Pharmaceutical Injection Molding
All-Plastics has documented success delivering defect free plastic packaging and drug delivery devices to the Pharmaceuticals industry where proper dose administration and efficacy are critical.
Our experts provide Project Management solutions from Concept to Operational Excellence, including full program documentation and component traceability.
The Plastic Injection Molding Process in Pharmaceuticals
All-Plastics uses a state-of-the-art injection molding process to produce pharmaceutical bottles and other medical-grade packaging materials. This process involves the injection of liquid-state thermoplastics and thermosetting polymers to manufacture complex products, including those needed in pharmaceuticals, such as single-use medical supplies and medical equipment.
Overview
Plastic injection molding is a go-to manufacturing process for the large-scale production of items with complex configurations. With this process, manufacturers are able to save time and resources while maintaining the highest quality standards, which is the foremost requirement in the pharmaceutical industry.
Pharmaceutical injection molding begins with the production of the mold itself. These are made of metal, either aluminum or steel, and machined with precision to match the target product specifications. Once the mold has been produced, molten plastic material is fed into the mold cavity, where it conforms to the shape and cools down until it hardens.
Advantages of Pharmaceutical Injection Molding
All-Plastics caters to your need for quality and precision for the high-volume production of medical-grade plastics, such as pharmaceutical bottles, specimen cups, and medical packaging, among many others.
Our pharmaceutical injection molding process enables us to deliver high-quality products that meet your target specifications and offers the following benefits:
- Traceability: Active monitoring during the manufacturing process enables complete traceability of manufactured products, which ensures product quality while allowing full accountability in crises.
- Quality and Regulatory Compliance: All-Plastics uses high-quality, pharmaceutical-grade polymers during injection molding to produce safe products that comply with strict FDA guidelines.
- Material Efficiency: Sustainability and efficiency begin with process conceptualization and design. The All-Plastics manufacturing process has been designed with material efficiency in mind, producing less waste and recycling any excess materials. This enables us to deliver more cost-effective solutions without compromising quality while significantly reducing our environmental footprint.
- Versatility: Customized options are available to deliver solutions that match your specific requirements, regardless of their shape or complexity.
- Precision Manufacturing: Accuracy and precision are essential in the high-volume manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. Injection molding enables us to make our production process more repeatable, which means all products we manufacture meet your target specifications and applications.
- Strong Mechanical Properties: Products of the injection molding process are made from high-grade polymer resins that exhibit strong mechanical properties in terms of temperature resistance, tensile strength and various tolerances. These can also be enhanced with the inclusion of additional materials depending on your specific need.
- Cost-Effective: The high-level reproducibility and efficiency of our injection molding process allow us to reduce production and labor costs without sacrificing product quality. This enables us to pass these savings on to our customers.
Pharmaceutical Applications
All-Plastics helps create, design, and mold a variety of custom high volume disposable pharmaceutical injection molding solutions to reliably hold, seal, or dispense products. Some of the types of products we produce are:
- Closures
- Caps
- Specimen Cups
- Jars
- Applicators
- Devices
- And more…
White Space & Clean Room Injection Molding Capabilities
- Wide range of best-in-class medical injection molding equipment (tonnage 14 – 1,000/ shot size 0.358 – 288 oz)
- Class 100,000 Clean Room (ISO Class 8) injection molding
- Class 10,000 Clean Room (ISO Class 7) injection molding
- Hardwall & Portable Clean Rooms
- Patented in-mold labeling & assembly capabilities
- Complete Quality Control & Inspection
- Shot-by-shot Part Traceability
- ISO 13485: 2016 Certified
- IQ/OQ/PQ Validation, Per Customer Requirements
- Fully Automated Work Cells: servo robotics, vision systems, box loaders & more
- Speed-to-Market
- Class I/Class II/ Class III devices
- Full range industry leading secondary equipment and assembly
- Processing expertise with a wide range of materials
- Cavity Sorting
- Decoupled III Systematic Molding
- Material Handling
- Product Validation
- Over Molding
- Part Verification
- Multi-shot Molding
- Real Time Production Reporting
- Assembly
- Product Development
- Insert Molding
- Project Launch & Transfer
- Precision Color Blending
- Program Management