Small components play a large role in medical equipment

Highly demanded medical components

European Springs & Pressings in the UK is one of the Lesjöfors companies with customers in the medical industry. Their medical range includes springs that go into the mouthpieces for ventilators, catheter clips to syringe drivers, patient beds and trolley systems, instrumentation and numerous electrical components for medical technologies including defibrillators. ESP manufacture the largest range of springs and pressings in the UK and have some of the most advanced high-volume machinery available. At peak, the machines can manufacture 5 million springs an hour and specific production lines have been repurposed and upscaled to manage orders.

Stuart McSheehy, Managing Director comments on the situation: “We have developed tooling and manufactured medical components for the healthcare sector for decades but today’s climate and subsequent increase in demand has highlighted the market share with which we and our customers operate in. Normally validation as a new supplier takes months of trials before volume production but in this very abnormal period we’ve been fast-tracking processes to suit our customers and are beyond proud to be able to play a supportive role in today’s climate.”

Other medical spring solutions

Below is a selection of other spring solutions for the medical industry signed Lesjöfors:

• Medical springs for implants and applications like pacemakers
• Improved needle protection for a catheter
• Customized wire form for garment lifting
•  Springs in healthcare monitoring equipment that sends data from patients’ home

Cleanliness and hygiene

Our companies that supply components for the healthcare technology and medicine industries meet the highest demands of cleanliness in products and manufacturing environment. Since Lesjöfors has sales and production facilities in many countries worldwide, we can assure deliveries.