Category: Medical Devices

Medical company brings vacuum in-house

Nitrex, Quebec, Canada, delivered a horizontal front-loading vacuum furnace with 6 bar quench capability to a medical device company in the USA for vacuum heat treating of dies as well as critical medical parts.

High temperature actuator alloy NiTi20Hf forged and hot-rolled to thin strips

Researchers from Fort Wayne Metals, Indiana; and NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, will report on the results of a study in which a large-scale plasma-arc-melted NiTi20Hf ingot was subjected to a hot forging and rolling process, during the ASM International IMAT 2020 conference to be held in Cleveland in September.

Standard methods under development for fatigue evaluation of SMA tubes and bars

Researchers from the Boeing Company and Texas A&M University will discuss two new standard test methods for fatigue in shape memory alloys at the ASM International IMAT 2020 conference in Cleveland in September.

Solar Manufacturing to design and build furnace for magnetic heat treatment process

Solar Manufacturing, Sellersville, Pa., announces that it has been commissioned by Magnetic Shields Ltd. of Kent, England, to design and build one of the largest horizontal vacuum furnaces in the United Kingdom.

Suspension plasma spray of hydroxylapatite improves adhesion of printed titanium implants

University West in Sweden announces that in the future, damaged bones can be rebuilt with 3D-printed implants that have thermally sprayed surface layers to make them more readily accepted by the human body.

Thermo Fisher Scientific diagnostic test for COVID-19 receives emergency approval

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, Mass., announces that on March 13 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its diagnostic test that can be used immediately by CLIA high-complexity laboratories in the United States to detect nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and not for any other viruses or pathogens.

Solar Manufacturing builds furnaces with all-metal hot zones for 3D printing and medical

Solar Manufacturing, Sellersville, Pa., recently built and shipped two furnaces to Tennessee, for service to the medical and additive manufacturing industries.

Retech Systems EB melting and vacuum arc remelting furnaces installed at titanium supplier

Retech Systems LLC, a Seco Warwick company, Ukiah, Calif., announces that its titanium melting equipment has been installed at the Pennsylvania facility of the Perryman Company, a leading global supplier of titanium to the aerospace, medical, consumer, and other industries.

Kymera to acquire Reading Alloys for its aerospace, defense, and medical materials

Kymera International, a specialty materials company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, has entered into a definitive agreement with Ametek Inc., Berwyn, Pennsylvania, to acquire its Reading Alloys business.

Grupo Mess becomes exclusive Buehler distributor for metallographic and hardness equipment in Mexico

Buehler, an ITW Company, Lake Bluff, Ill., announces a partnership with Grupo Mess, Queretaro City, Mexico, a leading Mexico supplier of scientific equipment and services specializing in metrology. The partnership provides local support to Buehler customers and other manufacturers for all their metallographic product and service needs.