How is Plastic Injection Moulding used in the Medical Industry?

Plastic injection moulding can be utilised in the medical industry as a method of quickly and accurately producing plastic components used to treat patients. The plastic injection moulding process can be used for medical devices, implants, packaging for medication, tubing, and medication delivery devices, including syringes.

Plastic injection moulding is utilised as it is precise, and offers a greater level of consistency compared to other methods of manufacturing. Additionally, it allows for identical components to be repeatedly created in large quantities, which is hugely important for the medical sector, and which requires a high level of accuracy in all its parts, and large batch quantities.

The repeatability of the plastic injection moulding process allows for components to be manufactured with a consistent quality, which is essential for the medical sector, where the accuracy of components used are critical for safety and performance purposes.

Additionally, the plastic injection moulding process is able to generate components with complex geometries and to tight tolerances. This is hugely beneficial to the medical industry, where components often require complex geometries in order to be functional, including filled components which need channels in which to hold the correct dosage of medications.

Further, plastic injection moulding for the medical industry is faster than other methods of plastic manufacturing, and has reduced waste.

Wheatley Plastics has decades of experience in supplying components to the medical sector. Through our continued investment in equipment, we have increased our capabilities in manufacturing medical components. Wheatley Plastics recently made an investment into brand new micro moulding machines to create more medical components to a tighter tolerance.

About Wheatley Plastics

For 70 years, Wheatley Plastics has been a leading supplier of plastic injection moulding services with expertise across a wide range of industries including electronics, medical, packaging, construction, retail, and plumbing.

From our Stockport manufacturing site, we have the machine capacity to produce high-volume orders of small and large plastic products. Our team also has the expertise, patience and technical know-how to meet low-volume, high-value orders subject to customer needs.

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