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Our hydrophilic coatings provide best-in-class performance with the industry’s lowest particulate counts. Our flexible service model allows you to coat your materials at your production facility or our Contract Coating Services Unit. Your medical device is specifically designed to achieve its intended goal, and our coatings enable your device to perform at the highest level, while maintaining the durability expected for reliable procedures.
At Biocoat, we are focused on researching, developing, manufacturing, and applying the best coatings in the market. By becoming an extension of your team, we are fully dedicated to providing you with a best-in-class experience at every stage of your product’s development and commercial lifecycle.
Our coatings can be applied to almost all substrate materials used in gastrointestinal catheter designs. Our unique coating methods have been successfully used in many applications where other options did not meet the design criteria.
Our coatings can be applied to almost all substrate materials used in gastrointestinal catheter designs. Our unique coating methods have been successfully used in many applications where other options did not meet the design criteria.
At Biocoat, our HYDAK coatings offer best-in-class performance in lubricity, durability, and particulates. Our coatings give you a choice to cure the coatings using either Thermal heat or Ultraviolet (UV) light. The following charts show the results of a series of tests that the Biocoat Research & Development team completed to test the friction, durability, and particulates on commercially available microcatheters to see how our coatings perform compared to other coatings on the market.
In this chart, the Biocoat R&D team purchased seven (7) different commercially available products, three (3) of which were coated with Biocoat’s HYDAK® technology. The Biocoat team measured both the lubricity and durability of each of the microcatheters in an effort to determine where HYDAK® stands in relation to industry competitors. Our testing proves that HYDAK® exhibits best-in-class lubricity and durability results.
In this chart, the Biocoat R&D team purchased seven (7) different commercially available products, three (3) of which were coated with Biocoat’s HYDAK® technology. The Biocoat team measured the number of particulates generated from each of the catheters to determine where HYDAK® stands in relation to industry competitors. Our testing proves that HYDAK® exhibits best-in-class results for low particulates.
To successfully complete the project design, the developing company’s engineering team required a hydrophilic coating on their access catheter for delivering a stent in the upper gastrointestinal tract to assist in drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts adhered to the gastric walls. The coating for this access device needed to be highly lubricious, have good coating coverage and have strong durability.
Biocoat’s team was tasked with developing a hydrophilic coating formulation that would be both lubricious and durable for the device to easily travel through the working channel of a therapeutic endoscope. Additionally, the hydrophilic coating had to be strong enough to penetrate tissue walls and reach the intended location without requiring additional dilation to deliver the self-expanding metal stent inside the cavity.
Biocoat’s Application Development Team partnered with the customer to run multiple design experiments for their application by rigorously testing several coating formulations, evaluating the results, and reporting the findings to the customer. By selecting the HYDAK® Thermal coating our team developed a highly lubricious and durable custom coating solution that met the customer’s needs. The access catheter is now FDA approved.
Michael Wallace 
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