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Engineered Coatings Offer Improvement for Medical Device Manufacturers

Diamond electroless nickel coating provides better lubricity and improved wear resistance for molds, resulting in better quality and productivity.

Silica-free Abrasive Compounds Offer Improved Health, Safety

Osborn has a line of silica-free abrasive compounds that offer both employee and environmental benefits.

Precision Coating Receives ISO 14001 Certification

The company says its commitment to the environment and its health led it to seek this certification.

Parts Cleaning

MicroCare Appoints Commercial Sales Manager

MicroCare welcomes Kristin Rosas as its strategic account executive for its Precision and Medical Device Manufacturing Fluids divisions.

Electroplating

Cleaning, Pretreatment to Meet Medical Specs ISO 13485 or FDA 21 CFR820

Maximilian Kessler from SurTec explains new practices for industrial parts cleaning, metal pretreatment and decorative electroplating in the medical device industry.

Powder Coating

Proper Testing of a Powder Coat Finish

Manufacturer shows how it performs extensive tests on powder coated medical carts.

Liquid Coating

PPG Earns R&D 100 Awards for Antimicrobial, Antiviral Paints

The award-winning coatings from PPG continuously kill viruses and bacteria, including the virus responsible for COVID-19.

Electroplating

Finishing High Reliability, Function Critical Parts

From safety critical automotive and aerospace components to lifesaving medical micro-components and implantable devices, Indiana-based Electro-Spec finishes applications that require zero failure rates.

Scott Francis
Editor-In-Chief, Gardner Business Media

Anodizing

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.

Electroplating

The Future of Virus Detection

High purity surfaces to enable spectroscopy-based diagnostic testing.

Anodizing

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.

Electroplating

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. .

Liquid Coating

Managing Stacked Tolerances with PTFE Lubricants

PTFE coatings allow surgical instruments to overcome static friction.

Parts Cleaning

Advanced Solvent Technology for Medical Device Cleaning

An insider's look at new critical cleaning technologies being used in the manufacture of medical instruments.

Custom Plating Technology Enables Medical Devices

Finisher collaboration during product design delivers plating solutions for medical OEMs.

Heather Gaynor
Editor, VALVE Magazine, Gardner Business Media

Parts Cleaning

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.

Microcare Acquires Certol International

The acquisition will expand products and service within medical and dental markets.

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.

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.

Liquid Coating

Expanding Medical Coating Capabilities

One company’s approach to broadening its functional coatings offerings to further serve the medical sector.

Anodizing

Nanostructure of the Anodic and Nanomaterials Sol-Gel Based Materials Application: Advances in Surface Engineering

Porous alumina can be fabricated electrochemically through anodic oxidation of aluminum. This paper reviews sol-gel chemistry and applications, which also offers unusual nanoporous microstructures. The ability to control pore chemistry at different scales and geometries, provides excellent bioactivity, enabling the entrapment of biologically active molecules and their controllable release for therapeutic and medical applications.

Electroplating

Electroplating for Medical Devices

Brittany McKinney of Pavco Inc. discusses the benefits of electroplating for medical devices.

Powder Coating

Automation Smoothes the Way for Surgical Coatings

Medical device coating company discusses how automation enables increased abrasion resistance and improved insulative properties for electrosurgery.

The Road to Recovery

The past few issues of Products Finishing have touched on how different market sectors have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. As we come to the end of the year, PF editor-in-chief Scott Francis takes time to reflect on the manufacturing industry’s response during the COVID era and to contemplate finishing’s role in the medical sector.

Electroplating

A Conversation With Will Wallace of SAT Plating

SAT Plating general manager Will Wallace talks to Products Finishing about his company’s surface activation technology, plating on composites, and what the changing manufacturing landscape might mean for platers.

Electroplating

Hard Chrome Enterprises Inc. Acquired

The plating company has served the aerospace, automotive, medical and consumer sectors since 1969.

Parts Cleaning

Reshoring of Medical Equipment With an Eye on Electropolishing

Hubbard-Hall prepares to help surface finishers seeking to implement electropolishing processes in order to take advantage of reshoring efforts to bring production work back to the U.S.

Electroplating

CFS Expands Electropolishing Services to Additional Markets

After providing electropolishing services to the industrial manufacturing industry for more than 20 years, Custom Fab Solutions has announced it is expanding its offerings to additional markets including food and beverage, medical devices and aerospace.

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