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Medical Plastics: Let’s Leave Them To Their Own Devices!
Medical plastics are a hot topic these days. The reason is obvious: they’re the right perscription for a wide range of plastic medical devices. The last few years have been particularly productive for...
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Get the Skinny On Plastic Injection Micro-Molding
Plastic injection micro-molding, as its name would imply, is an extremely specialized manufacturing process for producing astonishingly small, high-precision thermoplastic components and parts with...
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Silicone: Is It Right For Plastic Injection Molding Medical Devices?
Let’s cut to the chase: yes. In fact, silicone may even be ideal. Blasephemy, right? Not really. Because, like carbon-based polymers, silicones, which have a backbone of silicon, offer temperature...
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Medical Plastic Injection Molding: The AdvanTech Way
While the skill and dedication of healthcare professionals is undoubtedly vital to the succesful delivery of medical services, the design and manufacture of the medical devices themselves also play a...
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Bio-Assimilation: One More Step Toward Greener Plastics
Are “green” plastics about to get greener? The short-answer is “yes,” but not through recycling alone. (More on that later.) Plastic injection molding companies in Illinois and elsewhere are...
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Bio-Assimilation: The ‘Holy Grail’ That Could Save The Planet
Let’s face it: plastic pollution — in the form of litter on land and in the sea or other marine environments — is a serious problem. And while recycling has been part of the solution, it’s complex,...
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The Top Five Advantages of Plastic Injection Molded Medical Devices
Plastics have literally broken the mold in the healthcare world, no pun intended. In fact, plastic has easily kept up with the dizzying pace of medical science. With the advancements in the healthcare...
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Plastic Has The “Mettle” For Medical Devices
Glass. Rubber. Metal. For hundreds of years, these materials were the only options open for medical device manufacturers. Look at an old medical supply catalog and you’ll see glass IV bottles, rubber...
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Plastic Injection Molding Ways and Means
Here some fun facts regarding the global plastic injection molding market: $360.6 billion in 2019 Forecasted to expand to $498.98 billion by 2027 Plastic Injection Molding machinery at AdvanTech...
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Snap Tops: Built For Strength; Designed For Aesthetics
You’ve seen them before without even noticing: the plastic caps and closures atop products as mundane as clear plastic leftover containers, and as stylish as sleek lipstick cases. As simple as they...
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Plastic Injection Molded Dental Devices: Now That’s A Mouthful!
Plastics and the dental industry seem to go together like a bicuspid and a molar. The reason? Single-use plastic products. Nobody wants a metal dental implement that’s been in someone else’s mouth,...
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The “Big 4” Plastic Injection Molding Methods For Medical Devices
Everyone’s heard they should “think big” in the plastic injection molding industry. While that may be true when talking about profit or volume, that attitude doesn’t really apply to plastic...
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The Most Common Resins For Plastic Medical Parts
Manufacturing plastic medical parts isn’t for the faint of heart — or lung, or hip. Well, all joking aside, it’s a highly-rigorous, highly-regulated process, and rightly so. After all, in many cases,...
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Just Say ‘Yes” to Drugs That Come in Plastic Packaging!
It’s really getting hard to remember that glass was once the material of choice for drug packaging. Expensive, easily-breakable and (in that era) non-recyclable, glass was utilized for all kinds of...
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The “Big Three” of Plastic Injection Molding
While there are many different materials that can be injection-molded, there are only four main types of molding machines: 1. No Screwing Around With Screw Plunger Injection Molding There are two...
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The ‘Eyes’ Have It: Plastic Ophthalmology Lenses, Frames and More
They may still call them “glasses” but more and more these days, eyewear and other ophthalmological devices are made of plastic. Here are some of the most common types: Plastic CR-39 Lenses Plastic...
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A Tip of the 1881 Cap To Bio-Assimilation!
They’re so ubiquitous, they’re almost invisible. Yet open your eyes and you’ll see them everywhere: the 1881 Carbonated Soft Drink (CSD) cap. Odds are there are dozens in your house right now....
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The Future of Plastics: Recycled or Bio-Assimilated?
Plastics are as much a part of our lives as any material extant today. From plastic packaging to plastic medical devices, we simply couldn’t function without them. And yet plastics have a problem:...
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Let’s face it: plastic pollution — in the form of litter on land and in the sea or other marine environments — is a serious problem. And while recycling has been part of the solution, it’s complex,...
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Plastics have literally broken the mold in the healthcare world, no pun intended. In fact, plastic has easily kept up with the dizzying pace of medical science. With the advancements in the healthcare...
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