_ Finishing processes
Precision finishing
More and more demanding quality standards on the market are dramatically increasing the importance of precision surface finishing processes. These treatments improve the aesthetic appearance of metal parts, but also their mechanical and physical characteristics, corrosion resistance and lifespan, among others.

Smoothing
Processes related to smoothing metal surface allow to achieve uniformity of product for appearance’s sake, and to be safe for touching without being scratched to shreds by unfinished roughness. For moving parts, a smooth finish cuts down on friction loss, without getting into coatings.

Mirror finishing
A mirror finish is a highly-polished finish, characterized by a bright, shiny, reflective metal surface. A high-quality mirror finish is not only visually appealing, but the gradual removal of surface scratches reduces indentations or grooves on metal, which may contain contaminants, such as dirt or bacteria.

Deburring
Deburring is a material modification process that increases the final quality of the product by removing impurities with a negative impact the on the appearance of a smooth machined surface, like sharp edges or burrs, left by bending, cutting, piercing, shearing and compressing materials.

Rounding
Rounding cutting edges is crucial for the design and geometry of cutting tools in metal machining. Cutting edge geometry determines the thermo-mechanical stresses on the tool. By employing edge preparation, tool life, cutting performance, and the quality of the machined surface can be improved.

Corrosion resistance

AM Post-processing
Surface roughness of AM parts can vary depending on the technology used and parameters applied, and affects fatigue, corrosion resistance and friction properties. In order to improve the surface quality, electropolishing is postulated as the most promising the treatment to reduce roughness and defects.

Inner channels
Surface quality requirements of internal surfaces, inner channels and complex parts with blind holes have increased during the last years specially in case of injection molding, aerospace, automotive, medical, food and pharma, semiconductors and gas and fluid flow applications.

_ Industries
Aerospace
Surface finishing operations play an extremely important role in aerospace and energy sectors, since it helps to improve efficiency, while increasing reliability and durability. These parts must withstand high stress corrosive conditions, high loads with long-term lifespan and meeting demanding cycle life specifications.

Automotive
Surface finishing solutions are utilized at every level of the automotive pipeline, from garage maintenance and car restoration to manufacturers’ demands. One of the most challenging aspects has to do with safety, since the result of the surface finishing process is closely linked to the vehicle performance and reliability.

Dentistry
Dental laboratories use dry electropolishing to improve surface quality of cobalt-chrome and titanium dental parts. Smoothing, cleaning and eliminating small imperfections from removal dental prosthetics and other implanted dental parts expands their lifespan pieces and can extend the life of dental components from the inside out.

Food & Pharma
Metal components produced for food, beverages, packaging and pharma industries must comply with challenging surface finishing standards. Those surfaces should be ultra-smooth, precision finishing, thus avoiding areas for bacteria grow. DLyte achieves superior results than any other surface finishing method.

Jewelry & Fashion
These industries require a perfect surface quality as the purpose of the piece is mainly aesthetic and its value depends on a good looking. Complex geometries in jewels are hard to polish with traditional polishing methods and electropolishing is one of the techniques utilized for a better homogeneity and standardization.

Medical device
Cleanability, biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, pathogen resistance and a smooth surface without defects are crucial to comply with the function and demand on quality of the medical industries. Improving the surface’s quality on implants, instruments and equipment components increases functionalities as well as their lifespan.

Toolmaking
Overcoming the drawbacks of tool finishing is one of the main challenges in the field of surface finishing solutions, in order to achieve the lowest roughness on flat surfaces. This is why DLyte has specially created new electropolishing technologies to carry out the most challenging freeform surfaces polishing.

Cutting tools
DryLyte offers an innovative solution for precision surface finishing on cutting tools, delivering consistent, repeatable results with mirror-like finishes. Its unique dry electropolishing technology preserves tool geometry while enhancing surface quality. By reducing friction and wear, DryLyte extends the lifespan of polished parts—making it ideal for high-performance industrial applications.

_ Technology
Immersion
DryLyte is a patented technology for grinding and polishing metals by ion transport using free solid bodies. It works by combining the electrical flow created by high-precision rectifier. This results in an ion exchange, removing material from the peaks of roughness.
Projection
Our new Electro-Blasting technology, released in 2021, is a new solution that provides a stream of solid-electrolyte particles propelled by a non-conductive liquid media to improve the surface quality. The media is projected towards a localized area of the piece.
_ Industrial solutions
_ Dental solutions
Desktop series
Accessible to small laboratories, workshops, workrooms and SMEs needing a cost-effective solution for metal surface finishing processes. From grinding to mirror finishing, this new set-up offers a new easy way to process any casting, sintering or milling metal parts.

Compact series
An efficient range of solutions to meet the requirements of dental, medical and industrial sectors, depending on finishing needs, production quantities or part dimensions. Ensures high scalability and performance. A solution for the most common metals and alloys.

PRO500 series
The most advanced, powerful and versatile surface-finishing machine for mass production on the market. It performs high-quality metal surface-finishing better, faster and more efficiently with processing times ten times better than current technologies.

DLyte TurboFlow
Advanced finishing system with DryLyte technology for large, heavy parts. It optimizes time and costs while ensuring a safe, clean operation. Ideal for aerospace, medical, food, pharma, and automotive industries.

DLyte 100AC
This equipment automates metal part finishing without human intervention, integrating into high-volume production lines. It handles loading, treatment, and post-cleaning with consistent precision and quality.

DLyte eBlast
Projected dry electropolishing for focused surface finishing in complex geometries and heavy or large parts. It provides a stream of solid-electrolyte particles propelled by a non-conductive liquid media to achieve the best surface quality results of metal parts.

DLyte 10,000
The most powerful modular unit for polishing large, heavy and complex pieces to be totally integrated in any production line. The robot module allows to treat metals and alloys in a fast, and cost-efficient way. It counts with a precise 6-axis mechanical movement.

Dental series
An efficient range of solutions to meet the requirements of dental sectors, depending on finishing needs, production quantities or part dimensions. Ensures high scalability and performance. A solution for the most common metals and alloys.

DLyte Mini
It is perfect for low production volumes or as a complementary device to existing DLyte equipment. It can be used as a secondary, quick-step process to achieve a superior shine.

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About us
Due to medical needs, there is a whole industry focused on the creation of implants for different parts of the body. Osteosynthesis implants are used to restore broken bones and to offer relief to an existing medical condition. From dental to vertebrae, shoulder joints or pelvis; there have been many implantology improvements. The importance of having the right implant goes beyond the creation of a metal piece that imitates a part of the body. Today’s engineers are constantly researching to make these implants even better, more functional and to increase their lifespan. For instance, in order to improve long-lasting results, recent studies have shown that improving the surface’s quality on an implant will increase implant functionalities as well as their lifespan.
Implant Limitations Nowadays
Even though technology has made it possible to achieve significant progress in the design and manufacture of implants for osteosynthesis, there is still room for improvement as the implant can fail and even damage the patient due to several factors. Implants tend to suffer from fretting corrosion due to the nature of the movement inside the body, the fluids inside the body and the mechanical stress of its functionality. Implant performance is also affected by the polishing and finishing processes as they impact the fatigue and tensile strengths and on some occasions, the implant is not entirely biocompatible.
A severe incidence in manufacturing different implants refers to the large variety of post-processing steps, even involving manual labor. When a patient is using an implant, it must be manufactured in a way that prevents the patient from additional risks. Some of the parts just need to be slightly rounded and clean. Some of them need intensive processing so they have to be polished to work correctly. If an implant is manufactured negligently or without considering surface quality, it can cause corrosion, premature fracture, and consequent rejection. Corrosion, in this case, is causing metal to enter the patient’s bloodstreams and resulting in blood poisoning.
The typical process to finish implants at large scale is based on chemical-mechanical processes like robotized belt polishing or abrasive polishing. These types of process work generating friction to the piece and against a generic abrasive. This usually involves the use of water and solvents to clean the piece. Although there are some other procedures that involve dry polishing, this other type of polishing primarily refers to circular vibrators. They are commonly used to round the edges and polish the surface of the implant. Those processes tend to present some issues as they are error-prone. It’s hard to certify a specific success-scale as they don’t offer consistency on results. Current processes are not enough reliable and require additional manual rework to achieve the desired finishing, manufacturing also implies the scrapping of faulty parts. Moreover, this equipment requires additional costly peripheral equipment to treat the water and sludge contaminated with metals that require specific maintenance and negatively affecting our environment.
But, What Makes DLyte Different?
One of the biggest challenges for implants was the lack of the right machinery to work and polish the surface of the implants as well as guaranteeing the best possible manufacturing process. DLyte series are new patented machines based on Drylyte technology for surface finishing of metal alloys. These machines have a new system focused on automatization, simplification, and standardization of metal parts post-process. The comprehensive application range of DLyte includes grinding, deburring, surface smoothing and high gloss polishing of high precision and aesthetic parts. Using a dry electropolishing system consists in an efficient process capable to selectively remove a thin layer of material from a metal part to achieve shine, smoothness and ultra-clean surfaces.
DLyte can polish and deburr parts that can be fragile and/or with complex geometrical forms. This process uses electrical current and is intended to improve corrosion resistance. The media used is a soft and non-abrasive material that does not damage nor rounds part edges. DLyte is able to dry electropolish medical devices in Cobalt Chrome, Stainless Steel, Titanium and Nitinol.
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