Spire's Custom Coating Solutions

Spire’s customized coatings improve the performance of orthopedic and cardiovascular devices, enhancing such properties as wear resistance, infection resistance and thromboresistance. In addition, Spire’s advanced medical device coatings enhance tissue and bone growth, provide conductive pathways, improve radiopacity, and provide improvement of other performance characteristics. Spire utilizes advanced ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) technology and other coating processes to treat products such as catheters, guide wires, stents, grafts and other specialty medical devices.

• Spi-Argent™
  A nanocrystalline silver-based antimicrobial coating that can be applied to polymeric, ceramic or metallic medical devices
• Spi-Ceramic™
  A state-of-the-art ceramic film that is applied to polymers, metals, and ceramics
• Spi-Met™
  A uniform, adherent, thin metal film applied at low temperature to polymers, metals, or ceramics
• Spi-Sight™
  Metallic coatings applied to polymers, metals, and ceramics to provide radiopaque markers
• IonTite™
  Hydroxyapatite coatings for orthopedic and dental applications