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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Products: Medical
FCI (Etters, PA) has introduced the Flexible Connections(SM) series, which includes flex assemblies, fine-pitch jumpers, high-density BGA-based flex assemblies, and rigid flexes using press-fit backplane connectors. Signal...
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Products: Medical
Advanced Antivibration Components (New Hyde Park, NY) offers vibration isolators including silicone gel pads, sheets, silicone gel, and wire rope isolators for larger applications. Applications include medical equipment such...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Bioconnect (San Diego, CA), a division of RF Industries, offers replacement leads that feature DIN overmolded DIN sockets that have a positive fit with any brand of AAMI approved cables. The leads are manufactured using...
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Products: Materials
Laser Components (Hudson, NH) has introduced anti-reflection (AR) coatings for use in applications when high power has to be transmitted across optical fibers using a laser. These coatings are intended to reduce...
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Products: Medical
Teleflex Medical OEM (Kenosha, WI) has introduced an EFEP co-extrusion that eliminates the need for etching. The co-extrusion offers chemical resistance and high clarity for applications where transparency is...
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Products: Materials
CI Medical (Norton, MA) offers Radiopaque® ink for use on medical implantable devices. When coupled with fluoroscopy, the ink enables surgeons complete visibility of marked medical device components implanted...
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Products: Medical
The VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator is The Fastest, Easiest, Most Accurate Way to Compare a Part to a CAD FileTM. It works directly with your part’s CAD data and doesn’t...
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Products: Materials
Proto Labs is the world’s fastest provider of CNC machined and injection molded parts. Our Firstcut and Protomold services utilize proprietary computing technologies and automated manufacturing systems...
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Products: Medical
Interface has been solely focused on the balloon catheter market since 1995, and is the only vertically integrated provider of outsourced solutions for balloon catheter manufacturing. Our...
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Products: Medical
Da/Pro Rubber, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of precision, custom molded rubber, plastic, and TPE products. We work hand-in-hand with our customers to manufacture unique precision...
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Crane Aerospace & Electronics, Microelectronics Solutions, specializes in unique microelectronic packaging for customers requiring innovative approach to resolving size, weight and circuit density challenges while...
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Briefs: Medical
Self-Assembling Hydrophobin Useful for Coating Surfaces
This technology provides isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a mature thermophillic hydrophobin polypeptide suitable for a recombinant DNA technology production process. This compound self-assembles at interfaces and is applicable to a broad variety of surfaces....
Features: Materials
Many of today’s single-use medical devices would not be commercially viable without a lubricant coating. Dry lubricants using PTFE particles provide design engineers with a...
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Products: Materials
DYMAX (Torrington, CT) offers the UltraRed™ 1120-M-UR tack-free, LED-curable, plastic bonding medical device adhesive formulated for on-demand cure with the BlueWave® LED Prime UVA spot-curing lamp. Ultra-Red fluoresces...
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Products: Medical
MED Resins
Arkema (Philadelphia, PA) offers Pebax® MED resins for medical device applications, including devices exposed short-term to bodily fluids (
Products: Medical
PolyMedex Discovery Group (Putnam, CT) offers custom-colored, medical-grade polymers formulated for precision catheter components. PolyMedex color specialists utilize a library of more than 130 highly pure biocompatible...
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Products: Medical
Boyd Coatings Research Co. (Hudson, MA) has introduced a proprietary formulation of PTFE medical device coating. The CRC 7000 series is suitable for medical applications such as guidewires and other device components...
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Products: Materials
Stockwell Elastomerics (Philadelphia, PA) has introduced the Stockwell DP-1001 polyimide film supported silicone pressure-sensitive adhesive with a 91# poly-coated opaque white release liner that is easy to remove....
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Products: Medical
Alpha Wire (Elizabeth, NJ) offers a cable, wire, and tubing solution set for the medical device market. It is suitable for applications in diagnostic equipment such as MRI and CAT scanners, laboratory equipment, and...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
AMETEK Technical & Industrial Products (Kent, OH) offers compact Pittman® slotless brushless DC motors for medical device applications that require high efficiency and power with minimal heat, EMI, vibration, and noise. They...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The WLD3343 general-purpose laser diode driver from Wavelength Electronics (Bozeman, MT) provides up to 3 A output in a compact 14-pin DIP package. It is suitable for a variety of electro-optical instrumentation, including...
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Products: Medical
KNF Neuberger (Trenton, NJ) has introduced the FEM 1.02 and FEM 1.09 diaphragm dosing pumps for liquids that integrate simple 2-phase stepper motors. An optional and adaptable control module can be integrated into any...
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A biosensor is an analytical device that converts a biological response into an electrical signal. It is increasingly being used as a cost-effective diagnostic tool that offers the capability to...
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Briefs: Medical
The materials presented allow the writing on a single sheet of these materials without ink, but only by heat, thereby revealing a black and white image. This process is called thermographic...
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Features: Design
In July 2010, the FDA released a warning on a number of fibrin-based bleeding control products that were demonstrated to cause air embolisms in patients when used improperly during...
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Products: Medical
The MED-6655 fluorosilicone dispersion from NuSil (Carpinteria, CA) is comprised of 60% solids with a medium durometer. Because it is a room-temperature vulcanizing (RTV) material, it is suitable for spraying and...
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Halkey-Roberts (Saint Petersburg, FL) offers 4-way swabable luer-activated stopcocks (available in a lever or T-handle configuration) that provide the safety of a closed system with a leak-free aseptic swabable port....
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Xcentric Mold & Engineering (Chesterfield, MI) offers custom molded parts for medical products using all-electric machines that use 80% less energy than hydraulic oil machines. Press sizes range from 50 ton to 400 ton...
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Briefs: Medical
Radiation Protection Using Carbon Nanotube Derivatives
BHA and BHT are well-known food preservatives that are excellent radical scavengers. These compounds, attached to single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), could serve as excellent radical traps. The amino-BHT groups can be associated with SWNTs that have carbolyxic acid groups via acid-base...

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John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies 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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