Manufacturing Industry
Stack molding breaks technology barriers: Unimark Plastics pushes the envelope in family stack-molding technology, using an automated assembly cell equipped with high-precision molds, high-speed custom robotics and automation, and secondary welding and packaging equipment to produce extremely tight-tolerance, two-piece suture trays for ETHICON Products Worldwide.(package manufacturing)
Packaging Digest, November, 2004 by Mohan, Anne Marie
Sixteen years ago, the world's leading suture supplier, ETHICON Products Worldwide, approached custom injection molder Unimark Plastics (www.jarden.com), Greenville, SC, with a model for a first-of-its-kind plastic suture tray, along with a mold-flow analysis that said the part couldn't be molded, and challenged the company to make it happen. According to Bill Torris, Unimark director of project engineering, due to Unimark's knowledge of processing and tooling, as well as its manufacturing excellence, the company today can lay claim to having molded nearly 2 billion of the "unmoldable" trays.
Along the way, Unimark and Somerville, NJ-based ETHICON Products, a division of ETHICON, INC., a Johnson & Johnson Company, forged a collaborative relationship that...
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