“Challenges & Solutions for Reusable Medical Devices Requiring Reprocessing” There’s been an important development in the 2016 FDA science priorities that involves taking a stronger look at the reprocessing cycle and the impact on reusable medical devices. The regulations aim…

Is a Lighter Color Aluminum Hard Coat Thinner than a Darker One? I have been asked this question often: “Is it always the case that a lighter color hard coat is less thick than a darker one?” While the answer…

Precision Coating Establishes a PTFE/Teflon® Coating Application Facility in Costa Rica With an increasing amount of medical device products being produced in Costa Rica, it has become a regional hub for medical device, biotech, and health-care companies, and Costa Rica…

The Impact of Foreign Materials on Aluminum Parts before Anodizing Although simple in principle, there is a lot of confusion over how aluminum parts need to arrive at the metal finisher so that they can be anodized. Any time a…

The Validated Capabilities of MICRALOX™ Anodic Coating Third-party test results have validated multiple sterilization capabilities of the revolutionary anodic coating, MICRALOX™. High-performance MICRALOX™ has been tested for use with the STERRAD® 100NX low-temperature hydrogen peroxide gas plasma sterilization. The data revealed that…