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2008

Sil-Pro Announces New Lean Manufacturing Facilities/Processes
For Its Medical Liquid Injection Molding Capabilities –

To Exhibit At Medical Design & Manufacturing Show
June 3-5 At Booth 673

Sil-Pro Lean Manufacturing

Delano, Minnesota: Sil-Pro Silicone Professionals announced a major round of Lean Improvements to its medical Liquid Injection Molding (LIM) facilities.

Within its 12 LIM cells, new post cure ovens have been added to each cell. The manufacturing process has been streamlined and consolidated to minimize part moves and wait time between operations. Following Liquid Injection Molding, adjacent post curing, microscopic trim/inspect, wash and package operations are completed all within one cell. Throughout these operations, rolling loop video monitoring displays component print and specifications to facilitate both production and inspection operations.

Benefits of this latest round of Lean Improvements at Sil-Pro is faster throughput and highest medical quality products while reducing in-process inventory.

"Lean has been an ongoing initiative at Sil-Pro since it began operations in 1998," reports Brian Higgins, sales manager. "These new capabilities will help our customers with accelerated time-to-market projects and provide many cost-effective benefits. As a large scale molder of medical silicone components and assemblies, Sil-Pro has the experience and resources to provide medical companies with the quality and turnaround time they require."

Sil-Pro is a 100 employee company and is a highly specialized silicone molder serving the medical injection molding industry. It has ISO 9001:2000 certification providing CAD product development, mold design and build and class 10,000 clean room molding. These capabilities are augmented by fully automated molding cells, complete assembly and packaging services. Included in Sil-Pro’s capabilities are liquid silicone molding, gum stock molding and bonding silicone parts to plastics, metal and other silicone parts using medical grade adhesives. Sil-Pro’s bonding and assembly capabilities include robotic equipment and part specific fixturing to aid in the manufacturing process.

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