Deep-drawn standard components for dental implant packaging
STÜKEN’s cost‑effective deep‑drawing impressed: efficient titanium forming, a jointly developed modular solution, cleanroom packaging options, and ISO 13485‑certified production led the customer to switch from machined parts to deep‑drawn parts.
A European pilot customer previously manufactured packaging for their dental implants in-house – as machined parts. Machining processes use significantly more material than deep drawing. This leads to substantial costs, especially with a material such as titanium. Additionally, the costly machines intended for producing the actual product were unnecessarily tied up in packaging production.
Another challenge: every person and tooth is unique, necessitating a wide range of implant lengths and diameters, and thus various packaging sizes.
The third challenge was the material itself. Dental implants are made from titanium due to its high biocompatibility. For regulatory reasons, our customer also chose titanium for the packaging to ensure no foreign material comes into contact with the implant. However, cold forming titanium is known to be difficult. Forming the material across multiple stages and creating complex geometries was economically unfeasible due to extreme tool stress.
As a result of intensive research and development, STÜKEN MEDICAL...
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