Custom rubber and silicone molded parts

Hiawatha Rubber's expertise includes the manufacture of custom rollers for medical applications. These include rollers for CAT scanning systems, dry laser imagers, defibrillators, and a range of medical systems requiring rubber rollers and assemblies with related components. Unusual applications are solved with special surfaces that range from ultra smooth (polished) to extremely coarse (crepe), and custom formulated and designed materials. Manufacturing these rollers can include services such as bearing assembly, adding plastic or metal gears, drilling and tapping components, precision journal grinding, bonding plastics-to-rubber and rubbers-to-metal, and assembling segmented rollers.

Hiawatha Rubber Co., 1700 67th Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55430, (763) 566-0900, info.ims.ca/6177-250, Booth 457
Circle 250

See micro-abrasive blasting in action

Micro-abrasive blasting uniformly mixes micron-sized particles with dry air and propels them from a small nozzle at high velocity to clean, cut, deburr, and texture a variety of surfaces. The technique can clean unwanted materials or oxidation from vascular stents, remove polymer coatings from catheters and delicate guide wires, and texture and deburr tubular components. It can also be used to restore surface finishes to mold cavities and clean and texture implantable devices including titanium bone screws, prostheses, cardiac pacemakers, and defibrillators.

Comco Inc., 2151 N. Lincoln St, Burbank, CA 91504, (818) 841-5500, info.ims.ca/6177-251, Booth 1721
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