
Voxel Innovations, specialist in pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM), achieved ISO 13485:2016 certification. Voxel previously achieved AS9100D, including ISO 9001:2015 in January 2023. These certifications allow Voxel to continue its growth, using PECM to produce medical devices and other industries.
PECM is a non-thermal, non-contact material removal method capable of creating small features and superfinished surfaces on metallic parts with high repeatability. Voxel utilizes PECM to produce high-volume, tight-tolerance metal components for the medical device and other industries, including nitinol bone fixtures and microchannel heat exchangers.
Voxel initially developed PECM as a response to engineers struggling to manufacture critical components for high-stress, high temperature-flux environments that require tough-to-machine materials, as material hardness is irrelevant to PECM. PECM can also be utilized to reduce manufacturing costs for high-volume medical devices comprised of tough metal alloys, including nitinol and cobalt-chrome.
Voxel Innovations was founded in 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina by Daniel Herrington, the current CEO. Herrington and his company intend to utilize 13485:2016 certification to expand Voxel’s contract manufacturing business in the medical device market, producing cardiovascular devices, surgical tools, and orthopedic devices.
Additionally, to facilitate this growth, Voxel is also anticipating an expansion into a larger Raleigh facility in early 2024.
Source: Voxel Innovations
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Julie A. Vetalice is ORTHOWORLD's Editorial Assistant. She has covered the orthopedic industry for over 20 years, having joined the company in 1999.