ASSEMBLY Magazine recently asked Paul Chauvin, Vectra engineering manager at Ticona Technical Polymers (Summit, NJ), a few questions on plastic medical device trends, issues and challenges. Chauvin has decades of experience in injection molding, especially in the medical arena.
ASSEMBLY: What are the advantages of using plastic injection molding to manufacture medical device components? Chauvin: Injection molding offers strong cost benefits, especially for large runs and when there is a need for great repeatability of a given geometry in complex parts.