Oerlikon’s dedicated portfolio of materials designed for healthcare innovation.
From orthopedic implants to surgical tools, MetcoMed™ powders are engineered for high-performance additive manufacturing of medical components. Designed to meet stringent industry standards, these materials offer excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and consistency across production batches. Suitable for laser powder bed fusion and other AM processes, MetcoMed™ powders support the development of reliable and innovative medical solutions.
Titanium is biocompatible, lightweight, and extremely strong, making it an ideal material for dental and orthopedic implants. Titanium – 6 Aluminium – 4 Vanadium, also known as Ti 64, is a well-established and industry-approved alloy for Additive Manufacturing. Oerlikon’s MetcoMed™ Ti64 G23-C, is specifically designed for medical applications, providing high load-bearing capacity, good ductility, excellent biocompatibility, and good corrosion resistance.
The material offers a tensile strength of over 1000 MPa at 10% elongation and has been optimized for 3D printing using the laser beam powder bed fusion (LB-PBF) process. It provides a direct drop-in feedstock solution for most LB-PBF machine brands.
Cobalt-Chromium alloys are widely used for various orthopedic and dental implants. In particular, Cobalt – 28 Chromium – 6 Molybdenum (CoCrMo) is one of the most used alloys for tooth implants and total hip replacement (THR) due to the alloy's superior corrosion qualities, antibacterial properties, improved cell adhesion, and potential for reducing inflammation markers.
CoCrMo material is optimized for the LB-PBF process, offering high strength, excellent ductility, and biocompatibility for medical implant applications. The material, MetcoMed™ CoCrMo F75-A, provides a tensile strength of 1050 MPa and 35% elongation despite its low carbon content, which is desired for an implant material.
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