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The Effects of Annealing Conditions on the Structure and Properties of Polypropylene Fibers

Medical Plastics and Biomaterials Magazine MPB Article Index Originally published November 1997 TECHNICAL PAPER SERIES Polypropylene (PP) fibers have been widely used in the medical industry in the production of sutures, surgical mesh, and personal hygiene products. These diverse...

Polycarbonate Material Meets Critical Needs of Heart Surgery Device

Polycarbonate Material Meets Critical Needs of Heart Surgery Device Provides reliability, biocompatibility, and sterilizability When a product will be serving as the lungs of a patient during heart surgery, there is zero tolerance for material failure. Therefore, in designing the components for its...

Gasketing material provides EMI/RFI shielding

Products Featured on the Cover of Medical Product Manufacturing News Gasketing material provides EMI/RFI shielding Suitable for use in medical equipment, an EMI/RFI-shielding gasketing material offers high compressibility and recovery. Elastomet consists of monel, phosphor bronze, or...

MPMN Hotline : Process Speeds Prototyping of Silicone Medical Products

MPMN Hotline Contract Services Process Speeds Prototyping of Silicone Medical Products Can reduce prototype times up to 70% Vesta Inc., a manufacturer of custom silicone medical devices based in Franklin, WI, has developed a prototyping process that can reduce prototype times by as much as 70% as...

GE and EG&G Team Up on a Digital X-Ray Detector

GE and EG&G Team Up on a Digital X-Ray Detector Multipurpose instrument to provide fast, cost-effective x-rays GE Medical Systems (Milwaukee) has given EG&G Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) exclusive rights to manufacture a multipurpose digital x-ray detector designed to perform fast and...

Needleless Syringe Improved by Replacing Metal Parts with Plastic

Needleless Syringe Improved by Replacing Metal Parts with Plastic In the competitive medical device market, it is every manufacturer's goal to improve its devices and make them less expensive to manufacture. Designers at Medi-Ject (Minneapolis, MN) achieved this goal when they significantly...

Spotlight on Surface Treatment

Spotlight on Surface Treatment Thermal spray coatings Pictured is a stainless-steel vibratory feeder bowl coated with a self-lubricating thermal spray coating for protection against wear and contamination. Tough, flexible Plasmadize coatings are a true composite of the latest developments in metals...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice This feature comprises the top 80 products and the top 20 literature items from the past year. Surgical Drape Adhesives Single- or double-coated systems Flexible, conformable surgical drape adhesive systems are offered by a...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued)

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued) EDM Dictionary Contains 350 definitions A 44-page illustrated pocket dictionary contains 350 definitions of terms pertaining to EDM. The booklet can help EDM personnel of all levels, from students and apprentices to...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued)

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued) PVA Sponge Durable, biocompatible, and hydrophilic An ultrapure, chemical-resistant sponge is made from a patented polyvinyl acetal polymer that is durable, biocompatible, and highly hydrophilic. Available in a range of...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued)

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued) Silicone Adhesive Adheres to skin, metals, glass A pressure-sensitive silicone adhesive available in various solvents adheres to skin, metals, glass, paper, fabric, plastics, silicone, and organic rubber. MED-1355 retains...

Motor Provides Steady Power to X-Ray Viewing Device

Motor Provides Steady Power to X-Ray Viewing Device Enables diagnosticians to view multiple films as a series In order to make diagnoses from x-ray film, doctors need to use a tool known as an x-ray viewer. An x-ray filmchanger system is essential to a film viewer because without it,...

MPMN October 1997: Products Featured on the Cover

MPMN October 1997: Products Featured on the Cover Brushless dc motors offer long life and high performance A line of dc motors offers brushless longevity and slotless performance with brush manufacturability. To accommodate a variety of applications, the Elcom II motors can be configured...

Editor's Page

Editor's Page Medical Design Awards Program Debuts In July 1985, the first product tabloid created specifically for medical device designers and manufacturers was launched. In that 12-year span, Medical Product Manufacturing News has grown alongside the industry, publishing information on...

PDM Software Tracks Product Development Process

Software PDM Software Tracks Product Development Process Helps device manufacturers meet design control requirements Workgroup Technology Corp. (Lexington, MA) has developed a tool that provides medical device manufacturers with complete product data management ( PDM ) capabilities, enabling them...