Materials & Manufacturing

Tubing/​Extrusion

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Explore the applications and advancements in tubing, catheters, and extrusion production methods.

Latest Briefs & News

Products: Materials
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Briefs: Design
A team of scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth.
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Supplements: Medical
In our summer edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.
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Features: Tubing & Extrusion
For medical device manufacturers that work with different kinds of plastics, utilizing plasma treatments can create competitive advantages.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Plastic consumables for medical applications are often very complex and sophisticated devices. Before these devices can be used by healthcare workers or home care patients, they...

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Products: Tubing & Extrusion
Surgical Motors

Portescap, Morristown, NJ, offers surgical motors that are designed to withstand 3,000+ autoclave cycles. The motors and controllers include the CNT1530...

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Products: Tubing & Extrusion
Zeus, Orangeburg, SC, has launched a multi-lumen tubing to help simplify steerable catheter construction.
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Technology Leaders: Materials
The need for innovations like multi-filar cables and multi-channel transmission cables has become more important than ever.
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Products: Materials
Linear stepper stages, tubing, Bluetooth modules, and more.
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R&D: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The 3D printable nanocomposite polymeric ink uses carbon nanotubes.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Power entry modules, application processors, proximity testing services, and more.
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News: Medical

Medical technology company Raumedic Inc. is expanding the cleanroom manufacturing facilities at its U.S. headquarters in Mills River, NC, by February 2022. The...

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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Lumen chips, force sensors, safety clips, and more.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device was inspired by nature, specifically insect legs and flagella.
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Products: Tubing & Extrusion
Fluid-dispensing systems, a micro-dosing pump, solenoid valves, and more.
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Features: Medical
Rodd Turnquist tells Medical Design Briefs how to select the best pumps for medical devices and accelerating time to market.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Touchless switches, biocompatible adhesives, 3D-printing materials, and more.
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Features: Tubing & Extrusion
Advances in hose and tubing manufacturing techniques are supporting new miniaturized devices and wearables.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
MD&M West brings together medtech engineers, business leaders, and innovative thinkers to create life-changing medical devices.
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Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A growing number of companies are turning to sterile, single-use, closed liquid dispensing systems and kits.
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Supplements: Electronics & Computers
Our 2021 Resource Guide shows you the top manufacturers in materials, manufacturing, and a range of other medical-device categories.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An optomechanical ultrasound sensor on a silicon photonic chip provides unprecedented sensitivity due to an innovative optomechanical waveguide.
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Products: Medical
Silicone elastomers, polyimide tubing, heat-shrink materials, and more.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
High consistency rubbers (HCRs) give medical device manufacturers the versatility they need for demanding therapeutic applications.
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Briefs: Medical
Medical device OEMs often face a tough decision: Use HCR or LSR for medical device component manufacturing?
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Barcode readers, risk-management software, servo drives, and more.
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Technology Leaders: Tubing & Extrusion
Stainless steel tubing is a primary support feature of single-use handheld surgical devices.
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Technology Leaders: Design
Learn the basics of heat shrink tubing and its use in medical device manufacturing.
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Supplements: Tubing & Extrusion
Learn about the medical manufacturers and cutting-edge applications that stood out in 2020.
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Ask the Expert

John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

Inside Story

Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development

Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.

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