Multi-million euro investment Servomold enhances facilities for medical moulding solutions

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Servomold is strengthening its focus on medical technology with a multi-million euro site expansion, adding state-of-the-art production and quality assurance facilities, including a high-precision 5-axis milling machine and advanced measuring systems.

With a growing emphasis on the medical technology sector, Servomold has made a significant investment of nearly €5 million to expand its site. To this end, the company has invested almost 5 million euros in the local expansion of its site, which was only completed in 2018, to a total of 1,650 m², 750 m² of which is production space. The associated measures, which were implemented within 6 months, included the installation of a fully air-conditioned production cell and the acquisition of a high-precision 5-axis milling machine for the production of components with accuracies in the µm range. Servomold has expanded quality assurance by integrating a separately air-conditioned measuring room with state-of-the-art measuring and testing technology. The company currently employs 35 highly qualified employees in development, production and administration, 10 more than at the beginning of 2024.

The current order situation at Servomold confirms the course that has been set. At the turn of the year 2024/25, the share of the medical technology application area was already reaching 60 percent, with an upward trend. The remaining 40 percent is mainly divided between pharmaceutical, packaging and fluid technology and, to a lesser extent, automotive technology and miscellaneous industries. The space now available for production and quality assurance, as well as purchasing and warehousing, provides the perfect conditions for solving customer-specific tasks and manufacturing standard products.

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Managing Director Thomas Meister refers to the market success of the SLY servo-electric core pullers launched at Fakuma 2024 as the basis for this bold step. Thanks to their high production accuracy, they are able to position slides and cores in the injection mould with µm precision and significantly simplify the production effort for mould making. Their servo-electric drive and minimum quantity lubrication of the guides and spindles are specifically designed to be used in clean rooms. Both are fundamental requirements for manufacturers of sleeve-shaped components such as housings and cartridge holders for auto-injection systems. The full savings potential of these new units can be realised when the entire mould concept is designed accordingly — Servomold offers comprehensive conceptual support for this.

Ypsomed was one of the first manufacturers in the industry to recognise the potential of this concept and contributed its expertise to the project at an early stage. Meister comments: “The medical technology manufacturer produces injectors in quantities of several hundred million and uses a correspondingly large number of moulds for this. The agreement to work closely together beyond the development phase, and the prospect of equipping these moulds with our core pulling units, was the driving force behind our decision to expand and invest to this extent.” Thanks to these measures to increase vertical integration, Servomold is now able to manufacture its high-precision core pulling units entirely in-house. This enables the company to guarantee expected productivity and at the same time — system for system — the high precision as the overall responsible party. Meister continues: “By the end of 2025, we will be able to deliver more than 1,000 ready-to-install units per year.”

Over the past two years, Servomold has emphasised its expertise with a number of successful developments. In addition to the SLY core pulling units, these include the SLA servo linear actuators, which are also suitable for cleanrooms, and the compact servo screw actuators of the SSA series, which move slides, cores or plates in injection moulds powerfully and at high speed.

Meister: “With our products, we fulfil the high demands of our customers in medical technology and other demanding industries. State-of-the-art machinery and our excellently trained and highly motivated employees are the best prerequisites for continuing to play a leading role in the automation of injection moulds in the future.”

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