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Medical Device Coatings Services
Armoloy medical coatings offer exceptional biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, and wear protection, ensuring optimal performance and longevity of medical instruments and devices.
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Medical Device Coatings for Outstanding Performance
Medical coatings and plating are vital in enhancing the safety, performance, and longevity of medical instruments and devices. These biocompatible coatings are inert and non-magnetic and provide excellent protection against corrosion while reducing wear and microbial contamination—critical in medical, surgical, laboratory, and clean room environments.
In addition to extending the lifespan of medical tools, these coatings improve performance by reducing friction and facilitating easier sterilization processes. Compliance with stringent industry standards such as USP 10993-10, 10993-6, and 10993-11 ensures that Armoloy’s medical device coatings meet the highest quality and safety requirements, making them essential in modern healthcare applications.
Medical Coatings & Surface Treatments
Developed by highly-trained coating professionals following strict process controls, Armoloy’s precise, biocompatible chromium coatings enhance the longevity, safety and performance of medical devices and instruments.
An Armoloy application engineer can assist you in finding the best coating solution for your medical application. Request a sample today.
Benefits of Medical Plating Services from Armoloy
Biocompatibility
Medical coatings are certified safe for use in medical devices and instruments, as well as clean-room applications
Corrosion resistance
Protects against corrosion caused by frequent sterilization and laser marking, maintaining a like-new appearance
High wear resistance
Makes medical tools more durable with a hard, scratch-resistant surface that prevents wear and fatigue
Maintains cutting edges
Keeps surgical instruments sharp and effective
Smooth sliding surfaces
Improves the performance of parts that slide or roll by reducing friction
No sharp edge buildup
Minimizes dimensional change, ensuring the precise fit and function of medical devices
Antimicrobial surface
Naturally eliminates the buildup of harmful bacteria, reducing microbial contamination
Eliminates galling, fretting & spalling
Stops everyday wear and tear issues, ensuring medical devices last longer
Reduces metallic debris & particulate matter
Minimizes metal particles, keeping the environment cleaner and safer
Easy removal & reapplication
Coatings can be easily removed and reapplied, simplifying the maintenance and reconditioning of medical tools
Chemical & temperature resistance
Withstands caustic sterilization procedures, maintaining its protective properties and ensuring longevity
Hydrophobic
Repels water, preventing moisture buildup and enhancing corrosion resistance
Why Choose Armoloy?
Start-to-Finish Surface Solutions
- Armoloy stands out with our fully staffed metallurgical laboratory dedicated to research and development. We offer comprehensive surface coating services, guiding you from initial consultation through design, application, and final quality checks to ensure optimal results for your project.
Innovative Process Development
- Our innovation center focuses on developing and validating repeatable and reliable processes, which we can then implement at any process fulfillment location. This ensures consistent, high-quality coatings no matter where your project is completed, maintaining the same high standards across the globe.
Global Fulfillment and Logistics
- With fulfillment centers located around the world, we optimize logistics to ensure your coatings are delivered on time and maintain consistent quality, no matter where you are. Our extensive global network allows us to efficiently serve clients worldwide.
Process Accreditations at Armoloy
Armoloy’s medical coatings meet rigorous industry standards and certifications, ensuring the highest quality and safety for medical devices and instruments. Our coatings have met the rigorous standards for the following accreditations:
- AS9100D
- ISO 9001:2015
- ISO 10993-1
- ISO 14001:2015
- ISO 19011
- NADCAP
- NAMSA
- REACH Compliance
- RoHS Compliance
- Toxikon
- WEEE Compliance
Certifications at Armoloy
Armoloy’s medical coatings meet rigorous industry standards and certifications, ensuring the highest quality and safety for medical devices and instruments. Our coatings are tested and certified to the following specifications:
- AMS2460 SAE, Plating, Chromium
- USP Class VI
- Tripartite/ISO
- STERIS SYSTEM 1
- SAE AMS2406 | AMS-QQ-C-320, Chromium Plating (Electrodeposited)
- SAE AMS2438 Plating, Chromium Thin, Hard, Dense Deposit
- Steam Autoclave
- STERIS EtO
- STERRAD Sterilization
Medical Coatings Applications
Armoloy biochrome coatings enhance the functionality of various medical instruments and devices, including:
- Clean room applications
- Dental reamers
- Endoscopic cutters
- Laboratory environments
- Medical instruments & devices
- Medical packaging
- Mobile medical devices
- Orthopedic tooling
- Surgical tools
- Veterinary surgical tools
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Frequently Asked Questions
Many are Armoloy-coated. Although single-use devices will only be utilized once, doctors, dentists, and the patients who rely on them need the item’s performance to be maximized. For many types of medical instruments, that means applying a biocompatible chromium coating.
Certification to many industry and supplier specifications is available, including AMS 2438 and AMS 2460, depending on the location. In addition, the Armoloy network has fulfillment centers with Quality Management Systems accredited to NADCAP, ISO 9001, and AS9100 requirements.
Our highly experienced staff can support all aspects of the product lifecycle including the design, validation, manufacturing, and volume production phases.
Application engineers can assist with product design by helping to select the best coating for each application, ensuring that base metal selection provides the best combination of cost, performance, and manufacturability, and that critical design features can be reliably coated. In addition, we work with engineering partners that can provide:
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- Finite element analysis
- Thermal analysis
- Computational fluid dynamics
Our fully equipped laboratory can assist with product validation by testing for wear resistance, corrosion resistance, coating and base metal hardness, and on staff metallurgical support can perform detailed failure analysis to aid in troubleshooting if problems should arise.
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