Coventry-based
Advanced Grinding Solutions Ltd (AGS) will be exhibiting at
Medtec Ireland 2024 in Galway, Ireland, 25-26 September 2024 (Stand 49). Chris Boraston, AGS managing director, said that this promises to be a very important exhibition for the company and for its principals that manufacture machines and associated products for the medical industry.
He added: “We have long since been a major supplier of grinding and finishing equipment to the medical sector for a huge variety of applications including the manufacture of artificial knee and hip joints, bone drills and reamers, wires and needles, and many other components. We have well over 100 machines in use in Ireland that continues to be one of the largest markets for machinery for manufacturing medical parts of all kinds and we have supplied many of the very large OEMs in Eire as well as their first tier sub-suppliers such as Smithstown Light Engineering.
“At
Medtec Ireland 2024 we will be showcasing the many advantages that we can bring to medical part manufacturers including multi-axis grinding machines from Rollomatic, Internal and external grinding machines from Danobat, centreless grinding machines from Tschudin, dry electro polishing machines from GPA Innova, Deburring machines from Gerber, Grinding wheels from Krebs & Riedel and high-performance filtration systems from Comat.
Rollomatic have a large number of end users in Eire within the medical sector that are involved in the manufacture of drills, reamers, burrs and other medical tools and have recently launched the Grindsmart 630RW grinding machine that incorporates a six-axis Fanuc robot for the automatic loading of tools of up to 500mm in length.
Ceramic femoral partsMeanwhile, Danobat has supplied machines for the grinding of ceramic femoral parts such as artificial hip joint ball heads and Tschudin has supplied centreless grinding machines for a variety of medical applications for general tooling, medical wires and tubes, and needle grinding.
With their D-Lyte range of machines, GPA Innova, has many machines in use in Ireland for the polishing of femoral parts such as artificial knee and hip joints and many other parts.
Gerber has supplied various brush based deburring machines for medical parts to companies such as Medartis that are used after a punching, milling or grinding operations to remove micro burrs on components such as bone plates.
Krebs & Riedel manufactures a range of high-speed grinding wheels including CBN wheels for external grinding operations on femoral parts such as artificial knee joints. Comat’s ultra filtration systems are used on turning machines as well as grinding machines such as those made by Rollomatic and Tschudin to ensure that coolant and machines are kept perfectly clean at all times.
AGS will be exhibiting many medical components on its stand that have been manufactured on its wide range of machinery and will have experts on hand to meet with engineers and discuss their medical applications.