Archive for the ‘Coating’ Category
Monday, May 9th, 2011
Optical broadband monitoring, a new technology to monitor the production process of optical layers, is now available from Berliner Glass. The technology allows the production of very complex layers for reflection, transmission and absorption on optical components.
These complex layers can be used in filters for fluorescence applications, interference filters for ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) will be hosting one-day seminars in Europe to introduce parylene coating technologies to engineers in the medical device, electronics, automotive and aerospace industries. The May seminars are free and will be held at various locations throughout Europe. At the seminar, an SCS technical specialist will present ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
As part of the opening ceremony of its new parylene coating facility in Galway, Ireland, Metal Improvement Company (MIC) is hosting a complimentary seminar on advanced surface technologies for the medical device industry. The session will take place at the Radisson Hotel in Galway on Thursday 24 March and will ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
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For most people, being the last speaker of the last session on the last day of a conference is the kiss of death. Not so for Delwyn Evans, Principal Chemist ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
German medical device development company MaRVis Technologies GmbH has developed two new technologies for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. One of the innovations involves optimised tear-resistant MaRVis rods. The fibre-epoxy rods enable the manufacture of MR-compatible guidewires without metal cores. They have mechanical properties equivalent to commercial products ...
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
When Julian Hergenröther of Leukocare (Martinsried, Germany) and I met years ago working student jobs before joining the real world, neither of us knew that we would bump into each other again several years later. But there he is—a biotechnical engineer writing an article about the latest technologies ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
The long-term performance of medical implant devices, such as heart valves and cardiac stents, could be enhanced substantially by new bio-coating technology recently licensed to Endomimetics LLC from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The patent-pending technology is a novel bio-nanomatrix coating, or a bio-engineered material on the nanoscale, that mimics ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
The Zimmer Manufacturing site in Etupes, France, is using an innovative surface treatment process for coating hip implants. The process involves applying layers of titanium and hydroxylapatite by means of a semi-automated plasma treatment system. The technique dramatically reduces the potential for biocontamination between the coating process and packaging of ...
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
A new continuous coating line for the manufacture of hydrophilic-coated polymer tubing is up and running at the MCTec facility in Venlo, Netherlands. The polymeric tubing can be supplied in a range of materials and diameters and is availabe in customer-specified cut lengths. The tubing is primarily used for the ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
A new 180-kHz ultrasonic nozzle enables medtech manufacturers to reduce the amount of material used to coat stents. Developed by Sono-Tek Corp., the nozzle produces a median drop size of 13 µm (with water), which is several microns smaller than can be achieved with the 120-kHz nozzle that is typically ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) has announced new dates for its 2010 road trip, which was cancelled last spring because of a certain Icelandic volcano by the name of—take a deep breath—Eyjafjallajökull. The one-day seminars on the use of Parylene coatings in medical and other applications will be held on 21 ...
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
A new plasma-based surface treatment for pressurised metered dose inhaler (MDI) canisters reportedly prevents deposition of the drug on the canister's inner wall. The plasma coating and treatment processes developed by Presspart, a supplier of metal and plastic components and drug delivery devices based in Blackburn, UK, also improves drug stability ...
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