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Juan Carlos García, Gerente Comercial Regional de Dispositivos Médicos y Flexibles de Spectrum, habla sobre la expansión más reciente de las instalaciones de Costa Rica.
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Spectrum Plastics Group Costa Rica
Juan Carlos Garcia, Regional Business Manager for Spectrum Medical Device and Flexibles, talks about the newest Costa Rica facility expansion.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Pleasant Prairie
Take a virtual tour of our 161,000 sq. ft. Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, location. This state-of-the-art facility has a world-class ISO Class 7 cleanroom and an analytical lab.
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Spectrum Plastics Group: Engineering for Spectrum Flexibles
Watch this video to hear from Laura Favitta – our Director of Engineering for Spectrum Flexibles. Laura talks about our flexible film and packaging for both sterile and non-sterile applications as well as medical drapes and covers.
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Mantle Metal 3D Printing
Luke Thiele, Manufacturing Engineering Manager in Minneapolis, MN, talks about Spectrum's investment in advanced metal 3D printing capabilities with Mantle.
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Spectrum Plastics Group: Engineering Team
Angela Hu, Sr Engineering Manager, is responsible for new product introduction in both Minneapolis, MN and Pittsfield, MA. At Spectrum, we are focused on design support for manufacturability.
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New Cleanroom Capabilities at Spectrum Wisconsin Facility
Spectrum announces the grand opening of our new state-of-the-art cleanroom at the Spectrum Plastics Wisconsin facility.
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Fluid Management Plastic Components
Spectrum is the global leader and largest custom extruder of fluid management tubing for the medical device industry.
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Your First-Call Solutions Provider
At Spectrum, we are your first-call solutions provider for development through commercialization of critical components and medical devices.
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Spectrum Touching Lives
Spectrum has your next-generation solutions for critical healthcare applications. Our purpose-driven mission drives our innovation impacting people’s lives worldwide.
PVC coil tubing
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Automation Solutions for Customer Challenges in Extrusion Assembly & Fluid Managements
Spectrum Plastics Group, a DuPont Business, was entrusted with a pivotal project for a medical device client involving crucial coil PVC tubing.
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Supply Chains in Motion: A Manufacturing Transfer Success Story
Spectrum shares the challenges, solutions, and what sets our team apart when facilitating a successful manufacturing transfer of medical devices or components.
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Cleanroom Injection Molding
The cleanroom facility in Minneapolis is an ISO Class 8 room with 10,000 square feet of controlled environment.
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Comprehensive Guide to Overmolding
This in-depth guide to overmolding covers design best practices, material selection, and more. Improve your design and manufacturing process with expert tips.
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Adding Value to the Laser Manufacturing Process
Spectrum drills thousands of microscopic holes in heat-resistant polyimide film and adds value to the laser manufacturing process
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Injection Mold Tooling
This detailed injection mold tooling guide covers essential components and design considerations for cost-effective injection molding tooling projects.
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Metrology Lab
Spectrum's inspection lab has a range of measurement capabilities, including high-precision coordinate measuring machines. See them in action.
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6 Lessons Learned from One Year in the CEO’s Chair
6 lessons learned from John Wolf, Spectrum’s President and CEO. John is helping to steer the company into the future with innovative technology and inspiring teamwork.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Sandy
Take a virtual tour of our 100,000 sq. ft. Sandy, Utah, location that has more than 15k sq. ft. of Class 7 cleanroom and more than 10k sq. ft. of extrusion area.
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Spectrum Plastics Group Customer Service
Spectrum cares deeply for customers by providing fast response times with highly technical solutions to the toughest challenges.
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Spectrum Plastics Group Careers
Learn all about Life at Spectrum through the eyes of our team. In this video, our team members discuss their experience at Spectrum.
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Spectrum Plastics Group Minneapolis: Project Engineering
Our team is committed to our customers, and from concept to full-scale product, we assist them throughout the entire product life cycle.
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Spectrum is Committed to Safety
As part of its goal of being a company with a positive and engaging culture, Spectrum is committed to keeping its team, the environment, and resources safe.
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Spectrum Cares About Social Responsibility
Spectrum Plastics Group cares deeply about corporate social responsibility and environmental, social & governance accountability.
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Spectrum Plastics Group Sandy: Engineering Team
Learn what challenging applications our team of engineers at Spectrum Plastics Group Sandy successfully take with our advanced catheter and extrusion technology capabilities.
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Spectrum Plastics Group Minneapolis: Engineering Team
Learn how Spectrum and our extensive team of engineers at Spectrum Plastics Group Minneapolis can support you on your next medical molding project.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Minneapolis
Take a virtual tour at Spectrum Minneapolis. Imagine your next complex, tight-tolerance injection molding, and assembly project becoming a reality with the help of our expert engineers and manufacturing teams.
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing
We have developed groundbreaking, proprietary AM technologies and processes to create virtually limitless 3D-printed components from medical-grade thermoplastic materials.
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Specialty & Medical Flexibles Business Unit
We are a manufacturer of custom film and flexible packaging solutions for healthcare, automation, food, and industrial applications.
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Femtosecond Lasers
Watch this video to learn about how femtosecond lasers are the fastest, highest-precision lasers in micromanufacturing today.
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The Importance of Design for Manufacturing
Design for manufacturing involves efficiently designing or engineering an object. Learn how DFM works and how it improves the manufacturing process.
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Innovation
We continually innovate new thoughts and solutions to create true partnerships—enabling device development in ways only possible with our innovative technologies.
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Measurement Systems for Specialty Medical Device Injection Molding
Measurement is critical in medical device molding. Careful assessment of parts produced by specialty molding is a strong indicator of success or failure.
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Implantable and Bioresorbable Materials in Injection Molding
Bioresorbables can transform medical devices, but only when safely integrated. Here’s what you need to know to incorporate them into your products.
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Fundamentals of Micromolding: Manufacturing Miniature Plastic Components
Micromolding is a specialized manufacturing process that produces extremely small thermoplastic components. See how it works and how to optimize the process.
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Additive Manufacturing Makes Complex, First-in-Industry Medical Devices Possible
Many next-generation medical devices are only possible with additive manufacturing (AM). See how AM works and the future technologies it empowers.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Costa Rica
Spectrum Plastics Group Costa Rica serves our Latin American customers for medical tubing as well as film and packaging.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Hermann
Spectrum Plastics Group Hermann, Missouri is an expert in the laser manufacturing of high-precision products.
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Critical components, technologies, and designs to consider for catheter delivery systems
The steerable catheter market is wide open for innovation as the variety of catheter-based procedures continues to grow.
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PEEK and Beyond
Spectrum conducts a study analyzing several high-performance materials to understand their mechanical properties and how they affect production and material costs.
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Micromolding
Spectrum invests in state of the art equipment at our Pittsfield, Massachusetts facility. Watch the video to learn more.
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Dilators and Sheaths
Spectrum manufactures custom and standard dilator and sheaths that support interventional therapies. Contact us today to start your project!
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Molded Components and Subassemblies
Spectrum can extrude, mold and assemble all under one roof, making us a single-source partner. Watch the video to learn more.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Pittsfield
Pittsfield, Massachusetts Virtual Tour: Operates as a precision injection molder and specializes in high performance plastic injection molding and custom tooling services.
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Glens Falls
Glens Falls virtual tour: Specializing in precision extrusion and catheter sub-assembly, and the manufacturing of acetal mandrel for catheter shafts.
 Watch this virtual tour of Spectrum Plastics Group's Tucson facility
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Tucson
Tucson specializes in design, development & manufacturing of highly-engineered catheters as well as silicone extrusions, molded components and assemblies.
Learn why a strong upfront engineering approach decreases time-to-market & capital costs
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Strong upfront engineering decreases time-to-market & capital costs
Spectrum Plastics Group explains why a strong upfront engineering approach decreases time-to-market & capital costs. Learn more.
A white paper on extrusion of acetal core mandrel at six sigma quality levels
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The Extrusion of Acetal Core Mandrel at Six Sigma Quality Levels
Spectrum Plastics combines multi-layer extrusion technology with six sigma methodologies to deliver the highest quality acetal core mandrel.
Watch this video to go on a virtual tour of our Jersey Shore facility!
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore is recognized for being a pioneer in the manufacture of custom microbore tubing, high pressure braided tubing, and catheter delivery systems.
An image representing catheter capabilities made possible with VECTOR+
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Medical Additive Manufacturing: Innovating catheter capabilities at the component level
Case study: Learn how Spectrum Plastics Group is innovating the process of bringing medical devices to market with additive manufacturing.
A white paper on the effect of crystallinity on PEEK performance in extrusions
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The Effect of Crystallinity on PEEK Performance in Extrusions
Spectrum performed a study to quantify the performance differences of the effect of crystallinity on PEEK extrusions. Get the results here.
Watch this video to go on a virtual tour of our facility in Reynosa, Mexico
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Facility Tour: Spectrum Plastics Group Reynosa
Spectrum Plastics Reynosa, Mexico supplies plastic components, sub-assemblies and finished devices to the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Watch this video to learn about our steerable and deflectable catheter capabilities
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Steerable and Deflectable Catheter Capabilities
Spectrum develops and manufacture standard and customized configurations of steerable catheter delivery systems to meet your device needs.
 Read this case study to learn how we launched a new approach to small vein reconnection
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Long-term partnership & process optimization
Learn how Spectrum successfully launched a totally new approach to small vein reconnection that has gained worldwide acceptance in this case study.
A white paper on the saga of non-DEHP PVC and medical devices
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Well Over Decades Later...The Saga of Non-DEHP PVC and Medical Devices
Spectrum discusses the evolution of DEHP and Non-DEHP PVC in Medical Devices from a regulatory perspective. Download the full white paper for free.
Watch this video to learn about our electronic integration for catheter assemblies
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Electronic Integration for Catheter Assemblies
Our catheter assembly expertise includes integration of miniature electronic components into catheter assemblies. Watch this video to learn more.
Watch this video to learn more about our film and packaging capabilities!
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Film and Packaging Capabilities
Watch this video to learn more about Spectrum Plastics Group, an extruder and converter of medical films for conventional and advanced medical packaging.
Download our free white paper to learn more about PEEK and Crystallinity
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Let's Talk about PEEK and Crystallinity
PEEK provides a higher strength material for medical applications. Learn about the role crystallinity plays in PEEK's performance.
Spectrum Plastic Group's catheter manufacturing process
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Catheter Manufacturing
Spectrum's catheter manufacturing and vertically integrated services allow us to offer customers a single source solution for concept to production.
Learn how an easy-open package became thing, faster and greener (at less cost)
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How an easy-open package becomes thinner, faster, greener at less cost
The whole package: how a new, easy-open package becomes thinner, faster, greener – at less cost – in this case study by Spectrum Plastics Group.
Watch this video to learn more about RF tipping capabilities
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RF Tipping Capabilities
Watch this video to learn how Spectrum specializes in RF thermoforming including tipping, flaring, and bonding of all thermoplastics from 1F to 32F.
Download our white paper on choosing the ideal ultra polymer
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Choosing Ultra Engineering Polymers for Extruded Medical Applications
Spectrum provides guidance for choosing and specifying high strength polymers for medical devices and extruded components. Download the full white paper here.
Learn how we helped launch a surgical device for knee reconstruction procedures
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Making next generation medical device manufacturing easy
Learn how Spectrum Plastics Group helped launch an innovative new surgical device for knee reconstruction procedures in this case study.
Watch this video to learn more about our overmolding and insert molding capabilities
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Insert molding and overmolding
Watch this video to learn about Spectrum's insert molding and overmolding molding capabilities for thermoplastic and silicone polymers.
Medical tubing created with PEEK extrusion
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PEEK and Medical Tubing: Here's What You Need to Know
PEEK is gaining use in medical applications as it provides a higher strength alternative to more common polymers.
A blood filtration system used for surgery and kidney dialysis purposes
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A takeover tool study – blood filtration systems for surgery
A takeover tool study. Learn how Spectrum Plastics Group manufactures blood filtration systems for surgery in this case study.
A video highlighting our full spectrum of specialty product offerings
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Your Trusted Full-service Partner
Watch our video highlighting these technology platforms and learn about our full spectrum of product offerings.
Colored tubing, representing engineer-to-engineer expertise for customer automation
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Leveraging engineer-to-engineer expertise for customer automation
Learn how Spectrum Plastics Group leverages engineer-to-engineer expertise for customer-based automation in this case study.
Take these key considerations into account when selecting an injection molder
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Key Considerations When Selecting a Medical Injection Molder
Spectrum Plastics Group identifies key considerations for selecting a medical injection molder. Download the full report for free.
Learn about the many exciting advantages of teaming up with our extrusion experts
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Team up with the extrusion experts
Watch this video to learn how Spectrum Plastics provides a full range of tubing solutions & technical capabilities, unique to the medical device industry.
An image of specialty medical tubing aiding in a breakthrough medical procedure
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A breakthrough medical procedure assisted by Spectrum Plastics Group
Learn how Spectrum Plastics Group extruded complex specialty tubing aiding in a breakthrough procedure that improves women's health in this case study.
A white paper on the science of multi-layer extruded tubing
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The Science of Multi-Layer Extruded Tubing
Spectrum Plastics discusses the multi-layer coextrusion process of dissimilar and similar polymers. Download the full white paper here.
Watch this video to learn about our in-house precision tooling
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In-house precision tool making
Watch this video to see how the in-house expertise of our mold designers lets us collaborate with our customers in every element of the product lifecycle.
A video about our ability to execute projects across the stage gate innovation process
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Not Just a Molding Component Manufacturer
Spectrum Plastics is a full-service medical device manufacturer with the ability & expertise to execute projects across the stage gate innovation process.
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