Parker's Life Sciences Business Unit services the global medical device, diagnostic, and pharmaceutical markets with a broad range of components, subassemblies and finished devices for healthcare and medical device applications.
Medical Molding
Molding capabilities and processes are specialized and include medium to high volume liquid silicone injection molding, conventional high consistency silicone rubber and organic rubber injection molding and compression molding.
Our medical molding processes include:
- Horizontal and vertical molding presses ranging from 28 tons to 500 tons capability for medium to high volume injection and insert molding of precision components with a range of commercially available engineered materials.
- Medium to high volume insert and over-molding capabilities including plastic inserts, metal inserts (wire, tubing, needles), organic rubber, silicone and suture thread.
- Liquid injection molding (LIM/LSR) presses range in size from 28 tons to 300 tons with semi-automatic, automatic cold-runner and conventional runner capabilities
- High volume organic rubber "flashless" vacuum transfer molding with proprietary high-cavitation tooling.
- Wide range of medical grade molded, insert-molded and over-molded components that are manufactured in either a clean environment or in ISO Class 8 cleanrooms.
Medical ExtrusionsOur extrusion capability portfolio includes a wide range of medical grade tubing, available in single or multi-lumen configurations as well as with radiopaque striping. We specialize in both medical grade silicone and non-occluding coiled wire reinforced (spring encapsulated) silicone tubing used in a variety of applications.
Extrusion process capabilities include:
- Customized tubing and extruded profiles are manufactured to your dimensional specifications. The most used medical grade tubing sizes as well as custom sized tubing with ID’s ranging from 0.012” to 1.0” are available with desired wall thickness. Tubing can be extruded and cut to length to your specific application needs
- Extrusions provided in either peroxide & platinum-cured formulations
- Materials meet USP Class VI standards & ISO 10993 biocompatibility
- All extrusions are manufactured in ISO Class 8 cleanrooms
- Materials are compatible with autoclave, ethylene oxide (EtO), or gamma radiation sterilization methods
Certifications and Standards- FDA registered facility
- ISO 13485:2016
- ISO 14001
- Class 7 and Class 8 cleanrooms
- White rooms for elastomeric molding
- ISO-10993 biocompatible materials
- Polyisoprene elastomer materials compliant to USP <381>, USP Class VI Type 1
Typical Use Applications
Cardiovascular | Anesthesiology | Bariatric surgery | Endoscopy | Nutritional | Drug delivery | Orthopedics | Reconstructive surgery | Urology | General surgery | Wound management | Peristaltic pumps | Multi-lumen catheters | Wound drainage tubes | Enteral feeding catheters | Spring reinforced catheters | Tracheostomy tubes | Foley catheters and cuffs | Vascular loops and shunts | Infusion catheters | Pharmaceutical bioprocess manifolds
