An article by Bennett Bruntil, Sono-Tek Regional Sales Manager, appeared in US-Tech. The article extolls the benefits of Sono-Tek’s recent technology for dual flux dispense on our SonoFlux Servo ultrasonic spray fluxing systems. The Dual Flux option has allowed contract manufacturers to easily switch between 2 different fluxes without manually switching tanks, using the same…
Congratulations to Fielding Water, one of Sono-Tek’s Application Engineers, for his recent article published in the Sept/Oct Issue of Medical Design Technology Magazine and online at http://digital.mdtmag.com/medicaldesigntechnology/september_2014?pg=16#pg16, titled “Texturing Prospective with Ultrasonically Coated Balloon Catheters”. The article discusses the efficacy of drug eluting coatings for angioplasty balloon catheters (DCBs) using ultrasonic spray and process considerations…
Beginning August 2014, Sono-Tek will make available its first class 10,000 rated clean room laboratory for customers to conduct testing using Sono-Tek coating equipment. The facility is located in Guangzhou, China, and is operated by Sono-Tek’s China Distributor, Unitak. The laboratory will primarily be focused toward Sono-Tek’s medical device coating systems, such as stent and…
Sono-Tek Corporation is pleased to introduce our next generation ultrasonic generator. The ECHO ultrasonic generator is designed for the highest degree of accuracy and control of ultrasonic spray processes using Sono-Tek ultrasonic nozzle technology. ECHO provides the high frequency electrical energy required to operate all frequencies of Sono-Tek ultrasonic nozzles. As with Sono-Tek standard broadband…
Sono-Tek is pleased to announce a new relationship with world-reknowned premier laboratory spray dryer manufacturer, BUCHI, to provide ultrasonic nozzles as a new option added to Buchi’s extensive line of precision spray drying products. Sono-Tek ultrasonic spray drying nozzles will be available from BUCHI for retrofit into existing Spray Dryers as an Ultrasonic Package or…
Sono-Tek has seen an increase in coatings onto increasingly small and precise medical diagnostic equipment recently. Biosensors, microarray lab-on-chip devices, point-of-care diagnostic testing kits, blood glucose monitors, and molecular/protein diagnostic kits are some of the applications we see expanding recently. Coatings applied may be active layer conducting materials, or hydrophilic and hydrophobic biopolymers, and may…
Sono-Tek Corporation, Milton, NY, a world leader in precision implantable stent coating systems, announces the availability of the MediCoat DES3000, a next generation tabletop stent coating system that uses Sono-Tek’s precision 180kHz ultrasonic nozzle to spray anti-restentosis drug/polymer solutions onto arterial implantable stents. Steve Harshbarger, Sono-Tek’s President, comments, “This new system was a natural progression…
Recent outbreaks of food borne diseases in developed countries around the world resulted in numerous cases of deaths and hospitalizations. Manufacturers of food products and supermarket chains had to recall their products from the marketplace, and consequently suffered major economic impact and damage to their reputation. In response to these outbreaks, significant improvements to the…
Sono-Tek would like to say a special thanks to our “20 year club”, 20+ year manufacturing representatives serving as US and Canada distributors for Sono-Tek’s ultrasonic spray fluxing equipment. Sono-Tek is one of the originators of spray fluxing, starting in 1989, providing ultrasonic spray nozzles to AT&T. 1991 marked the development of Sono-Tek’s first full…
The 16th International Coating Science and Technology Symposium was held Sept. 9-12 in Atlanta, GA. Sono-Tek director of technical services, Robb Engle, presented a paper outlining the benefits of atmospheric ultrasonic spray deposition of TCO chemistries in the manufacture of touch screens, solar cells, and other functional glass panels. Sono-Tek’s coating technology offers manufacturers a…
