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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

If We Can't Test It ....

We often get asked to help our customers with specific tests that they are struggling to do with their existing test facilities. Where we are not able to offer equipment to meet their needs, we have many customers around the world that offer services for contract testing or research. Find out more on a sample of these customers.

BDC Laboratories provides custom test fixture design, as well as both GLP and non-GLP testing services to the medical device industry encompassing both bench and durability studies. In addition to these comprehensive testing and R&D support solutions, BDC offers silicone mock vessels for device evaluations. Stents and stent grafts, heart valves, and catheters are a small subset of BDCs expertise in implantable technologies.

Confirmed LLC provides medical device testing and characterization services, including corrosion testing per ASTM F2129, Nitinol device transformation temperature testing per ASTM F2082, tensile testing per ASTM F2516, fatigue testing/FEA services, and custom device-specific test development. Confirmed LLC has significant expertise in the development, manufacturing and testing of Nitinol-based medical devices, as well as broader expertise with 300-series stainless steel, MP35N, L605, other Co-Cr alloys, Ti, and Ti-based alloys. Their mission is to not just give you data, but to provide the technical expertise you need to achieve your development goals.

CRITT MTDS, (Centre Régional d’Innovation et de Transfert de Technologie - Matériaux Dépôts et Traitements de Surface), based in Charleville Mézières & Nogent, France, are providers of medical device testing and characterization services COFRAC-Accredited Laboratory for work area n°136 on Orthopaedic Implants. Their capability in material characterization has been developed to various standards for Stainless Materials, Ti, CO-CR according to various standards like ISO 5832; for ceramics, for Polymers, PEEK and for porous coatings. They also offer tests of medical devices according to various standards such as ISO 7206 and ISO 14242 for hip implants; ISO 14243 and ISO 14879-1 for knee implants; ASTM F2077, ASTM 1798, and ASTM F1717 for spinal devices ASTM F543 on metallic screws; and ISO 14801 on dental implants. Their broad capability covers the development cycle from raw material characterization, process qualification, through to final product validation.

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