In the medical components and device industries there’s simply no room for error. Because injection molding is a precision process it’s ideally suited to creating high quality and consistent parts in large volumes..
Additionally, when considering silicone for medical devices and components – injection molding offers a closed material delivery system to prevent contamination and provides clean product. Alternatively, oversees silicone production typically relies on compression molding and is not as clean or controlled.
Producing medical components with injection molding on a large scale can, in some cases, allow you to create disposable items that do not need to be sterilized and reused – reducing risk. Where parts can’t and shouldn’t be disposable, silicone injection molding offers a sterile way of producing durable components. During production, antimicrobial agents can also be mixed into the liquid resin resulting in components that have microbe resistant surfaces.