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Medical and biotech customers often need a few hundred parts, not a few hundred thousand. Protoplast's hand-molding practice serves exactly that — full tooling cost never has to be the price of entry.
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Sector S-03
Low volume, high stakes
Typical medical programs at Protoplast run more than 350 but fewer than 500 parts — not enough to justify full production tooling. Using and refining the hand-molding process, with hand-loaded cores and loose inserts, the shop meets low-cost and low-volume demands at once.
Because an operator handles every part, inspection is built into the cycle itself. One such part was headed offshore for production; Protoplast bid, and won it back.
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These programs are described on Protoplast's own pages. No composite case studies, no invented clients.
Once automakers were called on to build medical equipment, GM launched a complete ventilator line and leaned on its suppliers to hit target dates. Protoplast was selected for 12 components and was in production within 4 weeks — against a typical 14 to 18.
Long hours by the entire team, and the program shipped.
In the early days of the pandemic, Protoplast developed two face shields to protect its own employees and front-line workers — and to help local restaurants, gyms and stores stay open.
Aluminum prototype tooling, hand-loaded cores, loose inserts: the toolbox that makes short medical runs economical without giving up dimensional control.
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