Product Development
Trelleborg, Fort Wayne, IN, has launched a new service to help healthcare and medical customers expedite their new product development process. This new offering is designed to help minimize production costs, quicken development time, and ensure superior-quality products. The company engineers novel extrusion solutions to meet specific tube and hosing applications. Examples include multilumen, silicone foam extrusions, and kink-resistant tubing for a variety of critical applications such as pacemaker and neuromodulation leads and urological implants. The company’s GeoTrans technology enables the production of extrusion profiles that can change throughout the length of the extrusion. MD&M West, Booth 2601
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Biocompatible Adhesives
EpoxySet Inc., Woonsocket, RI, offers a line of adhesives, sealing, and encapsulating and coating materials certified for biocompatibility. This broad line of epoxies and urethanes are approved to ISO-10993-5 and USP Class VI. These are used extensively in the manufacture of medical devices. Most of these systems can withstand sterilization techniques such as autoclave, gamma radiation, and EO sterilization. This line includes products that can withstand 300 °C or be temperature cycled down to 4 °K. Many biocompatible materials are optically clear and exhibit very high bond strength for structural requirements. MD&M West, Booth 645
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Dry Lubricant
MicroCare Medical, New Britain, CT, offers a dry lubricant that has been specifically engineered to improve the performance of medical devices. Used on a variety of applications including catheters, cutting tools, surgical staplers, and hypo tubes, Duraglide™ dry lubricant assists in reducing stiction (the combination of sticking and friction). Made with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), it lowers surface-to-surface friction resulting in easier and more consistent movement of actuation-based surgical and medical procedural equipment. It enhances the operation of devices by reducing friction on moving parts that slide, pivot, or twist. MD&M West, Booth 8073
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Touchless Switch
A touchless switch is available from Schurter Inc., Santa Rosa, CA. The TTS touchless switch helps address the need to minimize contact. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly raised the consciousness of the dangers of spreading pathogens, particularly as it relates to man and machine interface.
This phenomenon gives rise to increased demand for touchless activation of equipment and appliances used in public access areas, which has consequently created demand for noncontact switches to replace conventional touch switching technologies. MD&M West, Booth 644
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Precision Components
A line of high-precision technical components and micro-miniature tools is available from Small Precision Tools (SPT), Petaluma, CA. The company’s expertise includes injection molded advanced ceramics and microminiature parts that have complex shapes, structures, and details. Features include near-net forming, high strength and hardness, and durability. Parts are biocompatible, chemically inert, and thermally stable. MD&M West, Booth 3191
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Mechanical Cable Assemblies
Stainless steel mechanical cable assemblies produced by Carl Stahl Sava Industries, Riverdale, NJ, facilitate movement of prosthetic limbs. The company recently partnered with Unlimited Tomorrow to create a totally autonomous prosthetic arm that provides wearers total control over the device’s robotic hand. The cables behave as tendons, giving the hand natural and realistic human-like movement, while providing powerful grip capabilities as well. The mechanical cables that facilitate TrueLimb’s movement comprise 7×49, stainless steel wire rope, that is 0.032 in. in diameter and coated with nylon to a diameter of 0.037 in. MD&M West, Booth 2959
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Media Isolation Valves
Media isolation valves from Clippard, Cincinnati, OH, are solenoid-operated devices that use a flexible diaphragm to isolate the actuation mechanism from the fluid path. Media isolation valves are commonly used for a wide variety of applications, including those that require precise, repeatable dispensing of media. All wetted areas of the valve are PTFE, making this series ideal for use with corrosive media. A one-piece valve stem functions as a sealing membrane while also supporting and centralizing the poppet in the seating area. The multi-functional poppet/diaphragm/stem results in a simplified design with fewer parts, longer life and zero dead volume. MD&M West, Booth 2342
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Micro-Miniature Load Cell
A micro-miniature load cell from FUTEK, Irvine, CA, measures 4 × 5 mm. The QLA414 NANO force sensor is ideal for robotic surgery applications, where force sensor size is critical. The NANO features M1 threaded doublesided mounting provisions and unique thru-hole design allowing for flexible slide on, weld-on over the tube, wire, or shaft integration options. Nano sensors multi-element, side-load-compensated 1000 full-bridge instrumentation is encased with laser-welded construction with nonactive interconnect packaging. It allows for high accuracy in 5- and 10-lb capacities with ultra-low deflection and high natural frequency response up to 98 KHz. MD&M West, Booth 1943
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Cobots
ABB, Zurich, Switzerland, has expanded is collaborative robot (cobot) portfolio. The new GoFa™ and SWIFTI™ cobot families offer higher payloads and speeds. These stronger, faster and more capable cobots are designed to expand the company’s high-growth segments including healthcare. GoFa and SWIFTI are intuitively designed so that customers need not rely on in-house programming specialists. They assist workers with tasks including material handling, machine tending, component assembly, and packaging. MD&M West, Booth 4311
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Variable Dispense Pumps
Fluid Metering Inc., Syosset, NY, has introduced a series of variable dispense pumps. The compact, low-profile FVD series are designed to simplify fluidic architecture. The series combines priming or washing and a precise dispensing pump in a complete package. The patented CeramPump® design utilizes a single, dimensionally stable and chemically inert ceramic “valveless” piston liner set for precise fluid control. This series provides the ability to have a higher flow rate for priming the line and automatically adjusts to a small dispense volume ranging from liters to milliliters to microliters to accommodate the desired dispense or flows for any application. MD&M West, Booth 2383
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Biocompatible 3D Printing Material
Advanced Laser Materials (ALM), Temple, TX, has received certification of biocompatibility for its PA 650 material. The nylon-based material achieved ISO 10993 certification that officially approves its use in applications that come into contact with human skin, including surgical cutting guides, splints, orthotics, gripper trays, and more. The material is now available for powder-bed, roller-based systems. The certification process entails specific tests that measure reactivity, cytotoxicity, and sensitivity of the material. The pass/fail process involves exposing test subjects to the PA 650 to ensure that no negative reactions occur. MD&M West, Booth 3315
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PVC-Free Plastic Components
Raumedic, Mills River, NC, has developed a range of components made from alternative materials without plasticizers that can be used in transfusions, for pump applications, or in gravity kits for parenteral infusion systems, for example. For medical and pharmaceutical tubing, the company offers polypropylene and polyurethane, both of which are drug tolerable, although their use must be considered on a case-by-case basis before the products are developed. When a more cost-efficient alternative to soft PP and PUR is needed, a newly developed two-layer tubing made from EVA and styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) could be an alternative to PVC. MD&M West, Booth 3058
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Braid Wire Accelerator Program
Ulbrich, North Haven, CT, has launched a program to address the need for rapid development cycles. The Ulbrich Braid Wire Accelerator™ Program provides fast and precise timelines and specific design performance characteristics. Once an order is placed, a set of bobbins is shipped directly from the manufacturing facility within 24 hours. Alloys currently offered are stainless steels, nitinol, L605, MP35N, tungsten, and copper beryllium. The company plans to add new materials in the future. Wire manufacturing capabilities can reach as small as 0.0005 in. in diameter and include tight dimensional and mechanical property control. MD&M West, Booth 1733
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Fluidic Pressure Controller
A time-pressure controller from Bürkert, Huntersville, NC, has been developed for precision dosing of microliter volumes for medical and pharmaceutical applications. The Type 8763 achieves high precision control of low flow from approximately 1.2 ml/min and a response time in milliseconds. The closed-loop controller ensures that stable dosing of microliter volumes is provided even with minimal pressure difference between dosing cycles. Repeatable dosing is supported with active pressure relief for precise regulation, while bidirectional control can increase or decrease pressure. controller is available in three pressure ranges and both analog and digital variants. MD&M West, Booth 605
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Heat Seal Coating
Amcor, Buffalo Grove, IL, has launched a new heat seal coating technology designed to help medical device manufacturers better mitigate risk for greater patient safety. The ACT2100 heat seal adhesive for medicalgrade DuPont™ Tyvek is available with a wide range of companion materials. The next-generation coating technology was engineered to meet growing customer demand. It offers speedier ethylene oxide sterilization cycles thanks to the material’s improved porosity and features a fiber-free peel and a bright white adhesive that does not yellow. MD&M West, Booth 2021
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Class VI Tubing
Qosina, Ronkonkoma, NY, has expanded its Class VI tubing portfolio to include 50 new products. Stock and custom tubing are packaged in small coils for prototyping and extended lengths for large-scale production requirements. More than 150 off-the-shelf options in a variety of brands, types, diameters, durometers, and materials, including PharMed® BPT, SaniPure™ BDF™, Tuflux®, C-Flex®, Tygon®, and PharmaFluor®. In addition, custom tubing configurations, including cut-to-length pieces and custom coil sizes, colors, and materials, are also available. MD&M West, Booth 3113
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