Archive for the ‘Coating’ Category
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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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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