PRINTING THE HEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAIN
3D printing is helping the healthcare industry respond faster and smarter by making essential tools and devices locally, on demand and to individual patient needs.
Instead of waiting on distant suppliers, hospitals can now print what they need – surgical tools, anatomical models, even prosthetics – right where care is delivered. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this meant 3D-printed masks and ventilator parts filled urgent gaps when global supply chains stumbled.
Formlabs plays a key role by offering medical-grade 3D printing kits like the Form 4B and 4BL. Its printers let hospitals produce sterilised, biocompatible items quickly, using more than 25 specialised resins cleared by the FDA. supplychaindigital. com 23