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- Carclo Technical Plastics UK

Carclo Technical Plastics, www.carclo-ctp.co.uk, is a subcontract manufacturer and a subsidiary of Carclo plc, www.carclo-plc.com, a UK-quoted group with annual sales of approximately £80m. The Technical Plastics division has annual sales of approximately £60m and operates on a global basis in the USA, UK, Czech Republic, India and mainland China.

Some 60% of Carclo Technical Plastics’ business is dedicated to supplying the healthcare industry, namely the medical, pharmaceutical, diagnostics and eyecare fields. Typical products include drug delivery devices, surgical and diagnostic disposables. A strong focus of its business is in the production of disposable plastic products for use in In-Vitro diagnostics applications from the laboratory to the point of care. Typical examples include pipette tips, cuvettes, pregnancy test cartridges, test cassettes and reagent packs which are produced on a sub-contract basis for Carclo’s customers who range from blue-chip multi-national corporations to start-up businesses.
A further area of specialisation is in manufacture of drug delivery devices such as inhalers.

All facilities within Carclo Technical Plastics are accredited to ISO9000 and EN13485. Carclo employs robust Design for Manufacture, Risk analysis and process validation throughout the product development, scale-up and commercial production phases.

Carclo’s optical design team is a differentiating feature of its offering and plays a key part in a typical programme. The company has a team of optical engineers dedicated to designing optical systems such as cuvettes, lenses and light pipes specifically to be moulded in plastic using the very latest optical software tools and advanced computer analysis.
Moulding cell at Carclo Technical Plastics’ facility in Mitcham, S.London, UK

Carclo also differentiates itself from its competitors via its

Gear technologyInkjet coating technologySoluble polymer developmentsWet chemistry laboratory for handling a variety of mediaInsert moulding, in-mould decoration and two-shot moulding which complement its precision injection moulding capabilities

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