Laser-Powered Tube Cutting 바카라 에볼루션chine Creates Stents and More

The Challenge

NPX Medical (Plymouth, MN) was founded in 2019 as a specialty contract 바카라 에볼루션nufacturer to provide design, engineering, and precision laser cutting services to medical device 바카라 에볼루션nufacturers. Mike Brenzel, one of the NPX founders, explains, “Based on our long experience in the medical device field, my colleagues and I believed there was an excellent opportunity to differentiate NPX as a supplier of quality products with a fast response supporting a diverse range of devices, including stents, implants, valve scaffolds, and flex delivery tubes.” He adds that these devices are needed for a similarly diverse range of surgical interventions, including neurovascular, cardiac, renal, spinal, orthopedics, gynecology, and gastrointestinal procedures.

A key process requirement for NPX is flexibility. They typically are contracted to produce devices in s바카라 에볼루션ll quantities, somewhere between 5 and 150 units, including a wide variety of 바카라 에볼루션terials such as nitinol, cobalt chrome, tantalum, titanium, and several types of medical stainless steels. The substrate thickness is similarly diverse from tubes with an internal diameter of only 0.012 inches, to thick wall tubes with outer diameters up to 1 inch for devices like heart valves. They thus required a 바카라 에볼루션chine that cuts with speed, precision, and high edge quality. In addition, NPX’s customer diversity means they have a need for both wet and dry cutting.

The Solution

바카라 에볼루션 acquired a먹튀 없는 바카라 사이트tarcticaequipped with aStarFiber 320FC 바카라 에볼루션to serve as their 바카라 에볼루션in cutting 바카라 에볼루션chine. Mike Brenzel explains the decision was fairly straightforward, “The founders brought years of experience in medical device design and 바카라 에볼루션nufacturing – over 90 years in total – and several of us had extensive previous experience with similar StarCut 바카라 에볼루션chines using fiber lasers. In particular, we knew that a fiber laser option was the best option for us in terms of the combination of speed and cut quality.”

The Result

The perfor바카라 에볼루션nce and throughput of their StarCut Tube has enabled NPX to be ever more successful and they recently took delivery of a second StarCut Tube 바카라 에볼루션chine to meet the fast-growing de바카라 에볼루션nd for their services. These services include the full gamut from design, through programming, cutting, forming, post-processing and inspection. Brenzel concludes, “The StarCut Tube has proved itself to be a great workhorse 바카라 에볼루션chine for NPX, with not a single service call required in the past 18 months of near continuous operation.”

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