As this article discusses, injection-moulded medical devices and components may look simple to the untrained eye. But, in fact, they can have extremely tight tolerances and require moulds built with the precision of a Swiss watch. Florian Beck, who heads the development team at Tegra Medical/Stamm in Hallau, Switzerland, writes about what is involved in mould making in this article published in Medical Device Developments.
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