Projects

Development and Testing of Bone Cement

  • Chemical formulation
  • Raw material and manufacturer selection
  • Mechanical, rheological, thermal and structural testing
  • Commissioners: Biomet & DePuy
   

Symax Total Hip Stem

  • Cementless straight stem combined with an anatomic proximal geometry
  • Stem and instrumentation set
  • Design, development and production of the instrumentation set and production organisation of the implant
  • Cadaver testing, range of motion simulations, fatigue testing, clinical trial set-up
  • CE registration of the instrumentation set
  • Commissioner: Stryker Orthopaedics
   

Cone Total Hip System

  • Cemented Total Hip designed for reduced interface stress and to enhance ROM.
  • Stem, head, poly cup and two stem centralisers
  • Design, development and production organisation
  • Cadaver tests, fatigue tests, clinical trial
  • Commissioners: Ordev / Medacta
   

Noviomagus Revision Meshes

  • Stainless steel meshes for the containment of bone graft in Bone Impaction Grafting procedures
  • Design, development and production
  • Class IIb CE-registration
  • Medio 2009 available from Spierings Orthopaedics B.V.
   

Cement Vacuum Mixing Monomer Filter

  • Sterile charcoal and particle filter for absorption of bone cement monomer
  • Sterile packaged filter and tubing
  • Design, development and production
  • Class I sterile CE-registration
  • Commissioners: Merck, HowMedica
   

Simplex Cement Vacuum Mixer

  • Reusable vacuum mixing system for bone cement
  • Design, development and production
  • Commissioner: HowMedica
   

Patella In Place knee Balancer

  • Instrumentation for patella in place TKA ligament balancing
  • Design, development and production
  • Class I CE-registration
  • Commissioner: Stryker Orthopaedics & LaZi-RUSh BVBA
   

Pluvia Bone Lavage System

  • Pneumatic semi-reusable bone and wound lavage system
  • Low-frequency and high pressure system for better cleaning capacity
  • Reusable pump, disposable intramedullary, acetabular and trauma nozzles
  • Design, development and production
  • Class II CE-registration
  • Expected market introduction: 2010 by Spierings Orthopaedics B.V.
   

Mandibula Reconstruction System

  • Osteotomy jig system for reconstruction of the mandibula with a free vascularised fibula flap
  • Modeling and osteotomy instrumentation set
  • Design, development and production
  • Commissioners: Dutch Cancer Institute & Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
   

Cutting tools

  • Rasps, reamers, inverted reamers and milling drums
  • Design, development and production
  • CE-registration
   

Instrumentation Sets

  • Full instrumentation sets
  • Design, development and production
  • CE-registration