Fringe Friday: Furnace Designed To Fit Medical Industry Supplier Specs

August 30, 2024 / ATMOSPHERE AIR FURNACES NEWS, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS

We’re celebrating getting to the “fringe” of the weekend with a Heat Treat Fringe Friday covering news about a Class A safety batch furnace delivered to a supplier to the medical industry. The components manufacturer needed equipment that would accommodate the doorway dimensions of its facility and found a Pennsylvania-based international industrial and laboratory furnace manufacturer able to design one to fit the specs.

While not exactly heat treat, “Fringe Friday” deals with interesting developments in one of our key markets: aerospace, automotive, medical, energy, or general manufacturing.

A supplier to the medical industry recently purchased a Class A safety oven from an international industrial and laboratory furnace manufacturer. The Pennsylvania-based provider designed the batch furnace for ease of move-in and installation, modified to an overall height of 79 inches and width of 45” to accommodate the ceiling height and doorway dimensions at the client’s facility.

Blue M® manufactured the furnace with a temperature range of 15°C (59°F) above ambient to 316°C (601°F). The temperature is controlled by a Watlow EZ Zone PM controller with advanced PID control algorithm. The controller offers TRU-TUNE™ adaptive control for tight control and auto-tune for a quick, efficient start up.

“Blue M offers customers the flexibility to request engineered-to-order modifications to our standard oven designs,” said Jonathan Young, product manager at Blue M. “This Class A oven features custom exterior dimensions to accommodate the customer’s facility ceiling height and doorways. This is the second unit with these special dimensions that this customer has ordered.”

The interior chamber has dimensions of a 48″ W x 24″ D x 48″ and is constructed with 304 stainless steel. All of the seams and ports of the interior chamber are Heli-Arc welded vapor tight to prevent fume infiltration and buildup of flammable materials between the chamber walls. The unit includes five (5) 304 stainless steel slotted shelves with rolled fronts for ease of product loading. Each shelf is capable of holding a 75lb product load.

Blue M is located in New Columbia, PA, owned by Thermal Product Solutions.

The press release is available in its original form here.

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Biotech Company Acquires Orthopedic “All-In-One” Kit Manufacturer

August 14, 2019 / MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS

A biotech integrated healthcare holding company focusing on patient care acquired a manufacturer of specialty orthopedic surgery products and tools.

Generex Biotechnology Corporation has completed the acquisition of multi-million dollar Pantheon Medical – Foot & Ankle, a manufacturer of an “all-in-one”, orthopedic integrated kit that includes plates, screws, and tools required for surgeons and podiatrists conducting foot and ankle surgeries.

Travis H. Bird, CEO of Pantheon Medical said, “We have built Pantheon Medical with a commitment to providing our surgeon customers with the highest quality surgical implants and tools in an integrated surgical kit for foot and ankle surgeries. Our standard “All-in-One” kits provide surgeons with an integrated kit of the implants, plates, screws and clips to perform 80% of their surgeries, and the kits can be customized for physician preference, offering convenience and performance at an economic price. We expect that Generex and the NuGenerex MSO will benefit greatly from our partnership and we look forward to bringing our FDA-cleared line of surgical products to the network.”

“We are happy to close the acquisition of Pantheon as we expand our surgical product portfolio that is focused on providing our MSO network with the surgical implants and kits that they routinely utilize in their orthopedic and podiatric practices. Pantheon not only adds immediate revenues and profits to the NuGenerex family of companies, but also brings significant upside opportunities for new FDA-approved product introductions over the next several years,” stated Joe Moscato, CEO of Generex.

Pantheon Medical – Foot & Ankle began operations in 2014 and has manufactured a line of FDA cleared orthopedic products. Over the next three years, the company will be developing and submitting several new product lines to the FDA, which will include cannulated surgical screws, surgical staples, and a proprietary Hammertoe System.

Photo Credit: medicaldevice-network.com

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Irish Heat Treat Equipment Manufacturer Incorporates EDM Technology

June 7, 2019 / MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS

Source: Machines4sale.com

A design and manufacturing company from southern Ireland recently acquired two pieces of equipment that allow them to better serve the heat treating world.

Ceramicx, a designer and manufacturer of ceramic infrared heating elements and complete turnkey infrared heating systems and ovens for industrial and commercial applications, recently purchased an Excetek wire EDM machine and an EDM hole drill from Warwick Machine Tools.

Ceramicx products and systems serve a number of industries, including medical, automotive, and aerospace. For such customers, they carry out processes requiring the use of controlled “radiant” heat, such as thermoforming, preforming, pressure forming, welding, non-contact drying, spot heating.

Founded by Frank and Gráinne Wilson in 1992, the company now employs 65 individuals.

Frank Wilson, Ceramicx Managing Director/Founder promotes his company's Excetek machines (Source: Ceramicx). — Frank Wilson, managing director/founder of Ceramicx showcases his company’s Excetek machines (Source: Ceramicx).

“We are application focused, so we use a little R and a big D to develop a working solution not just research a potential option.” – Frank Wilson

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Heat Treatment of Medical Device Fasteners

August 13, 2016 / FEATURED NEWS, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS

Source: Fastener-World.com

Fasteners are used extensively throughout the medical device industry (e.g., dental & orthopedic implants,

instruments), utilizing literally hundreds of different shapes and styles to keep the assemblies intact. Even though the components in the medical devices are small or even tiny, when a fastener fails, the device will almost always fail as well. The correct fastener ensures that the device goes together andstays together for the intended life of the assembly, and that the device performs as desired. The right fastener can reduce the

overall cost of a medical device and improve the quality of the entire assembly. Medical devices fall into two broad categories, surgical/non-implant devices and implantable devices.

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Bodycote Greenville Open for Business

July 19, 2016 / BRAZING, FEATURED NEWS, HEAT TREAT NEWS INDUSTRIES

Bodycote, the world’s largest thermal processing services provider, is pleased to announce that its new plant in Greenville, South Carolina is open for business. The facility is now ready to process metal and alloy parts that require brazing or vacuum heat treating services.

The new Greenville facility primarily serves the Southeast region’s manufacturers and their supply chains in the aerospace, defence, energy and medical industries. The plant is expected to receive Nadcap accreditation by the end of 2016, offering quality assurance based on stringent auditing standards for the aerospace and defence industries. Bodycote intends to offer additional services from the facility in the future in response to customer demand.

This investment is part of Bodycote’s further expansion in the Southeast USA. Bodycote is committed to offering world-class heat treating and specialist technology services and is investing in improvements as part of an ongoing strategy to provide the best possible capabilities, mix and geographical network to better serve customers.

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What the Medical Industry Can Learn from the Aerospace Industry

July 12, 2016 / FEATURED NEWS, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS, TITANIUM PROCESSING

Source: mdtmag.com

Heat treatment standards are stricter in the aerospace industry than in the medical industry where lives are on the line. This doesn’t make sense and something is being done about it.

Click here to read more about how Bob Hill, President of Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania believes the medical industry could benefit from adopting quality standards from the aerospace industry.

Author: Bob Hill, President, Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania

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3D Printing, Ultrasonic Milling Medical Orthopedic Devices

June 6, 2016 / FEATURED NEWS, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS

Source: Today’s Medical Developments

“Our Austofix product design engineers, working with IPAS, were able to innovate within a flexible design and manufacturing process. This environment was key to our ability to take the prototype to market within such a short timeframe,” he said. “There are key components of the plate manufactured using 3D printing, this enabled us to create a complex design without the costs associated with traditional manufacturing. It also enabled us to bring the device to market quickly.”

Austofix has a number of products including a range of stainless steel and titanium surgical nails, which it exports to the Middle East and China.”

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Cost of Failure: Thermal Treatments Reduce Medical Device Liability

March 1, 2016 / MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, TITANIUM PROCESSING

Source: SME, Manufacturing Engineering

Medical device industry expert witness, John McCloy, founder of Engineered Assurance, discusses what medical device manufacturers need to do to help minimize liability. Thermal processes are among the items discussed.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Springs

February 1, 2016 / FEATURED NEWS, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT NEWS

[Best of the Web] Source: Machine Design

We’ve come a long way since Henry Ford first declared “You can have any color, so long as it’s black.” Nowadays, we expect nothing less than the ability to customize everything from our TV schedule to our mobile phones; personalization and customization are king and springs are no exception.

Read more about the past, present and future of springs including how graphene will play a part.

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