Fleur Plastics is located in Boxtel (near Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and has been a producer of technical plastic products for more than 15 years. The core business of Fleur Plastics is plastic injection moulding and we want to continue to develop on this as much as possible. As an involved partner, we gladly discuss your entire project, starting from the product drawings and construction of moulds, to optimize the final production. We use top notch injection moulding processing techniques to produce these products in all types of thermoplastic plastics. As a family business in the plastic injection moulding industry, we are able to provide our customers with expertise, quality, service and flexibility.

Injection molding produces parts with a high level of structural integrity, ensuring they can withstand the rigors of their intended application. These parts are less prone to defects and offer superior performance over their lifecycle.

Injection molding offers unmatched precision and consistency in the production of medical device components. The process allows for intricate designs and tight tolerances, ensuring that each part is identical to the next. This uniformity is crucial in the medical field, where reliability and precision are paramount.

Many medical devices must be in direct contact with the human body. Injection molding allows manufacturers to choose biocompatible materials, ensuring patient safety. These materials can be sterilized without affecting their properties, making them suitable for a wide range of medical applications.

One of the most significant advantages of injection molding is its design flexibility. Engineers can create complex, customized components with minimal tooling changes. This adaptability is essential in a field where the demand for innovative and unique medical devices is ever-expanding.

Injection molded parts can undergo a variety of post-processing operations, such as assembly, machining, laser marking, pad printing or surface finishing, to meet the exact requirements of the medical device.

Meeting stringent regulatory requirements is a non-negotiable in the medical device industry. Injection molding excels in this regard. The ability to use FDA-approved materials and consistently produce parts that meet these standards ensures compliance from the outset.

Process validation is the best way to ensure the production of safe parts, to reduce rejection rates, to prevent part failures in the field and to ensure the part meets with application, specification and regulatory obligations.

Injection molding for medical devices represents the perfect synergy of precision engineering and advanced manufacturing technology. Its benefits, from precision and consistency to cost-efficiency and regulatory compliance, make it a top choice for design engineers and medical device manufacturers. The process empowers engineers to innovate, create intricate components, and bring lifesaving devices to market faster than ever before. The future of medical device manufacturing is being molded with precision, and injection molding is at the forefront of this revolution.

In addition to 3D product drawings, injection moulds and plastic injection moulding, the various plastic materials are also important for the quality of your products. For each new injection moulded product, we consider which material is best to use. After all, the type of material must match the application of the injection moulded product. The wide range of types of plastics each have unique mechanical properties, but in general, plastics offer greater design freedom, weight savings and are widely applicable. Due to the different prices of the plastic materials, choosing the right material can immediately save costs for you. One of our sustainable and high-quality raw materials is polyethylene (PE).

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PTI Engineered Plastics provides medical device manufacturers with full-service advanced product development delivered in a compressed timeframe. With superior design for manufacturability, tooling, and molding capabilities, PTI turns product visions into reality and gets your product to market first.

Because polyethylene softens the moment it is heated, you can easily process it and use the material for a wide variety of applications. By melting the polyethylene granules (granulate), we can convert them into various end applications, such as lids, packaging and seals.

In many cases, our medical device customers look to process validation to ensure quality parts.  After all, patients lives depend on PTI to deliver high quality parts each and every time.

The high initial tooling costs can be a barrier to entry for some manufacturers. However, once the molds are in place, injection molding is incredibly cost-effective for large production runs. The ability to produce a large number of parts in a short time reduces unit costs significantly, making it an ideal choice for mass production.

Injection molding allows medical design engineers the freedom to design complex or intricate parts, a vast selection of suitable materials and the consistency to produce both low and high volumes of devices.

Careful selection of materials is extremely important within the medical industry. Materials must meet FDA and other regulatory standards, ensuring patient safety, biocompatibility, sterilizability and durability.  As Injection molding allows for a vast selection of both thermoplastic and thermoset materials to choose from, there is certain to be a material suitable for just about any application.

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PE is available as HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and LDPE (Low Density Polyethylene) among others. HDPE, with a higher density, is more applicable at higher temperatures and is more chemically resistant. LDPE is a softer material and therefore has a higher resilience.

Injection molding is scalable, which means it can cater to a variety of production volumes, from small-scale prototypes to mass production. This scalability offers manufacturers the flexibility to meet different market demands.

Process Validation as defined by the FDA is “The collection and evaluation of data, from the process design stage throughout production, which establishes scientific evidence that a process is capable of consistently delivering quality products.”

We have been serving the medical industry for nearly 40 years, specializing in handling complex, multi-part programs and medical device molding for a variety of customers. Our direct contact with doctors and other medical professionals gives us insight into their needs and helps define and assist with final product solutions.

At PTI, we collaborate with you to achieve the best possible design for manufacturability.  In fact, we have a FREE guide to help you with this.

Our modern moulding facility is optimized to work day and night. Our machines produce polyethylene injection moulded products, ranging from 1 to 420 grams. In addition, we share our expertise through project management in the Netherlands. If you have any questions about your project or PE injection moulding, gladly get in touch with us.

Some of the most common materials used in medical devices are: Polypropylene, ABS, Polyurethane, Polyvinylchloride, Polycarbonate, Polystyrene, Polysulfone, Acetal and Polyethylene.

Mold Design is a crucial step in the injection molding process.  Once you’ve finalized your part in CAD software for fit and function, it must then be transformed into a design for molding to ensure the capture of all the specified details.  In some cases, certain features of the part design may not be manufacturable via the injection molding process.

Thanks to its unique properties, polyethylene can call itself the most widely used plastic in the world. PE can be found in various industries due to its favorable properties and low price. It is a soft plastic, which remains flexible and usable up to -50 degrees Celsius. In addition, PE has a high chemical resistance and negligible moisture absorption. Polyethylene is naturally transparent, but any desired color can be made by using pigments.

With streamlined production processes, injection molding can significantly reduce time-to-market for medical devices. This is crucial in a rapidly evolving industry where innovations can make a significant impact on patient care and outcomes.

Furthermore, we have over 5,000 square feet of controlled environment space.  This segregated area is temperature controlled and pressurized, and can accommodate part decorating, assembly and packaging needs.

In plastic injection moulding, plastic is melted and injected into an injection mould under high pressure. The mould is shaped after the desired product. During the cooling process, an additional amount of material is pressed into the mould to account for the shrinkage of the material. When the product has cooled sufficiently, the mould opens and the product is ejected.

At PTI, we have over 16,000 square feet of ISO Class 8 cleanroom space that we utilize in our injection molding process to ensure as little contamination as possible.  We adhere to strict protocols that meet the demands the medical industry requiring ISO 14644 Cleanroom specifications, including bioburden and electrostatic discharge (ESD).

The injection molding process generates minimal material waste compared to other manufacturing methods. This not only contributes to cost savings but also aligns with the increasing focus on sustainable and environmentally friendly manufacturing practices.

Having served the medical industry for nearly 40 years, we understand medical device manufacturing.   Plastic Injection Molding remains one of the best manufacturing methods for achieving precision and cost-efficiency as well as maintaining patient safety.