Company’s rotary screen printers are producing millions of COVID-19 rapid tests.
David Savastano, Editor12.02.20
The ability to print sensors has many benefits, including lower cost and faster production output. In particular, screenprinting is prominently used, with one major example being glucose test strips for diabetes patients.
Now, as the world battles COVID-19, pharmaceutical companies around the world are looking to meet the need for millions of test strips.
SPGPrints B.V. is among the printing equipment specialists who have adapted its experience in rotary screen printing for biosensors to working on COVID-19 cures.
Due to the close collaboration between SPGPrints and its client, millions of test strips are expected to be produced in the upcoming months.
Hank Guitjens, commercial manager label & industrial printing for SPGPrints B.V., noted that SPGPrints started to supply its rotary screen solutions to pharmaceutical companies in the biosensor industry about 10 years ago, and these are being successfully used to produce
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