Norman Noble, Inc. continues to lead through innovation with the launch of Noble UltraLight™, an athermal laser machining process developed to create highly precise features in any material, such as bioabsorbable polymers, shape memory metals and other exotic alloys without producing any heat affected zone (HAZ). The new process supports Norman Noble’s customers’ technically advancing manufacturing requirements in the medical and aerospace industries.

 

 

Noble UltraLight is an ultrashort pulse (USP) laser that, because it does not generate any heat affected zone, reduces, and in some cases, eliminates costly deburring & post-processing steps and increases product quality and yield.

 

The ultrafast laser process enables the machining of features in materials used to manufacture vascular stents with minimal variability and without the introduction of heat inherent in traditional thermal laser manufacturing. Noble UltraLight represents a dramatic advancement in the manufacturing of stents as well as other medical device applications including drug delivery systems, catheter devices, valves and needles.