Plastic Industry Award 2012

The Plastics Industry Awards reward excellence in materials usage, design and manufacturing as well as training and environmental performance. The birthing baby was highly commended within the Industrial Product Design category, but narrowly lost out to the F-Board - a 100% recycled PVC scaffolding board. The birthing baby is an obstetric training manikin, designed to improve the training of doctors, midwives and nurses to prevent adverse outcomes in childbirth. The head, body and limbs are made from RTV Silicone rubber, ABS and water blown polyurethane foam. It includes several realistic, key anatomical features. The head is suitable to practice forceps and suction deliveries and the arms, legs and head articulate realistically. The flexibility, hardness, density and weight distribution of the skin, limbs and joints closely replicate those of a real baby.

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