Ablating
Functional electrodes
Selective ablation turns coated film into traces, sensing areas and isolation features straight from the design file, with the construction underneath preserved and multi-up layouts for repeatable production.
Equipment
Industry
Medical & Life Sciences
LasX builds precision laser processing systems for medical device and life sciences manufacturing, and runs contract production with cleanroom environments, certified to ISO 13485 for non-metallic medical parts.
25 µmDemonstrated feature size
XY stageMulti-feature panels, registered per sheet
ISO 13485Certified since 2012
Applications
What LasX equipment does in Medical & Life Sciences
Ablating
Electrodes from metallized polymer
The metal comes off and the polymer stays. The electrode layout is a file, so geometry changes without new tooling.
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Kiss-cutting
Wearables and drug-delivery patches
Precision cutting and kiss-cutting of thin-film polymers, adhesives and hydrogels, with venting and flow features, in multilayer cut-and-laminate assemblies. A demonstration developed with Adhesive Applications turned skin-safe materials into a functional device platform.
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Micromachining
Diagnostic and microfluidic disposables
Channels, reservoirs and vent features to 25 µm in films and laminates, in register across the sheet. More in diagnostics.
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Marking
Sub-millimeter device marking
A 927 µm-wide machine-readable mark with clean edges.
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Configured per application — ask an engineer →
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Cutting
Stents, hypotubes and cut-tube components
NIR nanosecond and femtosecond cutting of stainless and nitinol tubing with minimal heat-affected zone, then the finishing and inspection steps the device history file expects. Metal parts run under the same ISO 13485 quality system, but the certificate's current scope covers non-metallic parts; see what it covers.
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Configured per application — ask an engineer →
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Drilling
Catheters and shafts
Skiving, side holes, tip features and marker-band work — drilled and cut without the deformation of mechanical tooling. Edge condition is measured on the part.
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Configured per application — ask an engineer →
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Marking
Permanent UDI and traceability
Laser marks that survive sterilization and handling, verified inline and recorded against the lot.
Equipment
Configured per application — ask an engineer →
Why laser, in this market
01
Micron-scale precision for miniaturized devices
Laser micromachining and micro-joining where heat-affected zone and edge condition are measured on the part — across films, laminates, and device components.
02
Consistent processing across multi-material stacks
Stable, validated recipes for polymers, adhesives, thin metals and nitinol, laminates, and glass or silicon — particulate and thermal input controlled to the device requirements you specify.
03
Rapid, tool-less iteration to clean, scalable, compliant manufacturing
CAD-to-part speed and DOE tuning that move from feasibility to a documented process ready for your IQ/OQ/PQ; UDI marks verified to your readability specification, SPC and vision records, and documentation aligned to ISO 13485 and 21 CFR Part 820 — in non-contact, cleanroom-friendly workflows that scale.
Buy the equipment
Buy the equipment
ExactPro micromachines device components on a square bed to 670 × 670 mm, with 10 µm positional repeatability and a cleanroom configuration as standard; SheetPro takes large-format sheets and panels. Both register each part and compensate for distortion.
- Feature size is set by the laser module — features to 25 µm demonstrated in the PhotonX lab with NIR, green, and UV sources
- XY-stage processing of multi-feature panels, registered sheet by sheet
- No cutting die to validate, revalidate, or replace; the laser process is qualified with your quality team
Have us make the parts
Have us make the parts
Non-metallic medical parts — films, laminates and device components — made in cleanroom environments under an ISO 13485-certified quality system, from feasibility parts through validated production.
- Cleanroom production without your own capital
- Design iterations without tooling cost
- Process data that supports your validation package
In medical manufacturing the constraint is rarely whether a feature can be cut. It is whether the process can be documented, repeated, and defended in an audit.
Feasibility to production without changing partners
Each phase creates the evidence for the next investment decision, and the same team carries the process through all six.
- Feasibility — material and laser fit, screened across wavelengths and pulse regimes in the PhotonX lab.
- Prototype — design iteration with digital files instead of hard tooling.
- Pilot — repeatability: process DOE, inspection strategy, DFM input.
- Scale-up — yield and automation, from tens of parts to millions.
- Production — qualified output in a confidential U.S. facility; non-metallic medical parts under our ISO 13485-certified quality system.
- Equipment — workcell transfer: the validated process moves in-house on a LasX machine.
You get data before you commit capital, and you can stop at any phase or carry straight through to a machine of your own.
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Materials we process here
Questions we get asked
Can you support IQ/OQ/PQ?
Process documentation from LasX equipment is built to support equipment qualification. Talk to us early — what a validation package needs is far easier to design in than to retrofit.
Does laser processing generate particulate?
Any thermal process generates some. The relevant questions are how much, of what size, and whether extraction handles it for your cleanroom class. This is measured per material and per feature, not assumed.
The fastest way to find out is to send us the material.
Trials in the PhotonX lab come back as processed samples and a written report — not a proposal.