3D Printing + Injection Molding: COVID-19 Collaboration Scales Up Within A Week

 

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MiMo mask adaptors made using KRAIBURG TM7 MED grade [Image: AddiFab]

MiMo mask adaptors made using KRAIBURG TM7 MED grade [Image: AddiFab]

Scaling up production to help in the fight against pandemic poses certain challenges — that are increasingly possible to overcome.

Most uses of 3D printing in addressing COVID-19 are quick-response, stop-gap supply chain needs for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other need-it-now goods. It is generally acknowledged that these first response measures are just that: a first response, typically the vanguard of full-scale efforts realized by more traditional mass production manufacturing like injection molding.

A new joint effort, though, is seeing the benefit of 3D printing combined with injection molding to have reached a scale solution in six days.

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