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lot of are good performers. Another benefit is that when we are using a lot of a given material, we get a good price on it. We can save the client money in that way and get them a better material.
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“The other thing we try to do—and it’s more difficult in the medical device field because of FDA-mandated safety and effi- cacy testing—is to qualify a backup material for the customer,” Kvalo said. The reason this is important points to a difference between working with plastics and work- ing with metals: While a manufacturer can presumably get a needed grade of steel or titanium from more than one supplier, the custom-made formulations of plastics are proprietary—made by a single company and sometimes made only at a single facility. So if a fire or natural disaster cuts off access to that single source, the medical OEM can get burnt. It can take six months to get use of a different grade of material approved by the FDA. “So when a backup material can be qualified up front, it can save a lot of trouble later on,” Kvalo explained.
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EVCO Plastics has been on the front lines of a trend in the industry to, when feasible, move from metals to plastics. There are a number of reasons that the latter can be a better choice. One of the most important of these is that working in plastics can simplify the manufactur- ing process, saving time and removing variables that can affect part quality.
“The tooling in injection molding is probably the most expensive tooling
of any plastic process and technology—but if you make that investment, you end up with the lowest part cost.”
“Generally speaking, when we’re talking about going from metal to
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