Medical Instruments

In summary, surface finishing isn't just about aesthetics; it's about ensuring the functionality, safety, and reliability of medical instruments in their critical role in patient care and healthcare practices.

The benefits of finishing medical instruments by wet blasting

Wet blasting, also known as vapor blasting or aqua blasting, offers several benefits when used for cleaning and preparing medical instruments, including:

• Creation of non-reflective surfaces: Reflections from instrument surfaces during procedures can be an irritating distraction. Wet blasting can produce a surface that minimises unwanted reflections whilst maintaining an optimum Ra surface roughness for sterilisation.
• Reduced surface contamination: Wet blasting significantly reduces dust and airborne particles, creating a cleaner working environment. This is especially important in the medical field, where cleanliness and hygiene are paramount. The process helps maintain the integrity of your instruments and the overall hygiene of your facility.

• Enhanced uniform surface finish: Wet blasting can achieve a consistent surface finish across the entire instrument, enhancing the instrument's aesthetics and functionality. Our automated range of wet blasting machines, ensures excellent repeatability.

• Reduced risk of corrosion: Wet blasting removes corrosion or oxidation from the surface of metal instruments, helping to extend their lifespan and maintain their functionality over time. The inclusion of corrosion inhibitors in the wet blasting process can further help with this.

• Precision and consistency: The wet blasting process allows for fine-tuning of parameters like pressure, media size, and media type, giving manufacturers precise control over the cleaning and surface preparation of medical instruments. In addition to unparalleled process control, automation ensures consistency, so the perfect finish is applied every time to meet the highest quality standards.
• Compliance with regulatory standards: Properly cleaned and prepared medical instruments are essential for meeting regulatory requirements and ensuring patient safety. Wet blasting can aid in meeting these standards by providing a validated and controlled cleaning process.
• Long-lasting results: The thorough cleaning achieved through wet blasting can provide long-lasting results, reducing the need for frequent replacement or maintenance of medical instruments.

Additive manufactured medical instruments

Thanks to recent advances in additive manufacturing (AM), medical instruments are increasingly manufactured using AM technology. Our wet blasting technology is highly suited to finishing AM components in all sorts of different industries including medical instrument manufacturing. Learn more about the advantages of finishing AM components by wet blasting.

Finishing medical instruments by wet blasting helps produce high quality, aesthetic, long-lasting instruments with a perfect Ra surface roughness for sterilisation. It is also a safe and environmentally friendly process when compared with the other type of blast finishing, dry blasting.

Contact us to find out how we can help improve your medical instrument finishing operation.