Custom 465® Offers Significant Advantages
As surgical procedures have become more complex and noninvasive, the requirements for instruments have become more demanding. Proper material selection is critical in instrument development. The material properties that must be considered include bio-compatibility, physical and mechanical properties as well as fabricability.

Engineering and Design Options for EDM
EDM could present alternatives to conventional machining for very intricate and so-called impossible parts. This article appeared in MD&DI magazine, Guide to Medical Precision Technology supplement.

Stainless Steels for Tubular Components in Surgical Instruments
Continuing advances in surgical techniques are requiring more instruments that use metal tubular components. The design requirements for these instruments are becoming ever more demanding as the procedures become more complex and confined. This article appeared in MD&DI magazine.

A Better Way to Fix Bones
An essentially nickel-free stainless alloy has shown higher levels of strength with fatigue and corrosion resistance making it an alternative alloy for biomedical implants and medical devices.

Stainless Steel for Medical Implants
The high level of Nitrogen in BioDur 108 stainless steel provides enhanced mechanical and physical properties for medical implants.

Properties of an Essentially Nickel-Free
Stainless Alloy for Medical Implants
For some time, the medical device industry has expressed interest in a biocompatible, nickel-free stainless steel as an alternative to the alloys commonly used in implantable Orthopaedic devices such as bone plates; bone screws; fracture, trauma and spinal fixation components; hip and knee parts and other medical instruments currently manufactured from conventional nickel-containing alloys.

New Stainless Hand Tools Have High Strength,
Toughness for Service in Corrosive or Clean Room Environments
A new line of high-performance, stainless steel hand tools offers a unique combination of attributes that have been considered useful to the medical, biomedical, biotech, pharmaceutical, food, nuclear, marine and other industries concerned with clean room sterility and/or exposure to corrosive environments.

Speciality Alloys and Titanium Shapes to Consider
for Latest Medical Materials Requirements
Carpenter Technology Corporation has developed a series of specialty alloys that can be considered to meet the latest requirements of the medical and dental industries for hand-held instruments, implanted fixation devices, replacement joints and orthodontic material.

Unique Properties of Alloys for the Medical
and Dental Products Industry
Alloys for medical and dental products must have an exceptional range of properties to meet the increasingly demanding manufacturing requirements and service conditions of this growing industry.

In a Word, the Stainless Medical Tubing Market is Boom(er)ing
With baby boomers growing older and medical technology becoming increasingly sophisticated, manufacturers of specialty steel tubing are riding a double-digit growth wave.

Medical Applications:

Medical Device Production - General Information
Mechanical properties of Razor-Edged Tubing, Sharpened Coil Electrodes, Electrosurgery/Cautery Electrodes, Precision Wire Pointing, and additional capabilities.

Medical Wire & Tube Components for Medical Devices
Information on a wide range of precision micromachining and forming services. We specialize in custom manufacturing and would gladly consider any projects that you might have.

Burr-Free Cutting
Information on burr-free cutting of small diameter wire and tubing. Square burr-free cuts are our specialty. We also offer custom angle-cut ends, vibratory and "Z" axis tumbling, passivation, straightening and surface texturing.

Razor-Edged™ Cutters
Offering a huge selection of custom made metal punches, cutters and trephines to suit a wide variety of biomedical applications. Ultra sharp edges on stainless steel, platinum, platinum-iridium, and many other metals are used throughout the medical device industry as components and sub-components.

NiTi Polishing
NiTiNOL is a nickel titanium alloy which has remarkable 'shape memory' or 'super-elastic' characteristics, i.e. once a shape is set it will return to the original shape , or maintain it's original shape after an initial deformation. This unique property provides many opportunities and end applications for this alloy, especially in the medical device industry.

Semiconductor Applications:

Semiconductor Probe Needles
Part number clarification, terminology, tolerances and material properties.

Probe Needle Capabilities
Overview of the complete probe manufacturing process.

Semiconductor Probe Current Carrying Capacity
The current carrying capacity (or ampacity) of a cantilevered probe is limited by the maximum permissible temperature rise of the conductor and the bond pad under normal operating conditions.

Semiconductor Probe Resistance
Resistivity is a measure of a conductor's resistance to the flow of current. The units of resistancy, Ω-cir. mil/ft (1 Ω-cir. mil/ft = 6.015 µΩ cm), refer to a conductor one foot in length with a 1.0-mil (0.001 in.) diameter, circular cross section.

Manufacturing Probe Needles With Vision (EE Article)
Inventive motion and vision to semiconductor probe needle inspection replaces a slow, labor-intensive, and error-prone method that required extensive operator training.

Biotech Applications:

Microarray Spotting Pin Offerings - Costa Rica
Overview of Microarray Spotting Pins manufactured in Veridiam Medical's state-of-the-art facility located in Global Park, Heredia, Costa Rica.