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Rapid Injection Molding Helps Move Approval Process Forward at Cytori Therapeutics

From Proto Labs, Inc.

"We had been brainstorming designs and were looking for rapid prototyping options on the Internet when we ran across Protomold," says development engineer Bobby Byrnes.

"We needed to produce a cage-like component that would be lined with mesh to capture tissue.

We were expecting to find the usual additive prototyping processes like stereolitography and were a little surprised to find a prototyping option that would give us real injection molded parts, quickly and at an affordable price."

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