Butterfield Technologies is a Portland Maine company devoted to delivering solutions-oriented innovation to the marketplace. Our most valuable assets are the people who work for us and collaborate with us. We recognize the importance contributing to a healthy community where all people, animals, land, water and air are valued and protected. In a successful collaboration with the Maine Institute of Technology, we are excited to market our first innovation to thoracic surgeons and hospitals across the globe. The Pleurabrade™ is a general use disposable instrument that may help facilitate the abrasion of pleural tissue during a mechanical pleurodesis procedure.