Micro Abrasive Blasting Delivers 21st Century Stents

Burbank, CA – Comco Inc., industry leader in the manufacture of micro-abrasive blasters, is featured in the September 2009 issue of Medical Device Technology magazine.  Steven Parmalee of Relucent Solutions, a consultant for the stent industry, co-authored the article with Tim Whelan of Comco’s Technical Sales department.  The article, entitled “Micro Abrasive Blasting Delivers 21st Century Stents” describes how the manufacture of stents has progressed from the "once ‘crazy’ idea conceived in the 1970s [that] is now a well established, minimally invasive therapy.”

Read the full article on Medical Device Technology magazine's website: http://emdt.co.uk/article/micro-abrasive-blasting-delivers-21st-century-stents.

Relucent Solutions (www.relucentsolutions.com) was founded in January 2007 by Maurice Marthaler and Steven Parmelee. Marthaler and Parmelee each bring a unique skill set to Relucent, ultimately combining high-volume manufacturing experience with years of medical device design and prototyping. Originally focusing on providing consulting services to medical device start-ups and R&D departments of large corporations, Relucent Solutions has continually added to the now vertically integrated manufacturing facility located in Santa Rosa, CA.