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GW Plastics

239 Pleasant St.
Bethel, VT 05032
Tel: 802/234-9941
Fax: 802/234-9936

Web: http://www.gwplastics.com
E-mail: megan.bullard@gwplastics.com

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GW Plastics Meets Rising Demand for China-Based Clean Room Molding and Assembly Services	Precision Molder and Contract Manufacturer Announces Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) Executives	GW Plastics to Offer Liquid Silicones

Plastic Gear and Motion Transfer Solutions Now Available Worldwide Through GW Plastics / ABA-PGT Strategic Alliance	GW Plastics Triples Its China Plant Size

GW Plastics excels at precision molding intricate thermoplastic components from World-class facilities in North America (NAFTA region) and Asia. The more complex, the better. That's why so many leading companies in today's high-tech markets rely on GW Plastics throughout the world for their precision injection molded plastic components, assemblies, and Six Sigma Quality.

From new product development and prototyping through mold construction to close-tolerance plastic injection molding and component assembly, GW Plastics can assume single source responsibility for your company's most demanding product development challenges and global outsourcing needs.

ISO-9001:2000/TS-16949:2002 Registered

Capabilities

GW Plastics is a global, high precision injection molder that provides single source responsibility for molded plastic components and assemblies. Services include...

• Product design assistance

• Prototyping

• In House Mold Design and Construction

• Advanced Molding Technology including insert, multi-
shot, micro, thin-wall, and precision gear molding.

• Class 8 Clean Room Molding and Assembly

• Contract Manufacturing

• Liquid Silicone Rubber Molding (LSR)

Typical applications range from precision endoscopic surgical instruments, stapler devices, pharmaceutical drug delivery systems, blood diagnostic components and filtration components.

Strategically located global manufacturing facilities:

• Bethel, Vermont, USA

• Royalton, Vermont, USA

• Tucson, Arizona, USA

• San Antonio, Texas, USA

• Queretaro, Mexico

• Dongguan, China

We standardize equipment and procedures at all GW Plastics facilities to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. And we locate close to our customers to enhance communication and just-in-time delivery. All of our standardized facilities are designed for low cost manufacturing with automated material handling systems, quick mold change systems, and automated finished goods conveying with sprue or part removal robots on every machine.

Product Design Assistance

GW Plastics offers full-service engineering consultation and support from the earliest stages of conceptual product design.

Drawing on years of molding and problem-solving experience, we can often suggest design modifications to enhance moldability and optimize end-product appearance and performance.

GW engineers can also assist with material selection and prototyping, minimizing product development time and maximizing speed to market.

Six Sigma Quality Planning

GW believes in building quality into our products up front where it counts, not after the fact. To help accomplish this, we assign a Quality Engineer to work with a Tooling Engineer and other members of each program team throughout the entire planning, design, mold building and mold testing cycle.

During this period, specifications such as functional testing and gauging systems are developed. Dimensional requirements, aesthetic standards and characteristics which will be monitored using statistical process control techniques are also defined. Once the mold is built, we conduct a process capability study as well as a complete inspection layout to assure that specifications and requirements are on target.

Program Management

GW Plastics excels at producing top-quality molded parts in the shortest possible time at the lowest feasible cost, regardless of technical complexity. Our dedicated program management teams utilize the latest tracking tools to achieve key milestone dates. Exceptional program management competence is one of GW Plastics' key strengths and competitive advantages.

In-House Tooling

GW Plastics is one of the few injection molding companies to offer the significant benefits of in-house mold building on a global scale. Skilled GW mold makers at our world-class tooling facilities in the United States and China, specialize in the design, construction and repair of high-precision prototype and production molds.

In-House Mold Design

Molds are designed using a Unigraphics NX2/NX3, PRO/E 3.0 Wildfire and we can work with IGES/DXF/STEP and Parasolid formats.

Using the latest flow modeling software, GW engineers can predict material flow, part shrinkage, warpage and other important variables, ensuring the highest quality molded parts.

Technology Center

Molds bound for all six GW manufacturing sites go from the Mold making Division to the GW Plastics Technology Center next door. Molds are fine tuned, documented and statistically qualified at the Tech Center , which is also used to research and commercialize new technologies that add to GW's portfolio of core capabilities.

A full range of engineering services is available from the Mold making facility and Technology Center for customers wishing to transfer existing molds. As a result, GW can provide an unsurpassed level of responsiveness and security throughout the mold transfer process.

Clean Room Molding and Assembly

By utilizing Class 8 clean rooms, GW maintains one of the lowest scrap rates in the industry - between 2 and 3 units per million - and has been awarded ship-to-stock status by many companies. Additionally, by assigning a tooling engineer as project team leader, GW Plastics helps its medical customers modify design models in either the CAD or prototype stage, thereby enabling them to save money and improve product reliability before production starts.

What this adds up to is a company not only committed to adding value to its customers' products, but one that's constantly looking for ways to do things faster, more efficiently and with greater accuracy. GW Plastics designs and manufactures every medical product as though someone's life may depend on it - because it often does.

GW Plastics, Inc. adds new LSR division:

GW Silicones, a division of GW Plastics, Inc., was formed to meet the demand of our customers to supply high quality Liquid Injection Molding(LIM) or Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) flashless molded products along with our high quality thermoplastic components that GW Plastics is known for.

The ability to supply silicone and plastics from a single source of responsibility simplifies project management and allows GW Silicones to produce the most economical assembly possible regardless if the component is a single silicone component, a thermoplastic with a silicone overmold or a complex multi-material assembly using 2 shot or multi-shot silicone overmold technology.

Markets Served:

Healthcare

GW Silicones provides components to the Medical Device Industry for single use or reusable applications and is capable of contract assembly, testing and packaging as required by our customers.

Typical application may include: airways; balloon catheters; wound drainage, surgical instrument handles; infusion sleeves and test chambers; fluid management, ear plugs and hearing aids; shunts and septums; and a variety of silicone seals, stoppers, valves, and clips.

Automotive

GW Silicones is also a supplier to the automotive and consumer/industrial markets with a focus on automatic molding of liquid silicone and also the overmolding of silicone on thermoplastic components.

Typical automotive applications include: fuel and vapor sealing; electrical connectors; spark plug boots; as well as buttons and switches

Capabilities

GW Silicones is able to provide:

• Quick turn around, cost effective silicone prototypes from production representative tooling

• Product design assistance for silicone , silicone insert molding and multi-material LSR (Liquid Silicone Rubber) and thermoplastic applications

• Silicone clean room manufacturing and assembly

• Advanced process development using Scientific Molding Methods specifically developed for liquid silicone molding

• One source responsibility for silicone and thermoplastics

• World class project management accompanied with global footprint to support your program needs

• The latest in silicone molding and automation techniques

LSR Advantage

The Liquid Silicone Rubber Advantage

Since the 1960s, silicone rubber has found widespread use in medical, automotive, aerospace, electrical, construction, and industrial applications. Listed below are some of the properties that make silicone a material of choice: