Thermal Processing Solutions for Heat Treated Medical Instruments and Components
Sun Steel Treating provides a complete range of metallurgical engineering solutions ideal for the cutting-edge medical sector. Our heat treated medical instruments and components are enhanced to exhibit higher strength, improved surface hardness, and resistance to corrosion. These material properties are combined with superior surface finishes suited for sterile healthcare applications.
Sun Steel’s team of engineers draw upon the newest innovations in materials science to provide the medical industry with uniquely optimized thermal processing and surface treating solutions. Our heat treated medical devices and components are enhanced to meet every performance demand that you require.
Heat Treatment Services and Surface Hardening Solutions for Precision Medical Devices
Sun Steel Treating’s Ionitriding® is the solution for medical industry equipment industry providers worldwide. Our trademarked ion nitriding process enhances your medical devices, tools, and components with an improved resistance to rust, corrosion, and wear, combined with a higher fatigue strength for maximum service life. We have experience in specialized heat treatment services for a wide range of steel medical tools and components, including:
- Dental Tools and Toothcare Instruments
- Dental Implants
- Surgical Tools
- General Hygienic Devices
- Other Critical Healthcare Equipment
Plasma Nitriding for Forged Medical Instruments
Metal forging and hot-forming applications are commonly faced with expensive tooling repairs that require costly downtime and further disruptions to the production line. Our trademarked ion nitriding process gives medical equipment providers a low-temperature, environmentally friendly solution that produces high-strength, wear-resistant cases for medical equipment.
Ion Nitriding to Enhance the Strength and Durability of Medical Equipment
The forging process subjects production equipment to extreme heat and stress, causing wear and tear on even the most durable industrial steel tooling. Even case-hardened steels and conventionally nitrided components can quickly wear out when they are utilized in high-volume commercial forging projects. Naturally, worn tooling leads to complex maintenance procedures and costly downtime in your production.
Innovative Metallurgical Engineering Solutions for Cutting-Edge Medical Components
Sun Steel Treating provides complete metallurgical engineering services that are designed to enhance both the performance and longevity of high-tech medical devices and equipment utilized in today’s state-of-the-art healthcare field.
Ion Nitrided Medical Equipment
Our IonWear® thermochemical process improves the strength, hardness, and abrasion resistance of precision medical instruments. This innovative heat treatment service creates a ceramic-like structure on the surface of virtually any steel products including healthcare tools and medical devices.
Vacuum Hardening for Medical Devices
Our vacuum hardened medical equipment is stronger and more resistant to wear and corrosion when compared to untreated products. The vacuum hardening process enhances quality while preserving the treated products’ surface chemistry, making it ideal for sterile medical applications.
Metal Normalizing
Our metal normalizing process homogenizes the grain structure of steel medical instruments. This heat treatment service is often performed in conjunction with other metallurgical engineering processes to preserve the optimum grain structure required for the reliable manufacturing of precision medical instruments.
Steam Treated Steel Medical Components
Steam treated steel medical instruments are stronger, more consistent, and can offer a longer service life. The process achieves maximum strength through high heat combined with a controlled application of steam. Steam treating also creates an oxide layer on the surface, which enhances some medical instruments’ ability to retain lubricants.
Steel Stress Relieving
Stress relieved medical instruments are more consistent in quality and reliable. Essentially, the stress relieving process removes any residual stresses and distortions that are present within the medical component’s grain structure.
Mirror Polished Steel Medical Tools and Equipment
Sun Steel provides mirror-like polishing services for precision medical instruments and healthcare tools. Our specialized metal polishing solutions can also strip away surface impurities – a requirement for many tools that are used in sterile environments.
Annealed Medical Equipment
Our annealed medical instruments are more malleable, allowing for ease of subsequent machining operations. Annealing also prevents brittleness from occurring within delicate medical components, thus offering a more reliable product.
Metal Straightening Services
Sun Steel operates an in-house atmospherically-controlled metal straightening department perfect for the production of precision medical components. Our metal straightening services include press, hammer, flame, peen, and vibro peening, giving you numerous versatile metalworking options for complex medical devices.
Specialized Heat Treatment Services for Precision Medical Equipment
Sun Steel Treating can provide superior medical equipment and devices through our complete range of uniquely engineered metallurgical treatments. Established in South Lyon, Michigan in 1958, our company has decades of experience in assisting medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers with superior heat treated equipment and metal finishes.