Healthcare boss Felix Hess about 8 million investment | Plastics products for medical technology

Spritzgießen

Reinraumtechnik

Schröder, Susanne

Medizintechnik (KU)

“No Half Measures When It Comes  to Medicine”

A low-build-height mini-valve-gate system allows the advantages of micro injection molding to be combined with those of valve gate technology.

Thanks to its low overall height, the new valve-gate system can also be accommodated in the confined space of a micro injection molding machine.

Mikrospritzgießen

Heißkanalsysteme

The Great Art of Small Parts

In comparison to its existing custom manufacturing business area, Wirthwein Medical plans to achieve above-average growth with its own products.

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Reinraumsysteme / -technik

Growth on the Second Pillar

Zahoransky supplies systems and injection molds for manufacturing breakage-proof primary packaging for pharmaceuticals. Three typical applications.

The double quick-change system for pipette tips permits rapid restart of production after brief maintenance interruptions.

Automatisierungszellen

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Automatisierungstechnik

Pharmaceutical Primary Packaging  with No Risk of Breakage

Researchers on the CAMed project being conducted by the Medical University of Graz are working on producing custom implants in the hospital using 3D printers.

The 3D-printed rib made of PCU possesses the necessary stiffness and fit for insertion directly into the chest cavity.

Qualitätsmanagement

Additive Fertigung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Arburg Kunststoff Freiformen

Bone Implants Straight from  the Hospital’s Printer

Presses in the cleanroom: 5 reasons for automation. Wickert manufactures customer-specific equipment for pharmaceutical and medical-technical products.

Everything clean:  According to information from the company, Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH is one of the leading suppliers of cleanroom and pharmaceutical presses.

Pressen, hydraulisch

Five Reasons for Automation

Medical technology: PKT will present a cross-section of its micro parts production at MedtecLIVE.

Tiny plastic parts are the specialty of PKT Präzisions-Kunststoff-Teile GmbH. 

Part Weight: 0.0006 Grams

Servomold’s servomotor-controlled unscrewing units ensure high productivity in the production of pharmaceutical caps.

Röchling Medical uses servo motor controlled unscrewing units in 8- and 16-cavity injection molds for pharmaceutical closure caps. 

Servomotoren

Patented System Free from Radial Forces

Sanner and automation specialist MA micro automation create attractive conditions even for smaller batch sizes.

Final inspection of the finished test cartridges. Thanks to the cooperation of Sanner and MA micro automation, various design and labeling requirements can be realized.

Sanner and MA micro automation Bring Rapid Test Production Back to Europe

Automatisierungskomponenten

Montagelinien

Too Fast for the Human Eye

Three solutions for increasing the productivity in the automotive, medical and packaging industries are presented by Tederic at K 2022 with the Neo injection molding machine series. T

The Neo·Ec combines electrical and hydraulic drives.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Polylactid

Spritzprägen

Spritzgießmaschinen

Applications in Three Key Sectors

Netstal presents new solutions for high-performance injection molding in Düsseldorf.

aXos control unit with “Smart Operation:” the guided machine operation enables users to achieve additional productivity increases.

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Fast, Precise and Networked

Rodinger Kunststoff-Technik supports their customers all the way from product development and prototype molds to a product ready for serial production.

Tiny structures in the cavity of a Lab-on-a-Chip cartridge: complex and filigree geometries such as these can be efficiently manufactured by injection molding thanks to high-precision mold technology and special plastics.

Manufacturing Materials to Laboratory Standards

Plastics: the Obvious Choice

 At KraussMaffei’s booth, automotive door modules are produced from former caps of insulin pens. The system supplier is presenting not only the machine hardware necessary for this but also new digital solutions.

Digital solutions are an essential component of the material loop from the insulin pen cap to the car door module.

Digitale Transformation

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Energieeffizienz

Kreislaufwirtschaft

From the Insulin Pen Cap to the Automotive Door Module

Molds for orthoses are usually machined. That is not optimal – neither for the patient nor for the manufacturer. Within the scope of a study, Lehmann & Voss therefore investigated whether 3D printing is an alternative – both ecologically and economically.

3D-printed laminating standard for the production of CFRP orthoses.

Molds for Orthoses

Polyethylenterephthalat

Technische Kunststoffe

3D-Printed, Not Machined

How do you bring 65 injection molding machines and various assembly lines – most of the manufacturing cells in the cleanroom – as well as, soon, a large number of ancillary equipment under one digital roof? A field report.

The Arburg host computer system ALS is the link between the shop floor and ERP system and connects order management with process and quality monitoring.

The Arburg Host Computer System as a Basis of Higher Productivity and Product Quality

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Condition Monitoring / Prozessüberwachung

Kennzahlen, Q-Leitstand, Q-Monitor

Rückverfolgbarkeit, Traceability

Case Files for Patient Safety

Bausano’s new high-speed line is capable, even in the most compact configuration, of producing up to 120 m of tube per minute.

The high-speed extrusion line for PVC medical tubes meets the most stringent requirements, such as ISO 14644–1 Class 8 Cleanroom. <br/>© Bausano

Extrusionsanlagen

High-Speed Line for PVC Tubes

Patient movements can severely affect the quality of MRI and CT images. A new approach detects the movements and subsequently incorporates them into the image evaluation by means of correction algorithms. This significantly improves the image quality. For the detection of the patient’s movements, the use of polymer optical fibers is suitable.

Polymer Optical Fibers Increase the Reliability of MRI Images

Fasern

LED / OLED-Systeme und Faseroptik

Lichttechnik

Polyurethan

Polymethylmethacrylat

Lichtwellenleiter (LWL)

Motion Sensing Light Guides

Additive manufacturing has the potential to manufacture tablets individualized for the particular patient, and thereby further digitalize the pharmaceutical industry. In medication development, the properties of a tablet, such as its shape, dosage or release of the active substance, can be individually tailored – by making just a few changes to the digital 3D print file. Merck scientists have used a Freeformer for their lab tests.

Merck researcher Dr. Thomas Kipping (right) and Nabil Lamrabet value the advantages that the Freeformer offers as an open system.

The Freeformer Allows a Tailor-Made Combination of Several Active Ingredients

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, Kunststoff

Patient-Specific Tablets

Pharmaceutical crimp caps generally consist of a thin aluminum sheet and a plastic component, and are used to seal medical vials, for example for vaccines. Through a combined deep-drawing and backmolding process with previous inline laser treatment of the thin aluminum sheet, the process can be significantly shortened. The media-proof joining together of the two materials is carried out through a mechanically interlocking connection.

A crimp cap for injection vials is manufactured in a two-step process.

Combined Deep-Drawing and Backmolding Process with Mechanically Interlocking Joint

Hybridtechnik

Aluminiumlegierungen

Laserbearbeitungen

Tiefziehen

Spritzgieß-Sonderverfahren

Simulation Stanzen / Umformen

Laserstrukturieren

Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Process Chain for the Production of Hybrid Medical Products

Nowhere are the demands imposed on materials higher than in the area of medical technology. That is understandable because, after all, what is ultimately at stake here is the patient’s health. But any materials manufacturers seeking to use hot runner technology to process polymers in compliance with strict directives and differentiated legal regulations also need the expertise possessed by the hot runner manufacturer’s application engineers.

Günther has recently installed two new injection-molding machines for customer trials in its technical center.

Testing the Processing Limits of Modified POM Copolymer

Polyoxymethylen

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Looking over the Application  Engineer’s Shoulder

Pipette tips are small and relatively simple components that are now in high demand. One might think  producing large quantities of these products is a simple task. It is not. The requested high quality can only be reached by using complex automation. To meet these challenging requirements, MA micro automation has developed a modular solution: Centauri IVD.

The Centauri IVD production system can be adapted to meet specific pipette tip manufacturing requirements.

Automated High Volume Consumables Production

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Prozessautomation

From Tool to Blister

The EWR half-shell version made of stainless steel is new in the range of couplings specialist Enemac from Kleinwallstadt, Germany.

EWR half-shell metal bellows coupling made of stainless steel