What goes into developing coatings for medical devices? What drives the process? Understanding the factors that motivate manufacturers to seek out new and better coatings – such as our new GlideMed™ PTFE-free coating – and the processes that bring them to fruition can help medical device manufacturers and design engineers appreciate the big picture. Many...
With more than six decades of coating expertise, the Surface Solutions Group team is often asked questions about our medical grade coatings and their application to a variety of medical devices and components. Here are the answers to some of the more common medical device coating questions. Q: What is PTFE coating? A: PTFE, or Polytetrafluoroethylene,...
Surface Solutions Group contributed editorial content to a recent Medical Product Outsourcing (MPO) magazine article about the thrombectomy device market. Our subject matter expert, George Osterhout, SSG President, focused on trends in PTFE coated guidewires. Here is a summary of our contributed content, as well as other guidewire coating trends we’re observing. With cardiovascular disease...
