What to Know Before Starting a Guidewire Grinding Project

medical guidewire with penny for scale

  Guidewire grinding is a specialized process for achieving extremely small diameters and intricate configurations for life-saving devices. The process requires incredible knowledge and skill to ensure part accuracy and cost-effectiveness. With both lives and profits on the line, guidewire grinding can often be a high-stakes project management endeavor.  If you’re overseeing a high-stakes guidewire […]

How We Successfully Produced Life-Saving Bend-Free Vascular Guidewires When Others Failed

artistic rendering of vascular system in chest (where medical guidewires may be used)

When a Salt Lake City-based biotechnology firm approached us in 2019, they were working with our competitor to help them manufacture specialty neurovascular guidewires, a critical device component designed for two stroke intervention procedures: thrombectomy and endovascular coiling. Upon reconnecting with them a year later, the firm revealed that their current vendor was struggling to […]

How It’s Made: Medical Guidewires

medical guidewire with penny for scale

Medical guidewires are often the most critical component within an ever-growing portfolio of interventional devices used for neurovascular, cardiovascular, and peripheral vascular procedures. These wires lead, or ‘guide’, life-saving devices to address critical patient issues such as aneurysm coiling, clot extraction, interventional cardiology, angioplasty, neuromodulation, and thrombus busting and extraction. These high-precision components are commonly […]

How 3D Printing Technology Enhances Our Guidewire Inspection & Packaging Processes

25-slot counting tray created through 3D printing

Harrison (Harry) Lo is a bright mechanical engineer co-op from Drexel University’s School of Engineering. He joined the Meron Medical team for a summer internship to balance classroom theory with practical, hands-on experience. With interest in engineering process analysis and quality assurance, Harry dove into various aspects of our medical component manufacturing while continually exploring […]

KMM Group, Ltd

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KVI Group, M&S Centerless Grinding and Meron Medical have merged to form KMM Group, Ltd. This exciting collaboration diversifies our offering and better allows us to think big and act boldly while maintaining the same precision and expertise you’ve come to expect.