Medical Industry

For a medical application, our customer had been using a sheet membrane fabricated from sheet silicone material that was glued to chipboard to give it strength. The process was expensive, but no supplier had been able to mold a thin-walled membrane capable of holding a dimension within .0022 to .0032 inches. When an engineer visited the Quadra-Tek™ site and saw a turkey-caller membrane being molded for another customer, he asked us to help in the development of the molded membrane. Working together, we made a compression prototype that was successful in its application. Although it was a difficult transition, we worked with the toolmaker to perfect an eight-cavity compression mold that achieved absolute uniformity - producing identical shot weight each time.

Result: The project was so successful that Quadra-Tek™ had to build two eight-cavity molds to meet product demand.