Archive for the ‘Coating’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
I just received the summer issue of the Global Coverage e-newsletter from Specialty Coating Services, a supplier of parylene coating services, which has a couple of noteworthy items. The lead story covers the opening of a new plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic, which medtechinsider reported on back in August. Of ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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Building on an enzyme found in nature, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a nanoscale coating for surgical equipment, hospital walls and other surfaces which safely eradicates methicillin resistant Staphylococcus ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
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Researchers at the Empa ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) has opened its newest Parylene coating facility in Plzen, Czech Republic, approximately 100 km southwest of Prague. The 930-sq-m facility is SCS’s third European plant, joining existing sites in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and represents the company’s 10th coating centre worldwide. The two-level facility is comprised ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
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Developer of high performance coating technology, Ionbond has announced the successful ISO 13485:2003 certification of its UK service centre. It is the first Ionbond centre ...
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, and here's more proof. Bayer MaterialScience LLC announced at the MD&M East show and conference in New York yesterday that it has made significant improvements to its Medical Coatings Development Centre in Sheffield, UK. (It acquired the site earlier this year when ...
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Materials supplier DSM Biomedical has announced the extension of its partnership with Carbostent & Implantable Devices (CID), which markets the Optima Jet Stent Delivery System and Fluydo PTCA Balloon Catheter. CID uses DSM's ComfortCoat hydrophilic coating on both devices, which were placed on the European market last month.
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Good news for Hannover Messe: Air traffic is slowly getting back to normal and the aisles at the IVAM Product Market "Micro, Nano & Materials" are filling up. One of the companies exhibiting at the joint pavilion of the IVAM Microtechnology Network in Hall 6 is coating systems provider Panadur ...
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Think of it as the confection that holds together a fruitcake. That is how Michael Scholl, CEO of Leukocare, described his company’s surface functionalisation and binding technology to BIOMEDevice Europe attendees. It was one of several papers presented under the thematic umbrella of Enabling Technologies for Manufacturing Combination Products at ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Sono-Tek Corp. has expanded its ultrasonic technology to include systems for the application of ultra-thin film functional coatings onto various medical devices such as catheters, balloons, orthopaedic implants, endoscopic instruments, pacemakers, heart valves and related products. As functional coating formulations improve and devices get smaller, demand has surged for equipment ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Bayer MaterialScience, a leading polymer company, is to acquire PolyBioMed Ltd, a subsidiary of Lombard Medical Technologies plc, which provides polymer coatings, surface treatments and biomaterials. The acquisition gives Bayer MaterialScience access to application areas such as coronary drug eluting stents and catheter systems for interventional cardiology, urology and neurology.
The ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
While millions of people receive implants every year ranging from teeth to hip joints, developing the perfect material for orthopaedic and dental implants has been proven quite difficult. Scientists have discovered that the body's response to nanomaterials is different than its reaction to conventional materials and that nanopatterning of the ...
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