Great ideas for the practitioner of high technology, high performance assembly. Looking at: Medical Device Manufacture Selected for: More Efficient Medical Disposable Device Assembly DYMAX has just released a new MD Medical Device Adhesives Selector Guide. Included is a comprehensive adhesive/substrate selector chart. A typical properties guide offers several standard formulations, each with a unique set of characteristics, to meet most of your bonding, processing, biocompatibility and product life cycle requirements. Design considerations for common disposable device applications are highlighted to help you optimise device quality, and the efficiency of your assembly process. A selection of UV curing equipment, which is matched to the adhesives’ cure chemistry and the application requirements, is presented to simplify process development and validation. Biocompatibility tests performed on DYMAX MD® Medical Device Adhesives are listed. Specific DYMAX adhesives are featured for catheter and guidewire bonding, syringe assembly, anesthesia masks, resuscitator bags, breathing circuits, and medical optical assembly applications. For the designer with a new or unique disposable device application, the multi-purpose bonding chart quickly shows you the range of products available, their technical data and all of the substrates to which they adhere. Most products shown bond well to a number of plastic substrates, including dissimilar substrates such as metal, glass and ceramic. While most formulations cure instantly upon exposure to long wave UVA light, the line of MEDI-CURE 222 Series Cyanoacrylates is offered for bonding opaque substrates and for applications where aggressive adhesion to rubber is needed. These USP Class VI and ISO 10993 biocompatible adhesives are offered in a number of viscosity grades, from thin wicking grades to thixotropic gels, to simplify your choice of dispensing options. The benefits of ultraviolet light curing technology for device assembly and processing are described, including on demand cures in seconds, the wide range of available product viscosities, unlimited pot life, aesthetically acceptable, water-clear bond lines, and fluorescing grades for easy, in-line quality inspection. We can send you a printed copy of the new Selector Guide, or it can be downloaded. Unit 17 Station Field Industrial Estate, Banbury Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 1JD, ENGLAND Tel: +44 (0)1865 842842     Fax: +44 (0)1865 842172 e-mail: info@intertronics.co.uk    www.intertronics.co.uk Read our web log Please don't send any more of these great ideas, thanks!