Casting, finishing under one roof at Lincotek Medical
Contract manufacturer’s new investment provides complete service for orthopedic customers.
Global contract manufacturer Lincotek Medical has recently brought casting and finishing under one roof at its plant in Portland, Oregon. The Lincotek Medical Portland facility historically provided castings for a vast range of customers in the medical industry. With the newly-installed, state-of-the-art finishing line, Lincotek Medical will move a step further and provide medical device customers with a unique integrated approach, starting from the casting to the finished product – all in one location.
With this investment,
Lincotek Medical will be able to provide finished products in a cost-effective process at shortest possible lead time. The site can be easily scaled up to any potential demand. The global knee replacement market is well established and this new, integrated solution will be of a particular interest in terms of co
#6 - Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings
Top articles from 2020: Highly engineered coatings can improve surface hardness, durability of medical components.
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) wear-resistant thin film coatings can protect instruments and medical devices subject to high loads, extreme friction, wear, and contact with other parts. The high hardness of a DLC coating – along with a low coefficient of friction – can prevent parts from pitting, galling, seizing, and ultimately failing in the field.
DLC coatings can be highly engineered based on hydrogen content (hydrogenated or hydrogen-free), selection of additional metallic and non-metallic doping elements, presence of sub-layers, and choice of deposition and bonding methods. These factors can be precisely controlled to create a broad range of thinly applied (1µm to 5µm) DLC coatings with 8GPa to 80GPa hardness or higher (diamond is measured from 70GPa to 150GPa). The desired coefficient of friction, surface finish, and app
Festo’s critical mass of life science automation products for COVID-19 diagnostic equipment
The company is offering a range of solutions for decapping, automated Cartesian handling, or fluid dispensing.
manufacturers a one-stop-shop for world-class vial sorting, decapping, kinematic sample-handling, and fluid dispensing solutions. This critical mass of
life sciences automation products from Festo will enable device manufacturers to bring products designated for pandemic-related diagnostics and testing to market faster and with lower engineering overhead.
“The pandemic has created an urgent need to ramp up development and production of high-speed diagnostic and testing equipment,” said Craig Correia, Director of Life Science, Festo North America. “Festo is not only expanding its range of product and system solutions, but also is allocating resources in terms of custom engineering and assembly.”
Festo Introduces New Rotary Gripper for High-Speed Vial and Microplate Handling
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The compact EHMD rotary gripper is ideal for capping/decapping sample vials and other automated sample handling tasks.
The compact rotary gripper module EHMD comes in two versions: fully electric or with a pneumatic gripper. ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) December 17, 2020
Festo introduces the - EHMD compact rotary gripper module for high speed laboratory sample handling. This versatile rotary gripper caps and decaps sample vials, loads centrifuges, and grips, rotates, and places microwell plates. Combined with a Festo 3D gantry handling system and a camera, the new gripper supports quality inspection, barcode reading, and label printing. The EHMD gripper is the latest in a series of new laboratory automation products introduced by Festo Life Science.