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Karin McQuillian

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Economical system solutions for implants, surgical instruments and dental products

Medical technology places the highest quality demands, not only on the end product, but also on the production processes.

Tyrolit provides you with highest performance tools and process consultants with which you can safely put your certified or validated machining processes into practice. As a global system provider, our solution portfolio includes cutting and grinding tools as well as finishing tools for machining artificial knee joints, hip joints, implants, hypodermic needles, surgical instruments such as scissors and scalpels, and dental products.

Our high-performance tools enable you to achieve reproducible, consistent quality in high-precision machining of a wide range of materials such as titanium, nitinol, cobalt-chromium and stainless steel alloys or ceramics.

4:30 min

Machining time

The machining time for profile grinding a knee implant with a GENIS-2 grinding wheel from Tyrolit is 4:30 minutes.

0.005µm

Surface finish

Artificial hip joint implants require a surface finish of Ra <0.005µm. This is generated with pre-polishing sleeves from Tyrolit.

0.23 mm

Diameter

Hypodermic needles for insulin pens have a diameter of 0.23 mm. The tip is grinded burr-free with our grinding wheels.

235,200

Hip surgeries

In 2020, 235,200 hip surgeries were performed in Germany. Tyrolit supplies tools for honing hip implants of all common materials.

Pioneering work

Our solutions for medical technology

The surface quality and geometry requirements of orthopedic metal alloys are very high.

With Tyrolit, you have a partner for process-stable cutting, grinding and finishing applications at your side to significantly reduce machining times and process steps. Whether cool grinding for knee or hip prostheses, efficient scalpel sharpening or perfect finishing of complex surfaces – Tyrolit offers you a comprehensive range of applications. Your advantages:

Globally active partner with subsidiaries worldwide
Certifiable, high-precision system solutions for reproducible quality
High efficiency and increased productivity
Global and local team of application engineers
High delivery capability

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Products

Popular products in medical technology

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COOL CUT

Flexible grinding tools in resinoid bond for medical cutting tools

Face grinding

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Silicon carbide grinding tools in self-sharpening resin bonding systems

for the machining of hypodermic needles

Fine grinding

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Flexible elastic grinding tools with resinoid bond

for finishing implants and tools

Fine grinding

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Resin and vitrified bonded grinding tools

for machining stainless steel hip joints

Honing / Finishing

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Vitrified bonded diamond grinding tools

for the machining of ceramic hip joints

Honing / Finishing

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GENIS 2 CF double grinding wheel

Vitrified bonded CBN grinding tools with composite cores for external cylindrical grinding

External cylindrical grinding

Customized

Solutions for the highest demands

Successful companies expect process know-how and comprehensive consulting services from their partners.

Together with the customer, our application engineers analyze the task at hand, create customized solution proposals and implement them on site on the machine.

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