3D printing - also known as Additive manufacturing (AM) - is transforming how medical components and products with highly complex and high-resolution features are manufactured. At Spectrum, we have developed groundbreaking, proprietary AM technologies and processes to create virtually limitless 3D-printed components from medical-grade thermoplastic materials.
Watch the video to hear Spectrum’s Senior Director of Additive Manufacturing & Innovation, Tyler Stark, share what makes our additive manufacturing program capabilities unparalleled in the industry.
Key Takeaways
Our proprietary additive manufacturing technology at Spectrum Plastic Sandy enables 3D printing of virtually any thermoplastic component, from dilator tips to mold inserts, using any medical-grade material.
Our program can produce materials across the full durometer range (55A to 80D), maintain tight tolerances, and create micro 3D prints and thin-walled profiles with unique characteristics unmatched in the industry.
Our facility offers remarkably quick turnaround times, with some mold inserts available the next day and prototypes delivered in 3-5 days versus traditional injection molding methods.
Video Transcript
I'm Tyler Stark, the Senior Director of Additive Manufacturing and Innovation. I handle the additive manufacturing program that we've recently developed here at Spectrum Plastic Sandy.
Our additive manufacturing program is unique to what we do here at Sandy, as well as unique to the world. We've developed proprietary technology and proprietary processes to create virtually any thermoplastic 3D printed component imaginable. We're able to 3D print components, hubs, dilator tips, extrusion profiles, and mold inserts out of any medical-grade material you can think of.
Our Spectrum additive manufacturing program has capabilities unlike anything in the industry. We're able to produce materials ranging from low durometer to high durometer out of medical grade thermoplastics, such as 55A to 80D, as well as low-temperature to high-temperature materials. We're able to hold tight tolerances, perform micro 3D printing, and create very thin-walled profiles, extrusions, and 3D prints—once again, using virtually any thermoplastic material you can think of.
One of the things we've recently developed is 3D printing mold inserts, which is currently unheard of in the industry. We're still evolving that program, but we're turning things around sometimes in as little as next day.
Using our Spectrum additive manufacturing program, we can prototype handles and create quick turn iterations of those handles versus using conventional methods like injection molding, and get those components in as little as three to five days.
Spectrum is able to achieve tight tolerances and unique characteristics of profiles out of any thermoplastic material that no one else in the world is currently able to do.
