TPU Manufacturer Unveils New FacilityTPU Manufacturer Unveils New Facility

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Argotec has opened its new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Greenfield, MA.

Argotec Inc. (Greenfield, MA), a supplier of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) film and sheet to medical device manufacturers, has opened a new 95,000-sq-ft headquarters and manufacturing plant. The addition of the new facility increases the company's total operations to more than 150,000 sq ft.The added capacity will benefit the production not only of existing ArgoMed films for medical device and wound-care products customers but will also provide the company with flexibility to explore new markets and applications, says president and CEO Bruce Wilby. "It will create greater efficiencies throughout our entire production process, letting us focus more of our resources on research and development."The new plant houses two blown-film and nine flat-die extrusion lines. Seven of the flat-die lines are housed in an 8000-sq-ft hard-walled cleanroom, with each individual line enclosed in its own Class 10,000 soft-walled cleanroom environment. All seven extruders, along with the raw resin handling equipment, are positioned outside the cleanroom. Only the final heated polymer passes through the wall to the flat die and winding apparatus."Add to that our cleanroom operator certification program, the separate changing rooms and gowning requirements we've instituted, and the interlocking entrance and exit doors to guarantee no one enters the cleanroom until the first of the two doors is securely shut behind them, and the net result is an exceptionally clean product," Wilby remarks.