Packaging/​Sterilization

Sterilization

Meet your manufacturing, regulatory, and quality-assurance standards. Know your medical device sterilization options, including steam, ethylene oxide (EtO), gamma rays, and electron beam (E-Beam) methods.

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Features: Materials
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The potential for environmental stress cracking is a common concern when plastics are used in medical devices. According to materials expert Jeffrey Jansen of The Madison Group, environmental stress cracking (ESC) is considered a...
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Features: Packaging & Sterilization
Silicone Adhesives for Medical Device Assemblies
Medical device assemblies present unique challenges beyond those associated with manufacturing and assembly of products for consumer and industrial applications. While sharing the need for...
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Features: Packaging & Sterilization
Current Trends in Sterile Medical Packaging and How They’re Impacting OEMs
The medical device industry often gets attention for its innovation and constant evolution. However, even the most innovative medical device technology is of no use if...
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Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
Ensuring Your Medical Device Meets Sterilization Standards Throughout the Supply Chain
Ensuring that device packaging meets specifications. Considering the complex science and research that goes into developing medical devices, it is important...
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Features: Medical
How High-Performance Polymers Help Medical Device Designers Work Smarter and Sleep Better
Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) represent one of the key challenges facing today’s healthcare industry. According to a recent study published by the...
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INSIDER: Medical
Plasma Sterilizer Protects Medical Instruments
A Ruhr-University Bochum researcher has developed a plasma sterilizer that is specifically suited for ridding medical instruments of germs efficiently, without damaging the material.
Briefs: Materials
Why Using the Right Rubber Compound Is Important for Medical Seals
Industrial-grade materials commonly find their way into medical designs due to the R&D time crunch. My experience has shown that industrial-grade O-rings are more readily...
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Features: Packaging & Sterilization
Sterilization with Nitrogen Dioxide Gas: A New Tool for Designers and Manufacturers
Noxilizer has developed a room temperature sterilization process for medical devices that is based on nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas. Currently, industrial...
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Features: Materials
Advances in Polycarbonate Color Compensation Technology to Withstand Sterilization by Irradiation Methods
Single- and multiple-use medical devices typically require sterilization prior to their use in order to provide for patient safety....
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How Autoclavable Brushless DC Motors Can Simplify Surgical Instrument Design
Today, powered surgical hand tools are used in almost all surgical specialties: ENT, Orthopedics, Neurology, Eye, and Plastics. Initially pneumatic powered, surgical...
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Features: Packaging & Sterilization
Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization Validations: Considerations in Reusable Device Design
Reusable devices face significant design challenges that single-use devices do not. A design engineer must think about how the device will perform...
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Products: Materials
Radiation Sterilization Process Indicator
Akron Coating and Adhesives (Akron, OH) offers the ACA60-140, a radiation sterilization process indicator that changes color at 25 kGy of gamma radiation and is suitable for use with the sterilization...
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