화학공학소재연구정보센터
Advances in Polymer Technology, Vol.13, No.4, 315-322, 1994
INJECTION-MOLDING OF MEDICAL PLASTICS - A REVIEW
Given the tight competition in the area of plastics for medical applications, the requirements for consistent quality, standardized, safe, and low-cost medical components have become a big challenge for molders. The survival of injection molding companies for medical applications depends strongly on the success of design, manufacturing, and marketing strategies that different companies have established to meet these requirements. Very often, the design and manufacturing operations to produce medical plastics for the health-care market have to be adjusted on a daily basis in order to satisfy increasingly strict, government-regulated, biomedical requirements in addition to all the other pressures expected in this market. As a result, molders of medical plastics are always seeking more systematic ways to improve product quality and produce more at a minimum cost. This brings an advantage to those processors that can combine high-tech molding with low-cost production. In this article, based on the open literature, we present a review of the latest activities (last decade) in the field of injection molding of medical plastics together with some comments on modern injection molding processes that can be used.