Materials & Manufacturing

Advances in materials and manufacturing are leading to better implants, prosthetics, and devices. Browse innovative developments in materials and manufacturing that significantly impact medical device design and production.

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Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc., Norwood, MA, introduces clipKIT™, a heat sink attachment system that can be used with most industry standard, off the shelf straight fin, pin fin, cross cut, or slant fin heat...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics, Minneapolis, MN, announces custom miniaturized components in a broad range of materials. The company can mold miniature components for fluid delivery systems using custom blends of PEEK,...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Interpower Group of Companies, Oskaloosa, IA, has expanded its cord set and power cord product lines with two new power cords and three new cord sets featuring the preferred configuration of the SANS...
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Products: Medical
Designatronics, Inc., New Hyde Park, NY, introduces a new line of couplings. Sterling Instrument’s Miniature Fairloc® bellows couplings are zero backlash, easy to install, and correct for angular and parallel axis...
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Products: Medical
Nordson EFD, East Providence, RI, introduces the EV Series Automatic Dispensing System, which delivers easy automation for precise fluid application. With DispenseMotion software, the EV Series is easy to...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Intersil Corporation, Milpitas, CA, announced the first 60V synchronous buck controller able to bypass the step-down conversion stage traditionally employed in industrial applications. The ISL8117 synchronous...
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Products: Medical
Micronor Inc., Newbury Park, CA, introduces the world’s first commercially-available MRI-safe linear position sensor system for OEM motion control applications. With 100μm...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mouser Electronics, Inc., Mansfield, TX, is now stocking the MAX30100 Pulse Oximeter and Heart-Rate Sensor IC for wearable health from Maxim Integrated. The MAX30100 is a 14-pin surface mount IC that combines the...
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Products: Medical
Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc., Chatsworth, CA, offers a new control method called Spectral Decomposition to improve the productivity of systems that use fast-tool actuators. Spectral Decomposition seamlessly coordinates...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Dynapar, Gurnee, IL, is offering a free 30- day beta test trial to all interested and qualified parties, for its key product families of incremental and absolute encoders, with thousands of configurations available....
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Products: Medical
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Waterbury, CT, announces the latest addition to its IDEA drive line of motor controllers: the PBL4850E programmable 3-phase brushless motor drive, which features automatic...
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Products: Medical
Linear Technology Corporation, Milpitas, CA, introduces the LTC2984, a high performance digital temperature measurement integrated circuit (IC) that directly digitizes RTDs, thermocouples, thermistors, and...
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Products: Medical
SCHURTER Inc., Santa Rosa, CA, has expanded its portfolio of block filters for single-phase systems, with its new FMAB NEO series. This filter is extremely compact, has a polished steel housing, is completely shielded no...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fluid Metering, Inc., Syosset, NY, announces that its miniature, stepper driven valveless OEM pumps are ideal for low and micro-volume fluid control in medical diagnostic and clinical chemistry instrumentation. The...
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Products: Medical
Davis Standard, LLC, Pawcatuck, CT, introduces its Medical Direct Drive (MEDD) Extruder for tight tolerance tubing. The MEDD offers processors greater materials flexibility in a compact design. It features a replaceable feed...
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Products: Medical
Acme Metal Spinning, Minneapolis, MN, uses a metal spinning process to seamlessly form flat metal discs and pre-formed metal work pieces on CNC metal spinning lathes into components for medical device and...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Gardner Denver Thomas, Inc., Sheboygan, WI, introduces the Thomas 1610 advanced diaphragm pump, which combines precise, consistent performance with very low sound levels, making it ideal for devices working near patients. Its...
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Products: Medical
Zemax, LLC, Kirkland, WA, announces the next version of its optical and illumination design software. OpticStudio 15 adds highly requested features, including a new COM/.NET API for communicating with external programs, a...
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Products: Medical
Butler Automatic, Middleborough, MA, announces that its SP1 Series Automatic Film Splicer is ideally suited for medical device packaging applications. It increases efficiency in packaging operations by...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Colordyne Technologies, Brookfield, WI, introduces its new 2600 Series Mini Press, a commercial class roll-to-roll label printing system featuring an intuitive touch screen interface, allowing flexibility and on the fly...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
KNF Neuberger, Inc., Trenton, NJ, has added two compact, powerful models, the NFB 5 and NFB 25, to its line of brushless DC powered NFB boxer pumps. The pumps offer low pulsation, gentle transfer of liquids from 5...
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Products: Medical
Watson-Marlow Inc., Wilmington, MA, announces that its 400RXMD OEM pumps feature a range of precise pressure settings that allows users to tailor products to specific customer applications. An innovative mechanism provides up...
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Products: Medical
Albright Technologies, Leominster, MA, has introduced liquid silicone injection molding services for prototype and low volume production purposes. Its new injection molding presses are suited for small,...
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Hoffmann–Krippner Inc., Frisco, TX, introduces a wide range of LVDT sensors for contactless and wear-free path and position detection. The sensors operate on the principle of the differential transformer and...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Lee Company, Westbrook, CT, introduces a new variable volume pump, the LPD Series Stepper Dispense Pump. Available in 50 and 250 microliter full dispense volumes, this miniature chemically inert pump was...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Acopian Power Supplies, Easton, PA, announces that its Narrow Profile power supply series is now certified to UL 60950 and UL 508, and conforms to all requirements to achieve CE marking. The single-output switching...
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Products: Medical
FLIR Systems, Wilsonville, OR, ann ounces the release of version 4.2 of its ResearchIR software, which provides a powerful tool for viewing, acquiring, analyzing, and sharing the thermal data captured with FLIR’s...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
ODU-USA, Camarillo, CA, is offering the entire compressed air and fluid range of ODU-MAC® with higher flow rates and/or high operating pressure for a wide range of medical, industrial, and measurement and testing...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Enercon Industries Corporation, Menomonee Falls, WI, has released its new series of industrial blown arc and blow ion plasma treaters to be used on plastics, glass, and metals. These new systems provide simplified...
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Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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