Reusable medical instruments made from stainless steel are reprocessed via high temperature and high alkaline cleaning processes. Add’n solutions is working with FOBA to develop a process to label instruments with marks which remain legible over the lifetime of the tool, which may include several hundred cleaning cycles.
FOBA and add’n use an ultrashort pulse laser to create machine-readable 2D codes on tools, which are then cleaned and passivated as per medical standards. The tools are then autoclaved one hundred times, and subjected to periodic high-alkaline cleaning. Dominik Pfeiffer from add’n solutions reports that after this intensive testing, the mark remains perfectly readable.
If you’d like to know more about marking with FOBA ultrashort pulse lasers, contact Raymax on (02) 9979 7646 or fill out the form below.
