Precision Coating Company, Inc products

The clear, translucent oxide of MICRALOX Lumina provides a perfect balance of breakthrough chemical resistance and design flexibility for medical device applications. Whether left natural, or dyed one of nine vivid colors, MICRALOX Lumina coatings achieves 16X the resistance in a hot alkaline strip test compared to Type II decorative anodizing. Unlike conventional anodizing and hard coat, the partially crystalline anodic coatings of MICRALOX Lumina hold up over a life-time of regular cleaning and sterilization without fading, chalking, or corroding.

When maximum performance for strong alkaline cleaning is critical to quality, MICRALOX Ultra provides 50X the chemical resistance compared to decorative Type II anodizing. Aluminum parts coated with MICRALOX Ultra can withstand high-pH cleaning and sterilization protocols commonly used in European markets. MICRALOX Ultra coated parts can also withstand many other aggressive environments that would otherwise strip conventional anodic coatings and subject the parts to extensive corrosion.

Precision Coating applies medical grade PTFE to devices used in interventional cardiology procedures focused on catheter-based treatment of structural heart diseases. Catheterization involves the insertion of a sheath into a peripheral artery or vein and cannulating the heart under X-ray visualization. A typical procedure would involve the deployment of stents and balloons to care for an acute myocardial infarction.

A long metal tube, a hypotube is a critical component in interventional cardiology devices as well as raw material for needles. PTFE coatings are applied to hypotubes of various lengths and diameters. Precision Coating has over 25 years of experience coating interventional cardiology devices.

Typical devices coated in interventional cardiology procedures are guide wires and core wires. PTFE provides low friction to a wire allowing for ease of insertion of a catheter and high release (non-stick) to prevent blood from clotting on the wire. Wire sizes range from 0.013” to 0.022” diameter with coating tolerances from 0.0002” to 0.0007”.