Microfluidics
Enhance fluid control with Enplas’s scalable plastic microfluidics.
High-Performance Plastic Microfluidic Chips Developed And Mass Produced For Your Applications.
Enplas is a leading provider of custom injection-molded microfluidic chips with an array of precision features such as intricate channel patterns, pillars, and valves. We offer comprehensive services from development, performance evaluation, injection molding to automated assembly, including bonding and laminating.
We’re one of the few companies able to offer precision plastic microfluidics in high volumes with consistent quality. Looking to maintain a channel depth variation of ± 1um or less for over a million pieces annually? Enplas can do that.
Enplas knows that microfluidics development is a long process. That’s why we listen to your needs and collaborate with you to find the best solutions, no matter how long it takes. At every stage of your project, trust Enplas—your one-stop microfluidics manufacturing partner.
Precision Microfluidics Mass Production | Plastic Microfluidics Optimization and Engineering
Microfluidic Services
Enplas has more than a decade of plastic microfluidics experience. With Enplas, you can have all your microfluidic development and manufacturing needs met in one place:
- Design development/FMEA/DFM
- In-house mold making
- Microfluidics functional evaluation
- ISO class 6 cleanroom Injection molding for prototyping and mass production
- Assembly (including non-microfluidics auxiliary parts such as cartridges and elastomer fluid seals)
Rapid Prototyping for Microfluidic Devices
When transferring microfluidic designs to plastics, small DFM modifications can compromise fluidic performance. Building prototype tools based on simulations only could miss such effects, requiring costly and time-consuming tool adjustments. To avoid this pitfall, use Enplas’s rapid microfluidics prototyping service to evaluate your chip’s critical features in real life. Enplas creates single function chips in as little as two weeks to ensure those critical features generate the required performance on your plastic design. Reduce cost and development time by building the right prototyping mold on your first try.
Microfluidic Material Selection
Which material is right for your plastic microfluidic device? Enplas offers consultation on material selection considering the biocompatibility, manufacturability, and more for your microfluidics device.
Microfluidics Mass Production and Quality Assurance
Enplas ensures consistent, top-quality microfluidics products for its clients—even when production increases to millions of pieces per year.
Unlike many providers, Enplas can build production lines customized to meet your unique microfluidics device needs. Coupled with 100% automated inspections and fluidic performance evaluations of the physical product, we build on a decade of quality control experience to deliver the products you expect.
Microfluidic Solutions
Enplas provides custom optimization solutions that enhance your microfluidic device performance, minimize equipment requirements, and remove mass production transition roadblocks. We utilize the latest developments in plastics technologies to innovate your products.
Whether you’re looking for functional enhancements or manufacturing solutions, Enplas helps you achieve your microfluidic device’s performance goals with:
- Accurate fluid control with simpler, smaller instruments
- Channel shape optimization to achieve specific microfluidic performance
- Microfluidics bonding to various materials
- Reliable, no-sagging lamination over larger on-chip reaction chambers
- Autofluorescence mitigation
- Design transfer to plastic microfluidics and mass production
The Rotary Membrane Valve & Pump (RMVP) System
Is automating on-chip fluid control such as moving, mixing, metering, magnet handling, and heat cycling causing your microfluidics instrument to become bulky, complex and costly? Why not use a simpler, more integrated platform?
Enplas’s Rotary Membrane Valve & Pump System is a combination of a simple control device and a customized microfluidic chip with channels and reservoirs to automate on-chip reactions and detections.
Microfluidic Device Components
Cartridges | Cartridge Holders | Elastomer Seals & Gaskets | Manifolds | Connectors | Fitments | And More
Enplas develops, prototypes, injection molds, and assembles various plastic components used in today’s high-performing microfluidic devices. Together with our microfluidic chip mass production services, Enplas is the single-source provider for all your microfluidic device manufacturing needs.
Microfluidics Applications
Enplas manufactures high-performance plastic microfluidic parts for today’s leading applications:
Clinical Assays and Diagnostics | Life Science Research | NGS/PCR (including dPCR) | Gene Expression Analysis | Proteomic Analysis | Cellular Diagnostics | In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD): Cellular, Molecular, and Immunological | Organ-on-a-Chip | Lab-on-a-Chip | Point-of-Care Tests | And More
