Once these new devices are produced, we assist our customers in transitioning the project into the production phase. Quality and customer satisfaction are our primary goals, and Aberdeen can work with both high and low quantity requirements with over 700 square feet of cleanroom injection molding space.

Short run production follows essentially the same manufacturing process as any other injection molding run. That means that appropriate materials need to be selected and tooling needs to be created specifically for each short run project. Plastic injection molders will have some things that you need for your project, like the injection mechanism, on hand. However, the mold itself must be custom created for each project. Because the mold has to be manufactured regardless of the size of the run, you can expect higher cost per part in short run production. However, short runs have the advantage of extremely fast time to market. Prototypes can be produced and evaluated quickly and working models can be in customers’ hands within a very short timeframe.Short run production can also help prepare for long run production, if that’s where your project is headed. Short run tools can be easily and inexpensively modified to become long run tools, and the revenue from an initial short run can help finance production costs in a long run.

Aberdeen’s primary goal is total customer satisfaction for even your most challenging projects. Our company culture is one of honor, respect and service with the highest degree of competence and professionalism that you will find anywhere.

The process is capable of making FDA approved medical devices that are both durable and reliable. This type of molding can also be used to make prototypes to send and get the much-needed FDA approval. Medical injection molding can be performed in a clean room and the components can be sterilized without harm as well. Let's take a look at injection molding.​

Sometimes the components need to be manufactured separately and then assembled. This is very common in many cases and this can be done by hand or robot.

Short run production, also sometimes called small batch injection molding, produces a limited number of parts, either for highly specialized projects or for preliminary manufacturing of eventually larger runs. For this reason, short run production is often used in initial product development to create a set of pieces to determine whether they work together as intended. Short run production can also be used to create replacement parts after a product is on the market. During the initial product release, a long run may be necessary, but after that point a smaller number of parts may need to be continually produced for service and replacement.

We provide assistance throughout each stage of your program, from design recommendation through mold tooling fabrication, prototyping, first article approval, process validation, full scale production medical molding, and transfer of turnkey system to customer facilities if requested.

Plastic injection molding is famous for long run production, where large quantities of parts (often in the millions) are produced quickly. To accommodate this capacity, long run production uses bigger molds than short run production, and tends to have higher startup costs, though the cost per part is low when compared to other manufacturing methods.

However, there are other types of plastics called thermosets that also can be used for injection molding, but the process is far different. These materials are most likely not going to be used for medical molding as they cannot be recycled as easily as the thermoplastic materials.  Because of this, you don't see thermosets used as often as you do thermoplastics. A good example of a thermoset is your car tires. This is where they cannot be melted down and reshaped into something.

Even if you’ve already done a short run, you’ll need to invest in a more complex set of molds for a long run manufacturing process. In a long run, each mold typically contains multiple cavities, meaning they are more expensive to produce than the molds used in limited short runs.You can also expect high material costs at the start of long run production, as large quantities of material are needed to produce the high part counts characteristic of this production process. ROI in a long run comes from volume. Long runs work quickly to churn out large numbers of parts; the more parts that are produced, the lower the cost per part as the price of the mold and material is distributed among them. The faster parts are produced, the more quickly you get your investment back and the run begins to pay dividends. Whether you need a short or a long run for your project, Thogus is here to help. Learn more about our injection molding capabilities.

Medical injection molding is a core technology of Aberdeen Technologies and represents a cutting edge solution to the manufacturing needs of healthcare companies who produce medical molded devices. As an insert molding manufacturer, we provide assistance to device manufacturers who approach us with new product concepts and ask us to mold parts for clinical trials and marketing evaluations.

Plastic injection molding is a highly versatile manufacturing process; it can produce large quantities of parts relatively inexpensively in a short period of time, or it can allow for meticulous product development, smaller batches of parts, and more extensive prototyping. The kind of run you need will depend on your end goals for your part, as well as its complexity and your project timeline. The following considerations and expectations will help you decide between short run production and long run production for your project.

Founded in 1950, Thogus is an established, family-owned custom plastic injection molder and contract manufacturer headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio.

In the medical field, we often see metal combined with the plastic part. This is called insert molding and is a very common practice for injection molders to do. You see this all over the medical arena from needles to EKG hook up leads and more.

Injection molding is a very common way to form plastic parts and components. Depending on the material, the parts can be very strict with their tolerances as well as easy to process. Injection molding is one of the most common types of forming plastics. It is used in a variety of industries and not just for medical injection molding. In fact, you probably have a wide variety of injection molded parts all around you and simply don't know it. Your basic pens, your keyboard, and even your phone have injection molded components in them. ​

Prime examples were molding non-communicating passageways through a plastic manifold, molding critical tolerance pacemaker components, and even molding around glass formations without breaking or cracking. Our advanced injection molding equipment makes even the most difficult projects possible.

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Medical injection molding is a manufacturing process that produces plastic medical devices and components. It involves melting plastic resin pellets and injecting the molten material into a mold to create a specific shape. This process allows for precise control over the product's size and shape and is subject to strict quality and regulatory standards.

The most common types of materials used in medical insert molding are thermoplastics. These are materials that can be heated up into a molten state and pushed through a barrel into a mold. These molds can simply be open and shut type designs, which are what you would expect for, say a simple product such as a cake mold. Or they can be very complex with moving side parts called slides. Of course, the simpler the mold the better for maintenance and longevity. However, complex parts will need these complex designs in order to produce the desired part.