In response to its growing Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) healthcare manufacturing business, advanced contract manufacturing and injection moulding company GW Plastics has announced another expansion of its affiliate, GW Silicones. This additional expansion will create space for multiple new programmes the company is launching to support its steadily increasing healthcare business.
The expansion includes an additional 3,000 sqft of ISO Class 8 cleanroom space capable of housing up to 8-10 new injection moulding machines.
GW Plastics plans to invest about $2 million in construction, new technology, and equipment. This is the fourth expansion of GW Silicones since its inception in 2008, and comes on the heels of a just-completed 30,000 sqft expansion of GW Plastics’ Royalton, VT Manufacturing and Technology Center earlier this year.
GW Plastics first established its silicone manufacturing footprint with just one moulding machine in its Process Development Center in Royalton. Now with a dedicated, state-of-the-art operation offering highly-automated ISO Class 8 cleanroom tooling, moulding, and assembly, GW Silicones is continuing to grow at a rapid rate.
With this new expansion, GW Silicones will operate from a 12,000 sqft Class 8 ISO 9001 and ISO 13485-certified cleanroom.
With the latest LSR expansion, the Manufacturing and Technology Center will cover 100,700 sqft of advanced manufacturing space.
