medical
Solving 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.
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The 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.
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A 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. .
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Managing Stacked Tolerances with PTFE Lubricants
PTFE coatings allow surgical instruments to overcome static friction.
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Advanced Solvent Technology for Medical Device Cleaning
An insider's look at new critical cleaning technologies being used in the manufacture of medical instruments.
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Navigating 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.
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Microcare 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.
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Toxins 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.
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