Parker's Life Sciences Business Unit services the global medical device, diagnostic, and pharmaceutical markets with a broad range of components, subassemblies and finished devices for healthcare and medical device applications.
Medical Molding
Molding capabilities and processes are specialized and include medium to high volume liquid silicone injection molding, conventional high consistency silicone rubber and organic rubber injection molding and compression molding.
Our medical molding processes include:
Horizontal and vertical molding presses ranging from 28 tons to 500 tons capability for medium to high volume injection and insert molding of precision components with a range of commercially available engineered materials.
Medium to high volume insert and over-molding capabilities including plastic inserts, metal inserts (wire, tubing, needles), organic rubber, silicone and suture thread.
Liquid injection molding (LIM/LSR) presses range in size from 28 tons to 300 tons with semi-automatic, automatic cold-runner and conventional runner capabilities
High volume organic rubber "flashless" vacuum transfer molding with proprietary high-cavitation tooling.
Wide range of medical grade molded, insert-molded and over-molded components that are manufactured in either a clean environment or in ISO Class 8 cleanrooms.
Medical Extrusions
Our extrusion capability portfolio includes a wide range of medical grade tubing, available in single or multi-lumen configurations as well as with radiopaque striping. We specialize in both medical grade silicone and non-occluding coiled wire reinforced (spring encapsulated) silicone tubing used in a variety of applications.