Originally Published MDDI July 2004

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AgIon Technologies LLC
www.agion-tech.com  
Inorganic antimicrobial coating technology.

Allvivo Inc.
www.allvivo.com  
Biointeractive coatings for devices, engineering, and research.

Applied Diamond Coatings LLC
www.applieddiamondcoatings.com 
Coatings to reduce friction.

Armoloy of Connecticut Inc.
www.armoloyct.com 
Coatings to extend wear and improve release properties.

AST Products Inc.  
www.astp.com 
Surface modification technologies for medical devices. 

Bacterin Inc.
www.bacterin.com 
Anti-infective coatings to provide a protective barrier against bacterial colonization.

Biosurface Engineering Technologies Inc.
www.biosetinc.com 
Biocompatible surface coatings, including drug-delivery and thromboresistant stent and vascular-graft coatings.

Boyd Coatings Research Company, Inc.
www.boydcoatings.com 
Custom-developed high-performance coatings.

Carmeda AB
www.carmeda.com 
Hemocompatible heparin surfaces for stents, vascular grafts, artificial hearts, sensors, and catheters.

Coating Technologies Inc.
www.coatsys.com    
Polymers to reduce surface friction of elastomers.

Donwell Co.
www.donwell.com 
Teflon and high-performance coatings.

Electrostatic Technology Inc.
www.eti.nordson.com 
Coating services. 

4th State Inc.
www.4thstate.com 
Customized plasma coatings. 

Hydromer Inc.
www.hydromer.com   
Hydrophilic polymer-based lubricious, antithrombogenic, biostatic, radiopaque, and drug-delivery coatings.

Impreglon Inc.
www.impreglon.us  
Coatings to address slide, traction, abrasion, release, and corrosion.

Multi-Arc Inc.
www.multi-arc.com  
Titanium nitride, zirconium nitride, titanium-aluminum nitride, chromium nitride, and amorphous diamond coatings.

Para Tech Coating Inc.
www.parylene.com   
Parylene and custom coatings.

Paratronix Inc.
www.paratronix.com
Parylene conformal coating services. 

Parylene Coating Services Inc.
www.paryleneinc.com
Conformal coatings for elastomers, forming mandrels, stents, pacemakers, and guidewires.

Specialty Coating Systems
www.scscookson.com
Parylene coating services and materials.

Spire Corp.
www.spirecorp.com
Surface-modification services based on ion implantation and ion beam–assisted deposition.

STS Biopolymers/MCTec
www.stsbiopolymers.com
Biocompatible coatings, including lubricious, antithrombogenic, antirestenosis, antimicrobial, anti-infection, and echogenic models.

Surface Solutions Laboratories Inc.
www.surfacesolutionslabs.com
Water-based coatings to change surface feel and/or function.

SurModics Inc.
www.surmodics.com
Coatings for lubricity, hemocompatibility, and multifunctional surfaces.

Techni-Met Inc.
www.techni-met.com 
Precision-coated materials, specializing in vacuum deposition of inorganic materials onto flexible polymeric films.

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