Medical industry - Import export

Our teams at Progress produce parts for all fields of industry and medical sector with a particular focus on the characteristics specific to each type of production

Stainless steel pull handles are used mainly on equipment in the medical and food industry as well as in laboratories and neuclear technology.

Ceramic bearings Si3N4. Bearing cage PTFE. For most applications Si3N4 is the preferred material for ceramic bearings. Silicon nitride bearings are light, very hard and highly wear resistant. High and ultrahigh performance bearings are used in e.g. aerospace technology, metal production industries (high application temperatures), machine manufacturing, chemical industries (chemically aggresive substances), pharmaceutical and medical industries, semiconductor and biotechnology (clean room enviroments which may not be contaminated by lubricants). On request Special version with PEEK ball cage. Without ball cage.

Westlake Plastics manufactures medical grade polymer stock shapes in rods and sheets for orthopaedic trial parts and instruments, dental applications and other surgical tools and accessories requiring medical grade standards and biocompatibility. Within its range of medical grade polymers, Westlake offers: - Polycarbonate (PC) gamma sterilized under its Zelux® GS brand name - Polyetherimid (PEI) under its Tempalux® brand name - Polypropylen (PP) under its Propylux® brand name - Polyphenylsulfon (PPSU) under the Radel® brand name - Ultra High-Molecular Weight Polethylen (UHMW-PE) under its Lennite® brand name These polymers can be used for various medical and surgical tools, knee / hip / shoulder trial parts for orthopaedic implant kits and various other medical grade applications (sterilizable cases and containers) requiring high biocompatibility specifications (USP Class VI and ISO10993).

With the new tightening procedures for cleaning and disinfecting implant ancillaries, PPSU offers an interesting solution guaranteeing a longer life cycle for products. Though it costs usually more than other medical grade polymers (POM, PP), it can nevertheless prove to be more economical in the long term due to its durability. This is especially true for complex designs which are expensive to machine. PPSU does not have any problems with the cleaning & pre-disinfection products. Our material is lot controlled, serialized and is delivered with a certificate of conformance. Coloured resin has been tested under ISO10993/5/10/11/18. The material is not for permanent implantation. PPSU behaves very well after a large number of sterilisation cycles in an autoclave at 134°C/273°F, it can be sterilized through other methods (ETO; gamma, plasma, dry heat). it is polishable for a perfect finish.

Irrespective of the application, Axon' is able to offer cable assemblies and interconnect systems terminated with different types of connectors including miniature Micro-D connectors,D-Sub connectors, coaxial connectors or rugged MIL-DTL-38999 connectors. From one-off demand to mass production, Axon' Cable is able to deliver cable assemblies including single and multi-branched harnesses. The company is able to offer custom designed interconnect solutions for high tech applications including aeronautics, defence, space, oil& gas, medical, general industry,etc. Axon' harness capability consists of highly skilled operators trained to IPC/WHMA-A-620. Axon' has a long-standing experience in the fields of RF and EMI protection as well as in overmoulding techniques.

There are numerous benefits to use ceramics in the field of scientific and medical instrumentation. Ceramics resist to severe environments, and demonstrate excellent properties of electrical insulation, low thermal expansion and high corrosion resistance. Also, they are clean materials in view of their high purity levels, no open porosities and biomedical inertness. In addition to single ceramic products, Microcertec can also offer ceramic to metal brazed assemblies that are hermetic in vacuum and ultra-high vacuum - UHV. Applications In the analytical scentific and medical equipment industry, ceramic components are primarily used in analyzing, diagnosis, vision and therapy systems : mass spectrometers MNR spectrometers gas analyzers particle accelerators electronic microscopes imaging equipment blood analyzers neurosurgery instruments endoscopes Products Precision grinding allows to achieve extremely tight dimensional tolerances and very diverse geometries. It is also...