With about 25 years of experience as a supplier of components (e.g. stents) for medical devices, MeKo is the ideal partner for medical device companies.
MeKo offers a wide range of services - from selecting the most suitable material to cleanroom packaging:
CAD / CAM
- Import of your design:
.dwg, .dxf, .step, .iges - Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Material / Tube Selection
- Material of highest quality:
316L (316LVM), L605, Phynox, MP35N, - VASCULOY®: Ni-free alloy
- NiTi
- Resorbable materials: Mg, RESOLOY®, PLLA, ...
- More than 2,000 different tube lots on stock
- High-end laser systems
- Precision, burr free laser cutting
- Tolerances less than ± 5 µm (± 0.0002“)
- Spot welding and seam welding
- Helium tight
- In-process quality control
- Special equipment developed in-house
- Exceptional smooth stent surfaces
- Round edges
- Improved corrosion resistance
- Extremely fine grain sizes achievable
- For CoCr: LowElast process for tight control of mechanical properties
- For NiTi: Shape setting and Af temperature setting, DSC and BFR measuring
- 100 % visual inspection of all implants
- More than 60 special high-end microscopes - visual and automatic
- High resolution microscopes
- Automated measuring systems
- Confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM)
- Tensile testing
- Radial strength testing of stents
- Cross section and grain analysis
- Surface roughness
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS)
- Bend and Free Recovery (BFR)
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
- Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)
- Potentiodynamic tests
- Degradation tests of bioresorbable materials
- ...