MEDICAL
Implants Industry
EPTAM’s market focus has long been the medical industry. We meet a variety of demands including the rapidly growing and high-demand medical implant market. We know our work ultimately affects patients’ lives. Our team is built with dedication to ensure we have a positive impact on those individuals.
As the largest plastics manufacturing plant and separate facilities to meet each of the unique demands of this market, EPTAM is well-positioned to be your contract manufacturer of choice. We have designed unique divisions within EPTAM to solely service the various medical industry requirements.
We service a number of implant needs from orthopedic to heart and interventional surgeries. Our orthopedic work is market-leading with constant innovation surrounding rapid development and testing, improved operational efficiency – even realized through better design for manufacturing practices, and our automation in quality control and assurance.
Our devices help address the clinical practice needs for:
- Hip and knee joint replacements
- Spinal, osteosynthesis and soft tissue repair implants (and their instrumentation)
Diverse manufacturing capabilities provide a range of available implant grade materials including exotic materials such as cobalt-chromium, titanium, stainless steel alloys, ceramic, PEEK and highly linked PE polymers, as well as PLLA and TCP.
UHMW-PE® Machining for Medical Applications
UHMW-PE® devices need to meet the growing trend toward minimally invasive surgery. Medical devices manufactured with UHMW-PE® allow freedom of design to meet challenges with low profiles, superior abrasion resistance, and flexibility. Due to their superior physical and mechanical properties, cleanliness, and consistency, medically implantable grades of UHMW-PE® have become the materials of choice for articulating surfaces, helping restore a higher quality of life to millions of patients worldwide.
Some Of Our Work
Ready to Scale and Meet Demand
When you’re in market or going to market with a product you need to be assured your contract manufacturer can source, produce, and deliver on-time – every time. EPTAM has a unique structure that benefits our clients. Our team will add equipment when any single piece of equipment reaches 70% capacity. This means, we are ready to fulfill all your orders.
See all our capabilities:
- Plastics Machining
- Plastic Injection Molding
- Plastic Additive Printing
- Metal Machining
- Metal Micro-Machining
- Metal Additive Printing
Important Distinctions with EPTAM:
- Clean, Climate-Controlled Medical Manufacturing
- Cellular Manufacturing Environment
- Plant automation includes station Live Tracking and GUI Workstations throughout the plan for barcode checking, quality assurance, and much more.
- Microblast Deburring
- Sodium-bicarbonate-based micro-blast stations ensure critical components are "Burr Free" at customer delivery. EPTAM's proven experience with the latest machining and deburring techniques ensure burr-free, clean parts to the highest standards.
- Marking - Whether it is serial numbers, part numbers, text, or customer-supplied-logos, marking guarantees complete traceability of instruments and implants. Enhanced Marking Capability includes uni-glaze paints, machining and laser.
- To support our unique manufacturing capabilities, EPTAM is DS/EN ISO:13485:2016 Certified, FDA #3005144609 Registered, has completed a customer 21 CFR audit, and has been customer surveyed and certified to produce polymer implants.
- Dedicated Medical Manufacturing Center AND dedicated enclosed area for medical manufacturing only that is segregated from other manufacturing exclusively for machining of polymer instruments and implantables.
- Dry-Machining Technology - no coolants on polymers