GW Plastics: About Us

GW Plastics is recognized as a world leader and innovator in precision injection molding, tooling and contract manufacturing serving market leading companies across the globe.

Broad-based expertise, full-service capabilities and a track record for solving complex challenges set GW apart in a highly competitive marketplace. Market leading companies across the globe trust GW Plastics as their supplier of choice. With exceptional dedication to quality, intellectual property protection and the and the commitment to stay at the forefront of advancing technology, we deliver…from concept to market.

The healthcare market demands a dynamic product development partner. With our global capabilities and over 50 years of expertise, GW Plastics is the logical single-source partner supplier to the world’s most successful healthcare companies.

Capabilities Include:

• Product Development
• Contract Manufacturing
• Regulatory Submissions
• Clinical Trial Builds
• IQ/OQ/PQ Validation Protocol
• Class 8 Clean Room Molding and Assembly
• FDA Registered
• ISO 13485 certified facilities
• Contract Sterilization

GW Plastics is your single-source supplier; from concept to market. 

GW/PD™  - GW Product Development

GW Plastics recognizes that many companies have limited resources and budget constraints for developing new products. Additionally, some have limited plastics injections molding & tooling experience. This is where GW/PD™ can fill the gap.

GW Product Development Capabilities

• Concept development
• Industrial design
• Product design and development
• Design history file
• DFM (design for manufacturing)
• Design verification and validation
• Rigorous IP protection standards

GW Plastics has always excelled at Design for Manufacturability (DFM) support. We are a strong believer that early supplier involvement is critical to successful new product introductions. The goal of GW/PD™ (Product Development) is to reduce customer product cost and time-to-market.

GW/PT™  - GW Precision Tooling

Building precision tooling requires advanced technological capabilities, a zero defect culture, and the highest levels of design integrity.

GW Plastics internal mold design-and-build capabilities ensure that customer applications will perform as designed not only at launch, but consistently throughout the life of the program.

With the state-of-the-art tool building capabilities in both our North American and China operations, maximum efficiency and quality is achieved by using highly standardized design practices, highly automated work cells, and global cross-training.

GW Plastics is one of the few injection molding companies to offer the significant benefits of in-house mold building on a global scale, featuring:

• Zero-defect tool DFM philosophy
• Quick turn-around prototype support
• Single cavity bridge tooling for production launch
• High cavitation tooling for volume production
• Conventional and hot runner systems
• Cavity pressure transducer technology

GW/SM™ - GW Scientific Molding

GW Plastics has taken injection molding to a higher level. GW/SM™ (Scientific Molding) guarantees that we proactively eliminate defects at the earliest possible stage and ensures the highest integrity of product; consistently over the life of the project, regardless of molding machine or manufacturing location.

Why GW/SM™ (Scientific Molding)?

• GW/SM™ techniques ensure high quality, repeatable production
• Consistently mold quality parts despite variation in molding materials and processing equipment
• Includes rigorous statistical qualifications
• Development of robust processes regardless of manufacturing location
• Can be used on all molds (new and transfer)
• Mold-specific process development (rather than machine-specific)
• Improved time-to-market and component quality

GW/CM™ - GW Contract Manufacturing

The world’s market leading companies turn to GW Plastics as a natural extension to their own production capabilities. In addition to our precision molding and tooling expertise, we provide turnkey manufacturing support with a lean manufacturing perspective. We support a full range of secondary processes including assembly, test, decoration, packaging, and contract sterilization.

GW/CM™

• Clean room assembly
  • Precision mechanical assembly
  • Ultrasonic and plasma Cleaning
  • Solvent & UV bonding
  • Thermal welding
  • Ultrasonic welding
  • Ultrasonic staking and insert placement
  • Vision inspection
  • Laser marking
  • Pad printing
• Product Testing
• Product packaging and contract sterilization
• Material management control
• Shipping and logistics support

GW/GR™ - GW Global Reach

With six world-class manufacturing locations located in the United States, Mexico and China; GW Plastics offers an efficient and consistent global supply chain infrastructure.

Our environmentally controlled and highly standardized facilities are designed to operate interchangeably, and by maintaining locations across the globe, GW Plastics is never far from your customers.

Registrations:

• ISO 9001:2008
• ISO 13485:2003
• TS 16949
• FDA Registered Device Manufacturer