The client is a small company, a longtime customer of TPV Compound, that prints various components, primarily for the automotive sector.
Request
When the Covid-19 emergency broke out and their main target market came to a standstill, they called on TPV Compound, a long-standing partner, with a completely new idea: the need for urgent protective equipment for the health emergency, which was unavailable on the market, led the client to try to produce nose clips for surgical masks by adapting the mold used by a similar PVC compound product used in the automotive sector.
Proposed Solution
The client, starting this new project in an unfamiliar sector, relied on TPV Compound’s long-standing experience in the medical sector. Thanks to the immediate support of the technical and sales departments, a small modification to the customer’s mold was made and the selected medical compound was tested. Five days passed from the customer’s initial idea to the production of the first PVC nose clip for surgical masks. A development timeline that was unimaginable before. The client and the TPV Compound team will remember those five days for a long time.
Benefits and Future Developments
The client won the order for the nose clip for surgical masks for a major company. With the production and sale of this product, it covered the losses that would have resulted from the Covid-19 shutdown of its main market and established itself as a supplier to the medical sector, a sector in which until a year earlier it felt too small and inadequate.
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