Business View Oceania | Volume 4, Issue 3

71 72 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 developing environments moving forward.” ESP Medical fosters core values that include efficiency, quality, innovation, and fairness. Staff work as a team, maintaining consistent communication that creates an environment where new concepts and ideas are heard and appreciated. Shifting into the medical industry as an emergency care supplier in such a short period of time was no easy feat, however. The team was able to manage the move thanks to their ability access facilities, experience, and networking opportunities through ES Plastics. “Being backed by ES Plastics has really been key to our development. Being able to start with such a strong manufacturing base, on- site tooling, capable designers, engineers, and warehousing… Everything we need to provide a service from concept to post-production support has been made available to us from the very beginning,” Miss Sharp says. “There is a significant difference between the medical industry we supply and the sectors that ES Plastics has traditionally served, especially when it comes to regulatory and quality control systems. Due to the volatile nature of the pandemic, we manufactured our RESPO2NSE ventilator very, very quickly- we had a prototype within two weeks- but then we had to wrap our head around the fact that regulatory processes for products such as our medical device can really take anywhere from 12 to 24 months. So we were able to take a lot of experience from the three decades that ES Plastics has within their industry, but there were certainly some new challenges and experiences that we had to address and adapt to.” Alongside ES Plastics, ESP Medical would like to thank suppliers Palmer Design and United Machinists, sister company Milktech NZ, and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) for their contributions to ESP Medical’s success over the last two years. Miss Sharp concludes, “Palmer Design has rapidly 3D printed a lot of prototypes ESP MEDI CAL Business Manager Hillary Sharp Managing Director, Jeff Sharp