Electroformed catheter tip-forming dies, microfluidic molds, bellows and bellows assemblies, miniature optical housings, and various other 2D and 3D electroforms were on display in NiCoForm's booth 1663. Our knowledgeable and friendly engineers, Joe Jachlewski and John Contino were on hand to explain how electroformed items are made and their advantages over conventional machined components.
February 9-11 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, CA
Aero Engineering '09 UK November 10-11, 2009 Manchester, UK Precision electroformed bellows, net shape electroforms, IR cold shields and other NiColoy® electroforms were on display at this venue, highlighting NiCoForm's latest advances in production of high-performance light-weight engineering components. We also made a presentation "Electroforming of Light Weight Engineering Components" at the show's Technical Forum.
MD&M East 2009 June 9-11 2009 Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY USA
MD&M West 2009 February 10-12, 2009 AnaheimConvention Center Anaheim, CA
NiCoForm's catheter tip-forming dies were demonstrated in use on an E. Conn Co. catheter tip-forming machine in booth 790. Also on display were electroformed “Lab-on-a-Chip” microfluidic molds, NiColoy® bellows and net shape electroforms
January 29-31, 2008 AnaheimConvention Center Anaheim, CA
MD&M East 2007 June 3-5, 2007 Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY
MD&M West 2007 February 13-15 2007 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, California Aerospace Design Expo 2006 November 14-16 2006 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, California
July 27, 2006 US Patent and Trademark Office issued a Certificate of Registration No. 3,108,358 for the trademark NiColoy® – NiCoForm’s proprietary high strength, low stress electroformable alloy. This hallmark material has been used since 2000 to electroform critical components for the aerospace, medical device, optical, microfluidic, motion control and other high tech industries.
Optifab 2005 May 2-5, 2005 Rochester Riverside Convention Center Rochester, NY
NiCoForm's Berl Stein presented results of our latest advances in precision optical electroforming in a poster paper entitled: Fabrication of affordable aspheric mirrors by electroforming, B. Stein, NiCoForm, Inc.; A. Caneer, Advanced Optical Systems, Inc. [TD03-35]. Download the executable slide show (Windows) Download the summary
January 10-12 2005 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, California
At the Medical Design and Manufacturing Exhibition (MD&M West 2005), in which NiCoForm participated for the first time, we exhibited electroformed catheter tipping dies, bellows, nano- and microfluidic molds and optical devices. August 2004 A joint R&D effort of NiCoForm, Inc. and Advanced Optical Systems (Huntsville, AL), aimed at producing precision electroformed mirrors and named FAAME, is drawing to a successful completion in December 2004. In this project, diamond machined mandrels were used to electroform three generations of replicas with optical precision of less than 3 wavelengths in the visible light. From a single master we produced five first generation, ten second and twelve third generation 2" OD mirror replicas. In another series of tests we determined that a master diamond machined in electroless nickel can withstand over 25 replication cycles without noticeable deterioration of its surface finish and geometry. These results were presented in August 2004 at the Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center's Tech Days 2004 in Huntsville, AL. Click to view the talk brief. They were also described in the Missile Defense Agency's Spring 2005 newsletter (click here to view article).
October 2003 In conjunction with Cornell University's Alliance for Nanobiotechnology, NiCoForm presented a paper entitled: NiColoy®: A versatile electroforming process for bio-sensor fabrication by embossing, at the Sensors 2003 Technical Conference in Toronto Canada.
May 2003 A poster presentation 'Electroforming of Optical Tooling in High-Strength Ni-Co Alloy' was presented by Berl Stein of NiCoForm at Optifab 2003 in Rochester, NY.
May 9 2002 A poster presentation, 'Electroforming of Optical Tooling in High-Strength Ni-Co Alloy', (paper # CA05-502) was presented on May 9, 2002 at OPTO-Canada in Ottawa. It covered applications of NiColoy® in optics and included samples of electroforms produced for various projects. To download a summary of the presentation in PDF format, please click here.
April 26 2001 NiCoForm's Berl Stein makes a presentation, "Electroforming of Optical Tooling in High-Strength Ni-Co Alloy," at an electroforming symposium co-sponsored by the Nickel Development Institute and the Institute of Metal Finishing in Birmingham, England. Download the slide show program here (Windows only, 1.1M).
