INEOS Styrolution and Schoettli have joined forces to develop specialised material and tailored tooling solutions to deliver a solution for the production of drip chamber components.
Drip chambers are demanding for the materials used and for the tools deployed to manufacture them. For example, the material is expected to provide very good transparency, softness and bonding properties.
Traditional materials for drip chamber production include PVC, Polypropylene and various compounds. They all face the challenge that some of the required product properties seem to contradict each other and optimising one property may have a negative impact on another one.
INEOS Styrolution and Schoettli claim to have successfully addressed that challenge with Schoettli’s injection moulding tools minimise the effect with respective demoulding capabilities and ensure the required reliability of stable wall thickness.
In addition, the flowability of INEOS Styrolution’s Styrolux 4G 60 combined with the Schöttli hot runner technology for single and dual side gating contributed significantly to successfully built high cavitation tools for manufacturing of drip chambers.
Bernd Elbert, business development manager of healthcare & packaging at INEOS Styrolution said: “I am excited to be able to present our customers a complete solution that they can put a lot of trust into. Our Styrolux 4G 60 copolymer offers an excellent combination of high transparency, brilliance and impact resistance making it the material of choice for drip chamber development.”
Dominik Sinzinger, head of medical sales EMEA at Schoettli added: “Jointly, we have developed a top-quality solution and continuously improving the existing. I expect it to be an excellent solution for leading healthcare solution providers. Thanks to our unique hot runner technology we have a direct gated solution available for a reliable and efficient manufacturing of drip chambers being designed to reduce the use of materials in the manufacturing process – and all components being designed with the objective to allow for a long lifetime and very low maintenance producing the highest quality at the lowest cost per part.”