Sil-Pro continues its ongoing expansion with the latest addition of a 3,500 square-foot Class 10,000 Cleanroom. This cleanroom facility will incorporate new molding operations to serve the growing requirements of the medical device industry.
“Sil Pro’s growth since its beginning in 1999 has been very rapid,” reports Brian Higgins, Sil-Pro vice president of sales and marketing. “Our growth rate each of the last 4 years has averaged 27%. Our new cleanroom facilities are designed to accommodate this growth rate and more. Four new LIM Presses will be added in the new space by year-end ranging from 40 to 90 tons. Additional equipment is also being installed to provide value-added operations such as slitting, bonding and pad printing.”
“Sil-Pro’s unique facilities and processes, together with our partner relationships with customers, drives this growth,” Higgins reports. “By teaming with customer design engineers during the product development process, we work through design iterations utilizing our CAD design capabilities and medical device experience. We refine the design and an appropriate manufacturing process that includes in-house mold design and build, highly automated manufacturing, assembly and quality verification.”
As a further example of its expertise and growth, Sil-Pro engineers and process planners recently designed and built a high volume automated molding system for a customer requiring an output capacity of 2 million components a week. The components are for a disposable device used in insulin delivery systems.
Currently Sil-Pro has 115 employees. It has ISO 9001:2000 certification providing liquid silicone molding, gum stock molding, and bonding silicone parts to plastics, metal and other silicone parts using medical grade adhesives. Its services include medical device assembly and packaging.