Himed’s MCD Apatitic Abrasive Blasting Capacity Is Growing
Here at Himed, we just added a new member to our team of robots. We call it iFAB (short for “fully automated blaster”). It’s a highly-dexterous, automated industrial robot with six-axes of motion, that is contained within a new production cell. The iFab has been specifically designed to deliver our biocompatible MATRIX MCD® treatment to medical devices, dental implants, and orthopedic implants.
An Ideal Post-Processing Solution for Additive-Manufactured Medical Devices
Few things have been as potentially revolutionary for the medical device industry as 3D printing. The process allows implant manufacturers to design and produce innovative products quickly and efficiently. But additive manufacturing does introduce a few specific issues medical implant designers and fabricators must take into account.
Himed Announces New MATRIX Dual® White Paper Publication
As the medical industry continues to explore the conditions for successful implant integration with the human body, closer attention is being paid to the surface morphology of a given device. That “closer attention” is taken quite literally in our latest white paper. In it, four case studies are reviewed that use advanced scanning technology to characterize—at the submicron and nanoscale level—surfaces treated with our two-step MATRIX Dual® process.
The Best Possible Outcome: The Importance of Post-Processing to Optimize Surface Morphology in Spinal Implants
Here at Himed, we are gearing up for the BIOMEDevice and the NASS trade shows in Boston. So we started asking ourselves what we were most excited about in orthopedic advancements in general, and spinal health in particular. The answer—perhaps not surprisingly for a surface treatment company—are the benefits that patients experience when spinal implants undergo optimizing surface treatments after manufacture.
Answering the Calls: 30 Years of Himed History
As President of Himed, Ed Garofalo oversees a business that’s now a leading global provider of cutting-edge biomaterials and surface treatments for the dental and orthopedic industries. Yet thirty years ago, if you went looking for Ed, you’d find him working with metal coatings for engine turbines at a family-owned business in New York called Hitemco.
Of course, engine turbine parts and a hip implant don’t have much in common on paper, but it’s safe to say that the finish on both had better be unquestionably precise before they’re put to use.