Capabilities
A “Turnkey” Service
Hochuen Medical provides turnkey service for IVD customers. The company can support customers from the R&D and prototyping phases to low and high-volume CMO manufacturing on microfluidic chips and biomedical consumables. The products include microfluidic kits, IVD disposables, POCT devices, DNA sequencing flowcells, life science research disposables, animal and plant disease detection kits, organ-on-a-chip, drug delivery, surgical devices, etc.
Our Capabilities
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Injection molding
Hochuen medical owns more than 60 injection molding machines focusing on medical related devices in class 10k-100k clean rooms for…
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In-house Mold Making
We have a large machine shop to make molds and fixture. Our turn-around of rapid prototype molds is 1 week, while production molds ...
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Rapid Prototyping Mold
Prototyping injection molds can be made in Cu, Al, and steel with a leadtime of 1-2 weeks. A prototype low-grade steel mold can last for …
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Cartridge Production
An integrated cartridge can consists of many different components (e.g., injection molded plastics, blister packs, die cut filters, etc)...
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Microfluidics
We can fabricate microchannels as small as 40 um wide using injection molding. We can also achieve microfluidic channels using...
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Die Cutting
High-precision die cutting can achieve as small as 400 um wide channels. It can be used for high-volume and low-cost production of…
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Rotary Die Cutting
Rotary die cutting is the most effective manufacturing method for low-cost disposable thin-film devices.
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Laser Cutting
Laser machining can be either used for prototyping or high precision cutting on thin film materials with a microchannel as small as 100...
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Bonding (Heat Staking)
Heat staking has been used for cartridge cover and base assembly without tight seal. However, heat staking can lead to leakage free if ...
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Bonding (Laser Welding)
Laser welding is suited for making channels without use of any adhesive. The channel can also withstand relatively high pressure. We…
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Bonding (Clear Plastic Laser Welding)
Laser welding is suited for making channels without use of any adhesive. Clear Plastic laser welding is more challenging than traditional one with black substrate.
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Bonding (Adhesive)
Adhesive bonding is a flexible method to make a channel or even multiple layer structures with connected channel network.
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Bonding (Thermal Compression)
Thermal Compression bonding is suited for microfluidic channel sealing without the use of adhesive. Thermal stress control is critical.
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Bonding (Ultrasonic Welding)
Ultrasonic welding is another commonly used bonding method for device assembly. Ultrasonic bonding is suited for bonding two layers...
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Reagent Formulation
We provide all kinds of wet reagents formulation and QC tests.
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Blister Pack
Hochuen is capable of manufacturing blister packs for wet reagent storage. Blister packs for volume of as small as 50 uL can be …
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Buffer Cup
Wet reagent solution can be stored in a buffer cup that is integrated in a disposable device.
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Dry Reagent Handling
Dry reagent such as lyo beads can be assembled in a cartridge device in a dry room.
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LSR
Liquid Silicone Rubber molding enables fabrication of small silicone features on microfluidic and cartridge devices. V
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Overmolding
We can overmold soft materials (gasket) on hard plastic materials to provide various functionalities such as sealing.
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PDMS Microfabrication
PDMS devices can be fabricated using soft lithograph process. In house plasma treatment allows us to achieve robust bonding and...
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Lamination
More than 10 layers can be laminated with high precision and tight tolerance to form channels, reaction chambers, etc. Filter materials …
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Plasma Surface Treatment
Atmospheric Plasma Surface Treatment allows improved surface bonding and molecular binding/attachment.
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Screen Printing
Hochuen medical has abundant experience in silk screen printing to make electrodes and electrochemical biosensors. We can produce ...
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Manifold
Manifolds used in IVD instruments may consists of multiple plastic layers bonded using thermal bonding method, and require good...
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Packaging
We produce finished goods for clients. Packaging followed by sterilization is a key step.
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QC
We have variety of QC equipment to conduct optical inspection and dimensional measurement.
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PCR Test
PCR test is used for reagent QC test before the reagent is assembled into the disposable devices.
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Fluorescence Imaging
We have a Fluorescence Imaging lab for incoming material testing and device QC test.
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Reagent Bottles
Standard sized reagent bottles with various volumes.
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Low Volume Vials
Standard sized low volume vials (e.g., 0.5 mL).
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Transfer pipettes
Disposable polyethylene transfer pipets provide a dispense volume of...
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Sample Collection Bottle
Sample collection bottles for stool samples or swab samples.
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Vials
Standard sized vials with various volumes.
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Micro Motor
A micro motor with 30,000 RPM that can be integrated into a cartridge.
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Label Printing
Labels are printed using screen printing or digital printing machines.
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Pad Printing
Printing of the letters and figures on the curved surface can be achieved by pad printing technology.
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Surface hydrophobicity Treatment
Surface treatment to turn hydrophilic surface hydrophobic, or vice versa.
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Glass Chip Fabrication
Customized and fabricated glass slide/chips assembled with other substrates to form complete devices.
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Microtiter Plates
We can create microtiter plates inhouse. These consist of flat plates with multiple “wells” that act as test tubes.