medical
Silica-free Abrasive Compounds Offer Improved Health, Safety
Osborn has a line of silica-free abrasive compounds that offer both employee and environmental benefits.
Read MoreEngineered Coatings Offer Improvement for Medical Device Manufacturers
Diamond electroless nickel coating provides better lubricity and improved wear resistance for molds, resulting in better quality and productivity.
Read MoreFinishing High Reliability, Function Critical Parts
From safety critical automotive and aerospace components to lifesaving medical micro-components and implantable devices, Indiana-based Electro-Spec finishes applications that require zero failure rates.
Read MorePrecision Coating Receives ISO 14001 Certification
The company says its commitment to the environment and its health led it to seek this certification.
Read MoreCustom Plating Technology Enables Medical Devices
Finisher collaboration during product design delivers plating solutions for medical OEMs.
Read MoreElectroplating for Medical Devices
Brittany McKinney of Pavco Inc. discusses the benefits of electroplating for medical devices.
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MicroCare Appoints Commercial Sales Manager
MicroCare welcomes Kristin Rosas as its strategic account executive for its Precision and Medical Device Manufacturing Fluids divisions.
Read MoreCleaning, Pretreatment to Meet Medical Specs ISO 13485 or FDA 21 CFR820
Maximilian Kessler from SurTec explains new practices for industrial parts cleaning, metal pretreatment and decorative electroplating in the medical device industry.
Read MoreProper Testing of a Powder Coat Finish
Manufacturer shows how it performs extensive tests on powder coated medical carts.
Read MorePPG Earns R&D 100 Awards for Antimicrobial, Antiviral Paints
The award-winning coatings from PPG continuously kill viruses and bacteria, including the virus responsible for COVID-19.
Read MoreSolving Unmet Needs of the Medical Device Industry
Pioneer Metal Finishing's Medical Center of Excellence has expanded the company's capacity to serve the critical medical device industry. With ISO 13485 certification in hand, the company is now a key driver in medical innovations.
Read MoreThe Future of Virus Detection
High purity surfaces to enable spectroscopy-based diagnostic testing.
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Lincotek Acquires Danco Medical, Expands Into U.S.
Lincotek Medical and Danco Medical’s partnership is expected to address the needs of orthopedic customers around technical depth and process mastery.
Read MoreA Process for Alkaline Non-cyanide Silver Plating for Direct Plating on Copper, Copper Alloys and Nickel Without a Silver Strike Bath
Traditionally, silver is electroplated in toxic, cyanide-based chemistry. Due to cyanide’s extreme hazard to human health and environments, developing non-cyanide silver chemistry is essential for the silver electroplating industry. Discussed here is an aqueous, alkaline non-cyanide silver plating technology, which can be directly plated over nickel as well as copper and its alloys. The silver deposits have perfect white color and better anti-tarnishing properties than other non-cyanide silver processes. The silver is plated entirely from the dissolving silver anode and the bath is very stable, and maintains a stable pH level both during plating and idle time. This new non-cyanide silver technology will plate bright silver that is perfectly suitable for electronic, industrial and decorative applications. .
Read MoreManaging Stacked Tolerances with PTFE Lubricants
PTFE coatings allow surgical instruments to overcome static friction.
Read MoreAdvanced Solvent Technology for Medical Device Cleaning
An insider's look at new critical cleaning technologies being used in the manufacture of medical instruments.
Read MoreNavigating Medical Cleaning Regulations
Medical product cleaning and packaging solutions enable new regulations from the FDA and MDR to be met in a robust and reproducible manner.
Read MoreMicrocare Acquires Certol International
The acquisition will expand products and service within medical and dental markets.
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OSHA Issues Emergency COVID-19 Workplace Standard for Health Care Sector
OSHA issues new federal emergency COVID-19 workplace standard for health care sector, with guidance for general industry.
Read MoreToxins That Can Help Us
Over many years, well-regarded AESF/NASF contributor Jack Dini wrote a series of fascinating columns to Plating & Surface Finishing, under the title Fact or Fiction?. He hasn’t slowed down in 2021. Here, he notes that more research studies are revealing that a little bit of some toxins can be quite helpful to human health. The following shows a number of examples.
Read MoreExpanding Medical Coating Capabilities
One company’s approach to broadening its functional coatings offerings to further serve the medical sector.
Read MoreNanostructure of the Anodic and Nanomaterials Sol-Gel Based Materials Application: Advances in Surface Engineering
Porous alumina can be fabricated electrochemically through anodic oxidation of aluminum. This paper reviews sol-gel chemistry and applications, which also offers unusual nanoporous microstructures. The ability to control pore chemistry at different scales and geometries, provides excellent bioactivity, enabling the entrapment of biologically active molecules and their controllable release for therapeutic and medical applications.
Read MoreAutomation Smoothes the Way for Surgical Coatings
Medical device coating company discusses how automation enables increased abrasion resistance and improved insulative properties for electrosurgery.
Read MoreThe Road to Recovery
The past few issues of Products Finishing have touched on how different market sectors have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. As we come to the end of the year, PF editor-in-chief Scott Francis takes time to reflect on the manufacturing industry’s response during the COVID era and to contemplate finishing’s role in the medical sector.
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