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Tessy plans $9 million expansion to New York site

January 21, 2010

Injection Molding, Business, Medical, Packaging

Custom injection molder Tessy Plastics (Elbridge, NY) is investing $9 million in an expansion of its Elbridge, NY site, including a new 90,000-ft 2 building and $2 million worth of machinery. The investment is part of a strategic plan to dedicate its existing building to medical customers and shift...

Moll lands three-year syringe contract

January 15, 2010

Injection Molding, Business, Medical

IMM Staff

Medical molder Moll Industries Inc. (Dallas, TX) has signed a three-year manufacturing agreement with Protectus Medical Devices Inc. to supply molded components for its Protectus Safety Syringe. In a release, Protectus says Moll's injection molding capabilities, and specifically its expertise in...

PEEK lends bite to dental sticks

January 15, 2010

Injection Molding, Medical, Materials

Matt Defosse

Its ability to withstand multiple cycles of dry-heat sterilization made PEEK a natural choice when Dentronix, a Coltene/Whaledent subsidiary, was designing its new "High Heat" dental bite stick. Strength and other characteristics also played into the material's hand. And because processing the...

Medical: Roush buys Nypro life science unit

October 30, 2008

Medical

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Roush Enterprises Inc. (Livonia, MI; www.roushind.com ) has expanded its reach into the medical market via the purchase of Nypro’s life sciences division. Calling the new business Roush Life Sciences, the unit will provide engineering and OEM proprietary products to healthcare and distribution...

Phthalates controversy shows no sign of slowing

October 14, 2008

Materials, Medical

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Regulations in the making could spell hard times for PVC in medical devices—or at least for PVC plasticized with phthalates. Or, as in the past, recent news may prove more smoke than fire. Despite controversy surrounding its use, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) remains the most widely used plastic in...

MRPC expands with two cleanrooms, four presses

October 07, 2008

Injection Molding, Medical

Amie Chitwood

Medical device component/assembly manufacturer MRPC ( www.mrpcorp.com ) has added two cleanrooms—a Class 10,000 (2000 ft 2 ) and Class 100,000 (3000 ft 2 )—to its Butler, WI facility. Four new molding machines are also part of the expansion: two 40-ton LIM machines for molding liquid silicone...

Medical: Heraeus opens first phase of consolidated medical device campus

October 03, 2008

Medical

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Heraeus Medical Components (St. Paul, MN) recently opened the doors to its new North American campus, in a culmination of work to consolidate its five sites in the state to one in St. Paul. To be built in three phases over two years, the project’s initial construction, which is complete, features...

Molders investing plenty in cleanroom molding, assembly

September 29, 2008

Medical

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Cleanrooms are the currency of the realm in medical molding, and many molders that currently sell into, or would like to serve the medical market, are adding or expanding such operations in their plants. For instance, at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East event in June in NYC, GW Plastics...

Medical: Tessy breaks ground on expansion, adds cleanrooms, machinery, and staff

September 25, 2008

Injection Molding, Medical

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After a slowdown in business forced it to delay the move, medical molder Tessy Plastics Corp. (Elbridge, NY) has broken ground on an expansion, opting for a $2-million, 40,000-sq-ft addition instead of a separate, 82,000-sq-ft, $16-million medical building, according to a report in The Central New...

Medical: Spectrum adds two Milacron machines

September 25, 2008

Injection Molding, Medical

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Medical-device manufacturer Spectrum Plastics Group (formerly Midwest Plastic Components; Minneapolis, MN) has installed two new injection molding machines, including a Cincinnati Milacron Magna V30-s and a Milacron-Fanuc Roboshot S-2000i55B. Spectrum cited new customers and the transfer of tools...

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