Moving our operations to Tennessee has given us many advantages and opportunities we did not have before. For example, the Custom Fab division of Component Supply has been making custom needles for our customers for years but with our new facility came some exciting changes. First, we have increased our production capacity by over 400%. This not only allows us to supply larger quantities more competitively but also to reduce lead time, even the small prototype requests. We also built a space dedicated to needle production that has conditioned air filtered through a HEPA-filter and is slightly pressurized to keep dust and airborne particulates out. This allows us to maintain a clean glue bed for the needles. Adhesive specialists have come to help us determine the best adhesives to use and we’ve built some proprietary equipment that has increased the quality and efficiency of processing our custom dispensing needles. We are conducting pull tests at three times what our customers are requesting for stainless steel and five times what is requested for PTFE.
Because of the large volume of requests for our custom needles, we prioritized the expansion of our operation, not only in the capacity to produce larger quantities more efficiently but also in our capabilities for bends, needles with stops, PTFE needles, thin and extra thin wall and custom tip options. In 2018, we plan to release images of some of the work we’ve been doing for our customers in the world of custom needles, so please keep checking back for more updates of our needles.
The mission of Component Supply is to be a resource for researchers and product designers by connecting them with the components and knowledge they need to change the world.
