Articles
3D-Printed Skull Implant Ready for Operation
March 6, 2013
by Jeremy Hsu
in the Tech News Daily
3D printing technology has helped replace 75 percent of a patient's skull with the approval of U.S. regulators.
The 3D-printed implant can replace the bone in people's skulls damaged by disease or trauma, according to Oxford Performance Materials. The company announced it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its skull implant on Feb. 18 — a decision that led to the first U.S. surgical operation on March 4.
"We see no part of the orthopedic industry being untouched by this," said Scott DeFelice, president of Oxford Performance Materials.
DeFelice's company is already selling 3D-printed implants overseas as a contract manufacturer. But the FDA decision has opened the door for U.S. operations... View the article on www.TechNewsDaily.com
Major First! FDA Grants First 3D Printed Implant Clearance
March 5, 2013
by Biloine W. Young
in the Orthopedics This Week
The FDA has, for the first time, awarded its 510(k) clearance for an additively manufactured polymer implant. The product, called the OsteoFab Patient Specific Cranial Device (OPSCD), is manufactured by Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) of South Windsor, Connecticut. View the article on www.ryortho.com
PEKK Pioneer
February 1, 2013
by Sam Anson
in the Medical Plastics News
The global market for additive manufacturing technologies is set to double in 2012-17. While much of this expansion will be in product design and prototyping, a growing niche of custom-made, one-of-a-kind implantable devices are being made from computer aided design (CAD) files drawn up using a patient's actual anatomical dimensions. The attraction of these is that fit can be improved substantially, compared with more traditional generically-sized products. A leading light is USA-based Oxford Performance Materials, co-founded by Scott DeFelice. Read the full article
OPM Engineers Unparalleled Medical Plastics in CT
September 16, 2012
by CT Dept. of Economic and Community Development
Scott DeFelice sits down with the DECD to discuss innovation at OPM and manufacturing in Connecticut. To watch the video, click here: PLAY VIDEO
A Blending of Materials and Additive Fabrication Puts Connecticut Company on Leading Edge of Innovation
April 1, 2012
by Rebecca Carnes
in the Design 2 Part magazine
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn.— Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) is building upon its basis as a company that originally produced proprietary, biocompatible high-performance thermoplastics, known as PEKK polymers, and is transforming into one that is on the leading edge of manufacturing technology. Today, the company uses additive manufacturing to... Read the full article here
GOV. MALLOY: FIRST COMPANY FUNDED BY SMALL BUSINESS EXPRESS PROGRAM TO DOUBLE ITS WORKFORCE
January 18, 2012
by Office of Governor Dannel P. Malloy
Says “Small Businesses are Critical to Reinventing Connecticut”
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the first company to be funded by the state’s new Small Business Express Program (EXP) – South Windsor-based Oxford Performance Materials, LLC – will allow the company to double its workforce by adding 12 positions.
Malloy launches express job-growth program with South Windsor company
January 18, 2012
by Keith M. Phaneuf
in the Connecticut Mirror
South Windsor -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy used one of the new job creation tools Wednesday that state lawmakers authorized during last fall's special session, tapping a South Windsor company to launch the new Small Business Express Program.
Oxford Performance Materials, which is expected to be the first of dozens of firms to receive assistance within 30 days of appealing to the administration for help, is to use $300,000 in state funds to add 12 jobs and expand its production of skeletal replacement parts using advanced polymers.
CT aids S. Windsor firm's $1.8M expansion
January 18, 2012
in the Hartford Business Journal Online
A South Windsor biomedical firm is getting $300,000 in state small business aid that will allow it to hire 12 workers -- doubling its staff, authorities say.
Oxford Performance Materials LLC is the first company funded in the state's new Small Business Express Program, the governor's office said Wednesday.
OPM Announces Patient-Specific Implants
December 9, 2011
by Biloine W. Young
in the Orthopedics This Week
OsteoFab, a division of Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) of South Windsor, Connecticut has manufactured and shipped its first patient-specific implant. According to OPM President Scott DeFelice, the custom-designed implant is made by a selective laser sintering machine from a polymer called polyetherketoneketone or PEKK.
OPM Lands Funding for Revolutionary Orthopedic Fabrication Machine
September 14, 2011
by Robin R. Young
in the RRY Publications
Oxford Performance Materials, LLC (OPM) the innovative Connecticut-based company that earlier this year made a significant bet on a revolutionary new class of medical implant fabrication equipment has announced that it received funding for this machine.
The funding was provided by the Connecticut Innovations, Inc.’s (CI) BioScience Facilities Fund. Financing is in the form of special debt instrument. The equipment is part of a multi‐million dollar project to produce medical implants through additive fabrication with the firm’s proprietary OXPEKK® products which have properties comparable to human bone. Equipment to be installed in new state-of-the-art facility in South Windsor, Connecticut.