Individual Medical Device-Technologies to Manufacture Customer Specific Devices & Packaging

Harald Grün

 Balda Medical GmbH & Co. KG
Bergkirchener Str. 228, DE-32549 Bad Oyenhausen, Germany
Tel: +49 5734 513 2021   Fax: +49 5734 513 2111
Email: hgruen@balda-medical.de

Biography

Harald Gruen holds a Master degree in Business Economics from the Private University of Business Economics from Zurich and a Master degree in Plastic Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences from Darmstadt.

After working as a Vice President Medical Devices and member of the Management Team for a company based in Switzerland, he joined Balda Medical GmbH & Co. KG in April 2005 and is currently Director Sales & Marketing, responsible for the Strategic Development, Acquisition of new projects and all Marketing Activities.

Company Profile

Balda Medical is one of the leading OEM-manufactures for the development and production of medical devices, drug deliveries systems, packing and disposables/consumables, including concept studies, engineering, tool manufacturing, production of single plastic parts by injection moulding (cleanroom), surface decoration, manual or automatic assembly of complete devices and systems incl. qualification and validation.

Typical products are lancing devices for diabetes care, glucose meters, dry powder inhalers, pens, packaging and diagnostic consumables.

Abstract

The importance of the design of packaging and devices has risen considerably in recent years. One reason for that is the fact that patients become more and more customers and decide themselves which device or product they will buy.

The healthcare industry invests into design studies and technologies to develop attractive packaging and devices.

To create attractive designs there are different ways. Major criteria are the general design, the geometric form and the colour of the packaging or of the device.
 
One way to decorate devices is the use of plastic materials with colour pigments to create colour effects, which have a major impact on the visual appearance of the packaging or of the device. Another way is the use of the 2K moulding technology. By this technology it is possible to create surfaces which have e.g. a “soft touch” effect on the outside instead of a smooth surface on the inside.

In the future we will see more designed and engineered packaging and devices in the healthcare industry because the patient will have a major impact on the purchasing process of Devices.