Medical Devices Archives - Page 7 of 12

Compact atmosphere box furnace heat treats medical device components

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an atmosphere box furnace to a leading supplier of the medical device industry for heat treating parts.

Zimmer Biomet launches Vanguard Individualized titanium knee replacement

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Warsaw, Ind., has launched Vanguard individualized design, a first-of-its-kind total knee arthroplasty construct designed to enable a personalized fit while simplifying soft tissue preservation and balance.

Boston Scientific‘s platinum-chromium drug-eluting stent has bioabsorbable polymer

Boston Scientific announces that the Synergy platinum-chromium coronary stent system is the first and only stent with bioabsorbable polymer coating that is FDA-approved for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

Confluent Medical partners with consortium to develop additive manufacturing of Nitinol

Confluent Medical Technologies, Fremont, Calif., a leading contract manufacturer of Nitinol-based medical devices, is partnering with the Colorado School of Mines and the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) program to advance additive manufacturing methods for Nitinol.

Norman Noble celebrates 70 years of making Nitinol microprecision medical devices

Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, focused on Nitinol and other alloys for microprecision contract manufacturing for the medical device industry, is celebrating its 70th year of business in Northeast Ohio.

Materion supplies beryllium for retrofit of Belgium’s nuclear test reactor

Materion Corp., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, reports that beryllium components supplied by Materion Performance Alloys and Composites are helping Belgium’s BR2 nuclear test reactor to continue operation and contribute to the world’s supply of radiopharmaceuticals.

Plasma spray titanium coatings on PEEK implants enhance bone fusion

Centinel Spine, West Chester, Pa., has developed Ti-Active titanium plasma spray coatings on polyetheretherketone implants.

Titanium 2016 conference to focus on world demand trends

The International Titanium Association, Northglenn, Colo., announces that the Titanium 2016 conference and exhibition will focus on the global titanium industry.

Bodycote Ipswich heat treating facility earns MedAccred status

Bodycote, England, announces that its facility in Ipswich, Mass., has earned MedAccred accreditation, underlining its high standards of quality.

Instron Torsion Add-On enables simultaneous axial and torsion tests

Instron, Norwood, Mass., has designed the Instron Torsion Add-On for simple simultaneous axial and torsional testing to ensure the performance of many consumer products, packaging, electronics, and medical devices.

Gold boosts titanium knee strength

Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it is strong, wear-resistant and nontoxic, but adding gold might make implants even better.

Test instrument with friction-free motor integrates with torsion actuator

TA Instruments, New Castle, Del., introduces the ElectroForce 3310, which delivers 1 kN of force capacity and can be integrated with a torsion actuator that provides simultaneous axial-torsion loading.

Glowing nanosubmarines to deliver drugs and cargo

The next generation of nanosubmarines has been upgraded with tags that fluoresce longer allowing them to be tracked for greater periods while being driven through solutions.

Coating improves implant-bone bonding

Researchers developed a technique for coating polymer implants with a bioactive film that significantly increases bonding between the implant and surrounding bone in an animal model.

3D-bioprinted placenta could treat preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication involving the placenta that can be serious—even fatal—for the mother or baby.

Advanced Heat Treat completes Phase I of plasma nitriding evaluation

Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT), Waterloo, Iowa, announces that it has completed Phase I of a grant to evaluate plasma nitriding for improved life of forging dies by generating a hard case on tribological surfaces.

3D printed spine mimics bone

Stryker’s Spine division, Allendale, N.J., introduces the Tritanium Posterior Lumbar Cage, a 3D-printed intervertebral body fusion device made of Tritanium, a highly porous titanium alloy designed for bone in-growth and biological fixation.

Self-healing material twitches like muscle

Jolting a super-stretchy, self-healing material with an electrical field causes it to twitch or pulse in a muscle-like fashion. The polymer can also stretch to 100 times its original length, and even repair itself if punctured.

ASM Fellow Iver Anderson inducted into National Academy of Inventors

The DOE Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University announces that ASM Fellow Iver Anderson, Senior Metallurgist, has been inducted into the National Academy of Inventors for demonstrating a “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating and facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.”

G. Rau Group acquires final shares, becomes sole owner of Admedes Schuessler

Euroflex, Germany, announces that its parent company, G. Rau Group, has acquired the remaining shares of Admedes Schuessler GmbH from the co-founder Dr. Andreas Schüssler, making the G. Rau Group the sole owner.

Solar Atmospheres receives first MedAccred re-accreditation

Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa., announces that it has become the first company to receive MedAccred critical process re-accreditation, an industry-managed critical process supply chain oversight program developed by leading medical device companies to improve device quality and enhance patient safety.

Amorphous steel powder metallurgy alloy has highest impact resistance

The University of California San Diego announces that a team of engineers has developed and tested SAM2X5-630, a type of amorphous steel with a record-breaking ability to withstand impact without deforming permanently.

H.C. Starck joins WPI Center for Heat Treating Excellence

H.C. Starck, Newton, Mass., announces that it has joined the team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence, an alliance between the industrial sector and university researchers that addresses short- and long-term needs in the heat treating and thermal processing industry.

Höganäs introduces 17-4 PH steel powder for its Digital Metal 3D printing technology

Höganäs, Sweden, extends its 3D printing capability by introducing high-performance 17-4 PH stainless steel for its Digital Metal printing technology.

Norman Noble explains how to process Nitinol to make successful medical implants

Norman Noble, Highland Heights, Ohio, has prepared “Nitinol Implant Design & Manufacturing,” a paper that explains the properties of the alloy and the challenges involved with processing Nitinol to make effective medical implants such as vascular stents, atrial fibrillation devices, and orthopedic anchors.

Bioresorbable magnesium alloy shows promise as coronary scaffold

Magnesium Elektron, U.K., announces that a ten-year research program with Biotronik, Germany, has resulted in Elektron’s SynerMag 410 alloy system being selected as the platform material in the Biotronik magnesium coronary scaffold.

European collaboration to build high-energy ball mill plant for nanopowders

The United Kingdom’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and nine other European partners are collaborating in the design, scale-up, and build of a high energy ball-mill (HEBM) pilot plant for the production and validation of innovative nanostructured powders.