Medical Surface Center Swiss Quality

Quality does not tolerate compromise Overview of processes and services 6 Mechanical processes Chemical processes Electrochemical processes Color anodizing of titanium and titanium alloys - TioCol™ 24 Dark anodizing of titanium & titanium alloys - TioDark™ 28 At the heart of Switzerland, there is a hub of cleanliness. Over the course of a few decades, KKS Ultraschall AG has become an epicenter of ultrasonic cleaning and surface refinement. In 2003, we started offering our entire technological and practical expertise as well as our passion for this field to a global customer base, providing...

Cleanliness requires quality management Order entry via a fully integrated Software solution for tamper-proof, end-to-end recording of target /actual process In the health sector, flawed products can cause grave consequences for both patients and manufacturers. As a medtech business, we are always aware of how Quality does not tolerate compromise important impeccable quality is. Our Medical Surface Center features a state-of-the-art quality management system, which we continue to develop even further Barcode system for optimal process security and data transfer: – Labelling – Identification –...

Overview of processes and services | 7 Tumbling/polishing • Deburring and rounding of edges • Descaling, cleaning • Grinding • Smoothing, polishing, gloss polishing Ultrasonic cleaning • Clean surfaces, down to the pores • Cleaning of the most complicated geometrics, structured, porous surfaces, narrow gaps or blind holes • Custom selected cleaning chemicals • Automatic cleaning process for reproducible results Dry and wet blasting • Texturing, mattening, roughening • Removal of coatings • Cleaning • Densification of boundary areas of metal components to enhance their fatigue-strength Find out...

Core competency cleanliness Collapsing bubble with microjet near a boundary area Ultrasonic cleaning Before and after each surface treatment is carried out, cleaning is required. Ultrasonic cleaning has long been established as a reliable fine cleaning process for this purpose. By using ultrasonic waves in combination with Oscillating bubble Collapsing bubble aqueous media, we achieve highest levels of cleanliness at relatively short cleaning durations, even for components with complex shapes and delicate components This creates millions of microscopic cavitation bubbles with textured, porous...

quality, or even only with demineralized water (highest The ultrasonic generators supply the transducers The resonance radius of the cavitation bubbles quality), which is constant­ y reconditioned. Depending l with two different frequencies of ultrasound for DUAL- as a function of ultrasound frequency on the required amount of ultrasonic power, the frequency ultrasonic cleaning, or MIX-frequency ultrasonic cleaing tanks are equipped with multiple ultrasound cleaning in case of a tank equipped with Resonance radius of the bubble (μm) transducers at the bottom and /or the sides of the tank. transducers...

For quality without compromise By choosing the appropriate geometry and size of abrasives, we can apply finishing to both the inside and Application/use: The medtech industry sector sets the highest standards outside of components in an optimal manner. We mostly use centrifugal disc machines at high rotational speed and accepts no compromises, especially concerning for polishing, which often follows tumbling. The po- the surface quality of implants. The tumbling and polish- lishing media are selected specifically according to the ing processes of our Medical Surface Center guarantee material...

Always first class surfaces and wet iting I 1 V 1 . SZ* I _ ' - - Application/Use: Blasting techniques are important methods for the finishing of surfaces. Regardless of which technique is applied - our Medical Surface Center always achieves first class results by using the appropriate blasting technology, blasting chamber and blasting media. The processes can be abrasive in order to texturize surfaces or to remove coatings, surface irregularities and contaminations. We employ blasting media to roughen the surface of cement-free implants, what facilitates osseointegration. However, we can...

Intensive cleaning and activation Application/use: Removal of titanium relative to pickling Pickling, which we also offer in our Medical Surface Cent- duration and type of pickling er, is a necessary step in the passivation of stainless steels whenever their natural passive layer consisting of mised. This rarely occurs during the manufacturing of implants and medical instruments, which thus usually do not require pickling. Titanium and titanium alloys, however, need to be pickled if electrochemical processes – such as, for example, color anodizing – or a specific material removal are to be carried...

Optimal stability due to roughness Application /use: implants, where it is often used in combination with By etching titanium in our Medical Surface Center, we corundum blasting. The blasting first creates a create a highly roughened component surface, which macro structure, on which a microstructure is created facilitates osseointegration in medical implants. Etching subsequently by means of etching. is a key surface finishing step especially for dental How it works: Etching is a chemical process which dissolves the metal oxide layer and strongly attacks the titanium base material chemically....

Active corrosion protection Application/use: Chemical treatment to prevent corrosion: All stainless steel alloys used in the medtech sector must chromium oxide forms passive layer be resistant to corrosion caused by all ambient media Passivating solution and bodily fluids/tissues. In order to restore the natural passive layer of stainless steel, which is damaged during the manufacturing of implants and medical instruments Stainless steel Stainless steel made from this material, we subject these components to the passivation process in our Medical Surface Center. Chromium oxide Iron oxides The...