Medical Converting
Converting Services For The Medical Industry
Advantage Converting has been a trusted provider of medical converting services for more than 25 years. As a specialist in medical conversion, we combine technical skill and unparalleled expertise to solve the unique challenges of manufacturing medical solutions. We apply precision, quality, and attention to detail to ensure your products are safe, effective, and innovative.
Advantage Converting provides converting services for thousands of medical products used in various of medical specialties, from cardiology to oncology. We provide medical converting services for surgical equipment, adhesive bandages, burn dressings, and biosensors. Our clean room manufacturingClean room manufacturing refers to converting processes performed in controlled environments where airborne particles, temperature, and humidity are regulated to prevent contamination. capabilities and strict procedures allow us to ensure the highest quality for the most sensitive medical conversions. Our adhesives, custom die cutting, and continuous roll-to-roll manufacturing capabilities are leveraged to create diagnostic tools, wearable devices, and disposables. Whether you’re building the next generation of an existing medical product or producing the industry’s latest innovation, Advantage Converting will work with you to deliver the medical components you need.
Converting Applications for the Medical Industry
At Advantage Converting, we pride ourselves on our reputation as one of the industry’s top medical converting companies. We aim to understand each client’s challenges and develop a manufacturing solution specific to their needs. Our team leverages advanced technology, medically certified process development and decades of design experience to solve the most demanding challenges in medical manufacturing.
Application examples include:
- Advanced wound care: We convert nonwoven tapes, foils, films, hydrocolloids, hydrogels and other materials into advanced wound-care products like intricate dressings and bandages with pressure-sensitive adhesives.
- Device and disposables: We convert components for sealing and insulation assemblies in monitors, liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) and panels. We also create disposables like anti-fog sponges, nasal strips, pulse oximetry tape and more.
- Microfluidics: Examples of our microfluidic converting capabilities include fluid transport, biosensor layers, DNA separation and cell-sorting solutions.
- Packaging, paper and pads: We apply our knowledge and expertise in medical-grade materials to produce a comprehensive range of packaging solutions for medicines, medical treatments and delivery systems.
- Wearable devices: We manufacture flexible short- and long-term wearable components, including instruments that diagnose conditions, deliver medications and monitor health.
Our Medical Converting Services
Our capabilities allow us to fabricate, convert and customize almost any high-performance medical device or system based on your unique requirements. All our services are backed by our ISO 13485-certified facilities, ensuring the highest standards in medical manufacturing. Our precision medical converting services include:
- Die cutting: Our superior technical expertise and advanced manufacturing capabilities equip us to provide top-notch die cut solutions for the medical industry, from the initial design phases through final production.
- Laminating: As reliable medical adhesive converters, our laminating capabilities enable us to add adhesives to various substrates, apply liners to pressure-sensitive materials and create multilayer packaging solutions.
- Slitting and rewinding: With exceptional raw materials expertise and industry-best converting equipment, we can perform precision slitting and rewinding functions for pressure-sensitive and non-pressure-sensitive materials.
- Clean room manufacturing: Our clean room equipment and strict procedures ensure high-quality, sanitary manufacturing for your most sensitive product conversions. All our climate-controlled clean rooms carry ISO 14644 certification.
Materials for Medical Product Manufacturing
The experts at Advantage Converting understand the physical properties and behaviors of the most common substrates in the medical manufacturing industry. We can help you choose the highest-quality and most efficient substrates that minimize product weight, improve resiliency and enhance the overall user experience. In addition to being a 3M Preferred Converter, we work with materials from some of the industry’s most recognized manufacturers.
Several examples include:
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Advantage Converting is proud to work with leading companies to solve real-world challenges – from healing wounds faster to protecting scientific equipment orbiting the Earth.
FAQs
Q: When do I need a clean room?
Clean room manufacturing is primarily used when manufacturing sensitive materials that can be easily contaminated or affected by particles in the air. For example, at Advantage Converting, we have used our clean rooms to manufacture advanced wound care products, solar panel components, and vibration dampeners for the aerospace industry. However, a clean room can be used for any converted good. Our experts can work with you to determine clean room requirements for your project.
Q: What manufacturing processes does Advantage Converting perform in their clean rooms?
We can perform any manufacturing process in our clean rooms, including custom die cutting, laminating, slitting and rewinding, and roll-to-roll manufacturing.
Q: What is clean room manufacturing?
Clean room manufacturing is the use of an enclosed area with strict environmental controls to manufacture sensitive components. The controlled environment – or clean room – limits the presence of dust, airborne microbes, aerosol, and chemical vapors to prevent environmental contamination of sensitive components, such as those for medical, electronic, and aerospace applications.
Advantage Converting has multiple clean rooms that are available for all converted goods. Our clean rooms are certified as ISO 8 / Class 100,000 and ISO 7 / Class 10,000.
Q: Can Advantage Converting meet ultra-narrow slitting width requirements?
While slitting specifications are very dependant on the raw material input, Advantage Converting has slit down to .020″ width on single-sided pressure-sensitive adhesives and films.
Q: What materials can be slit?
A variety of materials can be slit. These materials include papers, films, foils, foams, adhesives, and nonwoven materials.
Advantage Converting leverages years of experience and expertise to evaluate the material and best match the slitting technique and process for the highest quality results.
Q: What is precision slitting?
Precision slitting is the process of cutting a roll of material into specified lengths and widths.
Advantage Converting uses a variety of advanced precision slitting equipment and techniques that allow us to meet a wide range of specifications for size, shape, application, and volume needs. For example, we have precision slit ultra-thin copper (4-10 microns) for advanced lithium batteries as well as large master rolls of proprietary polymers — and everything in between.
Q: What is multi-layer laminating?
Multi-layer laminating is the process of bonding multiple layers of material together. This manufacturing process is used to improve the strength, stability, insulation, appearance, or other properties of the composite material.
Advantage Converting uses a variety of advanced laminating equipment and techniques that allows us to meet a wide range of specifications for size, shape, application, and volume needs. We can provide laminated parts in individual or multi-layer sheet form, or in rolls up to 76” wide.
Q: What materials can be laminated?
A variety of materials can be laminated. These materials include papers, films, foils, foams, adhesives, and nonwoven materials.
Advantage Converting can source the materials required for lamination through our extensive network of partners or laminate materials provided by the customer.
Q: When do I need multi-layer lamination?
Multi-layer lamination is used when a single layer of material lacks the physical performance properties required for an application. For example, plastic layers may be added to a composite material to achieve abrasion resistance and/or improve rigidity. Advantage Converting utilizes advanced equipment and techniques to perform heat assisted lamination and cold roll lamination, allowing us to meet all your multilayer lamination needs. Our experts can work with you to determine when multilayer lamination is beneficial to your application and recommend the best materials to meet your requirements.
Q: What materials can be die cut?
A variety of materials can be die cut. These materials include papers, fabrics, rubbers, foils, foams, non-wovens, films, and plastics.
Advantage Converting can source the materials required for die cutting through our extensive network of partners or use those provided by the customer.