From 3D Direct Metal Printing solutions and Laser texturing to Milling, Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM), Tooling and Automation, our technologies can help you drive product innovation by enabling you to create products that provide unique value for patients, reduce your manufacturing risk, improve your efficiency and differentiate you from the competition.

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GF Machining Solutions keeps your operation healthy by delivering the innovation, precision, productivity and service you require in the manufacturing of high-quality tools and parts for the medical and dental industries. For many years, GF Machining Solutions has been actively involved in the medical sector, offering the best technologies associated with a wide range of manufacturing processes.

We understand your need for traceability of materials and real-time monitoring to secure your processes and keep you on top of stringent regulations, as well as superior process performance in terms of accuracy, flexibility, high productivity and low running cost. We go a step further by developing our solutions in alignment with your manufacturing needs, keeping in mind your needs regarding time to market, repeatable quality, and experience.

Direct Metal Printing

Our partnership with 3D Systems has helped to take Additive Manufacturing technology from the research lab to the factory floor. GF Machining Solutions provides a full range of solutions including the DMP Factory 500, DMP Flex 350 and the first EDM system dedicated to Additive Manufacturing–the CUT AM 500.  We provide our customers with a turnkey approach that includes not just the printer but also powder management, market-leading software, a wide range of raw materials, and automation for the seamless integration of down-stream processing—all supported by technical experts who help take your project from concept to reality.  We can put in place a solution allowing for seamless transition between additive and subtractive manufacturing, allowing our customers to achieve greater efficiency via workflows for advanced metal manufacturing.

Laser texturing

Our Laser texturing systems allow our customers to replace grit blasting and acid etching with a clean, digital process that is fully repeatable. With easy-to-use software and unbeatable performance, our customers can map their own textures and structures onto complex 3D surfaces or use our standard patterns to create the surface characteristics needed to take device functionality to the next level. Our Laser texturing solutions perfectly fit injection molding applications for engravings on molds for consumables and medical packaging. In the future, more device manufacturers will use Laser texturing to improve connective tissue growth and to create microscopic drug delivery reservoirs, for example.

eTracking

eTracking provides real-time monitoring of critical quality parameters during EDM operations, taking the control of this process and product quality to the next level. With up to 50 different data points measured and stored every second, users receive a log file that provides documented confirmation of the manufacturing process. With eTracking connecting GF Machining Solutions machines and providing parametric feedback, manufacturers can achieve unprecedented process optimization.

Automation

Our production-optimizing Automation cells are adaptable and fully compatible with our entire range of machining solutions. They are superbly integrable in your existing production environment and deliver increased process control, greater efficiency and faster time to market. Our vast global experience in developing automated solutions for medical manufacturers positions us to help you standardize your processes and significantly reduce the number of steps required to achieve your production targets.

Our high-quality, integrated Automation cells help you control production quality and costs and keep the work process clean and efficient, all must-have conditions for medtech manufacturing.