Nick Lewis,
Sales & Marketing North America,
z-microsystems®
Nick Lewis received his BSc in Chemistry & Polymers from University of Manchester, UK. Worked in the plastics molding industry for over 25 years at resin suppliers, injection molding machinery suppliers, blow mold-makers and more recently injection mold-makers and automation suppliers. Represents z-microsystems in North America located in Toronto. Lived and worked in several European countries and now resident of Canada.
Injection Moulding Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Structures
Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 11:30
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A unique collaboration for rapid prototyping injection molded microfluidic devices.
z-microsystems is located in Austria and Canada specializing in micro-injection moldmaking and injection molding of microfluidic devices with over 15 years experience in the industry. Their unique core competence is how to help design a microfluidic device that is injection moldable, prototype it, manufacture the micro-injection molds in-house, transition into a pre-production/pilot phase before taking the process into full mass production under stringent clean room conditions. Following several years of study and establishing a strong relationship with the University of Toronto, they identified the need to replace PDMS chip manufacture with a faster, better quality, more repeatable and cost effective method, to rapid prototype new microfluidic device designs. Collaborating with the university, z-microsystems Canadian office was eligible for federal funding and started a unique development project in November 2015. The development combines the universities know-how in their Centre for Microfluidics Systems with z-microsystems injection molding experience, to deliver a viable and value-added alternative to rapid prototype new microfluidic devices.
One year on since we presented this at Ontario on a Chip 2016, z-microsystems and U of T have further results & samples to present at this years conference. A commercial program is being developed enabling university and industry labs to use injection molding as a process from rapid prototyping thru to mass production for microfluidic devices.
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