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News Release from: Engel Austria | Subject: Engel e-victory injection moulding machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 November 2007
Plastics injection moulder operates in
clean rooms
For producing medical components, a tiebarless, 500kN injection moulding machine produced micro-fluid test elements, under strictest clean room conditions at K-2007.
At the recent German K-2007 plastics exhibition in Dusseldorf, Austrian injection moulding machine builder, Engel, showed a turnkey medical technology components production system The tiebar-less Engel e-victory injection moulding machine is GMP-qualified for use in clean rooms
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The machine has a clamping force of 500kN and produced micro-fluid test elements, under strictest clean room conditions.
Engel said that these 'labs on a chip' (LOC) are sealed in plastics bags in the clean room.
Engel also demonstrated the manufacturing of a structured plastics plate with a large number of minute channels and gutters, of micron scale volumes.
These had to be clearly formed to guarantee functionality of the chip in analysis equipment.
LOCs are used for fast analysis of bodily fluids on site; a task that is typically the domain of large-scale laboratoriess today.
A Engel tiebar-less e-victory 80/50 'Medical' injection moulding machine with servo-electrically driven injection unit produced a 'lab on a chip' made of Cyclo Olefin Copolymer (COC).
The machine used a two-fold mould made by Z-Werkzeugbau in Dornbirn, Austria.
Engel, in a report to manufacturingtalk.com, said that the machine was developed for compliance with c'GMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) of the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration).
To support systematic research into cause and effect of certain details of the machine's design, Engel invested in a Class 6 clean room to DIN EN ISO 14644-1 for the application technology centre at Engel 's main works in Schwertberg, and certified the clean room to comply with c'GMP.
The 'Medical' injection moulding machine has a special plasticising system, which avoids the hot, gaseous, plastics emissions from the nozzle area, and prevents the heat dissipating into the clean room.
The victory 80/50 Medical machine was linked with a small, Staubli TX40 six-axis robot, which was located in close proximity to the mould to handle moulded parts with minimal stroke lengths.
Also during the show, Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme (hot runner system - Ed), of Frankenberg in Germany showed a second a fully electric Engel e-motion 200H/200W/100 combi machine equipped with an ENGEL ERC 23/1-F robot.
It was producing a two-component part made of polypropylene and TPE.
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