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, life science research disposables, gene sequencing chips, animal and plant disease detection kits, etc.

Our Capabilities

  • Injection molding

    Hochuen medical owns more than 60 injection molding machines focusing on medical related devices in class 10k-100k clean rooms for…

  • 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 ...

  • 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 …

  • Cartridge Production

    An integrated cartridge can consists of many different components (e.g., injection molded plastics, blister packs, die cut filters, etc)...

  • Microfluidics

    We can fabricate microchannels as small as 40 um wide using injection molding. We can also achieve microfluidic channels using...

  • 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…

  • Rotary Die Cutting

    Rotary die cutting is the most effective manufacturing method for low-cost disposable thin-film devices.

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Bonding (Laser Welding)

    Laser welding is suited for making channels without use of any adhesive. The channel can also withstand relatively high pressure. We…

  • 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.

  • Bonding (Adhesive)

    Adhesive bonding is a flexible method to make a channel or even multiple layer structures with connected channel network.

  • Bonding (Thermal Compression)

    Thermal Compression bonding is suited for microfluidic channel sealing without the use of adhesive. Thermal stress control is critical.

  • Bonding (Ultrasonic Welding)

    Ultrasonic welding is another commonly used bonding method for device assembly. Ultrasonic bonding is suited for bonding two layers...

  • Reagent Formulation

    We provide all kinds of wet reagents formulation and QC tests.

  • 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 …

  • Buffer Cup

    Wet reagent solution can be stored in a buffer cup that is integrated in a disposable device.

  • Dry Reagent Handling

    Dry reagent such as lyo beads can be assembled in a cartridge device in a dry room.

  • LSR

    Liquid Silicone Rubber molding enables fabrication of small silicone features on microfluidic and cartridge devices. V

  • Overmolding

    We can overmold soft materials (gasket) on hard plastic materials to provide various functionalities such as sealing.

  • PDMS Microfabrication

    PDMS devices can be fabricated using soft lithograph process. In house plasma treatment allows us to achieve robust bonding and...

  • Lamination

    More than 10 layers can be laminated with high precision and tight tolerance to form channels, reaction chambers, etc. Filter materials …

  • Plasma Surface Treatment

    Atmospheric Plasma Surface Treatment allows improved surface bonding and molecular binding/attachment.

  • Screen Printing

    Hochuen medical has abundant experience in silk screen printing to make electrodes and electrochemical biosensors. We can produce ...

  • Manifold

    Manifolds used in IVD instruments may consists of multiple plastic layers bonded using thermal bonding method, and require good...

  • Packaging

    We produce finished goods for clients. Packaging followed by sterilization is a key step.

  • QC

    We have variety of QC equipment to conduct optical inspection and dimensional measurement.

  • PCR Test

    PCR test is used for reagent QC test before the reagent is assembled into the disposable devices.

  • Fluorescence Imaging

    We have a Fluorescence Imaging lab for incoming material testing and device QC test.

  • Reagent Bottles

    Standard sized reagent bottles with various volumes.

  • Low Volume Vials

    Standard sized low volume vials (e.g., 0.5 mL).

  • Transfer pipettes

    Disposable polyethylene transfer pipets provide a dispense volume of...

  • Sample Collection Bottle

    Sample collection bottles for stool samples or swab samples.

  • Vials

    Standard sized vials with various volumes.

  • Micro Motor

    A micro motor with 30,000 RPM that can be integrated into a cartridge.

  • Label Printing

    Labels are printed using screen printing or digital printing machines.

  • Pad Printing

    Printing of the letters and figures on the curved surface can be achieved by pad printing technology.

  • Surface hydrophobicity Treatment

    Surface treatment to turn hydrophilic surface hydrophobic, or vice versa.

  • Glass Chip Fabrication

    Customized and fabricated glass slide/chips assembled with other substrates to form complete devices.

  • Microtiter Plates

    We can create microtiter plates inhouse. These consist of flat plates with multiple “wells” that act as test tubes.