Shop Profile: Ross Peterson, ProPlate
Description
Ross Peterson is the Chief Business Development Officer of ProPlate, an Anoka, Minnesota, company that finishes specialty items for the medical and surgical industry.
In this podcast, Ross explains how ProPlate works closely with the medical community to come up with new finishes and coatings for critical medical parts.
For example, ProPlate spent over a year developing a process to finish neodymium iron boron magnets, which can be up to 10 times stronger than the best ceramic magnets. Surgeons were hoping to implant some of the NdFeB magnets into newborns to help them with serious medical conditions that risked their ability to survive.
Due to the base magnet material's porosity and the magnets' reactivity to acidic and basic chemistries, ProPlate faced a difficult challenge in designing a plating process for the magnets. Still, after a long R&D process, they met the requirements.
Read the full article at https://finishingandcoating.com/index.php/plating/2118-proplate-motivated-by-success-of-lifesaving-medical-coatings
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