MedPlast (Tempe, Arizona), a specialty manufacturer, reported that it is entering the medical device market.

Baird Capital Partners (Chicago) formed MedPlast last year through the acquisitions of Applied Technical Products' (Wayne, Pennsylvania) Engineered Rubber and Plastics Group and K&W Medical Specialties (Westfield, Pennsylvania) (Medical Device Daily, April 22, 2008).

MedPlast says it is ideally suited to servicing the medical device and specialty hospital products markets. The company offers a range of services from product development services and mold manufacturing to specialty rubbers and silicone formulation as well as molding to multi-material, over molded and insert molding of thermoplastic materials and assemblies.

MedPlast has five manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and says it provides certified clean room manufacturing and assembly in FDA registered, ISO-13485 compliant environments.

The company operates on a Six Sigma lean manufacturing philosophy, with certified "black belt" and "green belt" teams empowered to drive maximum quality, productivity and safety in the workplace, according to MedPlast.

"We are pleased to be in a position to offer our innovative product solutions for manufacturing complex custom components to the medical and healthcare industries," said MedPlast CEO Harold Faig. "We will continue to tackle the tough projects that other manufacturers are unable to handle. No program is too big or too small for our team of professionals. We will continue to strive for excellence and complete customer satisfaction."

MedPlast said its areas of expertise include: multiple shot molding, over molding and insert molding; custom rubber and silicone compound development; in-house prototyping and multi-cavity production mold builds; silicone and elastomeric molding; and thermoplastic injection molding.

John Madden, director of sales for MedPlast, told Medical Device Daily that although MedPlast is a relatively new company, the medical industry is not exactly new territory.

"We're injection molders, we're rubber molders, we do silicone, we do assembly ... a significant amount of our work is medical already," Madden said.