Rapid medical advances challenge the tooling industry.
The requirement for greater performance in smaller spaces has increased demands for product and process innovation in tubing and other medical products. In turn, these developments have placed greater demands on the producers of the advanced tooling for these products. Tooling manufacturers must now continuously design equipment with much tighter tolerances for more sophisticated coextrusions and for newer generations of multilumen and multilayer tubing.
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Guill Tool & Engineering Co. Inc., West Warwick, Rhode Island 02893, USA. bconley@guill.com
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