Products: Tubing & Extrusion
RiverTech Medical, Chattanooga, TN, has developed precision micro-tubing with variable flexibility for catheter-based medical devices. The micro-tubing offers two to three different...
Products: Medical
Teleflex Medical OEM, Gurnee, IL, announces the addition of a continuously-wound, variable-pitch, coil-reinforced shaft technology with a HDPE liner to reduce friction to its portfolio...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Precision, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, announces the launch of the company’s miniature coil manufacturing capabilities for medical navigation technologies. These assemblies feature ultra-fine wire...
Technology Leaders: Medical
Determining what tubing to use in a medical device involves considerable research. Designers must investigate ingredients, performance, documentation requirements, sterility, and other qualifying...
Technology Leaders: Tubing & Extrusion
Minimally Invasive, Maximally Innovative: Polymer Science and Extrusion Plays Vital Role
William “Bill” Cook started Cook Medical out of a spare bedroom in his Bloomington, IN, apartment in 1963. It was where he and his wife, Gayle, made guide wires, guiding catheters, and other small devices used in diagnostic radiology.
Features: Materials
Stringent product quality and process capability requirements confront producers of precision medical tubing used in medical device applications. This includes final tubing...
Products: Medical
Parker Hannifin Corporation, Parflex Division, Ravenna, OH, offers TexLoc PTFE 4:1 Heat Shrink Tubing with the largest expansion ratio available in a PTFE tube. Operating in high temperatures up to 500°F,...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Interface Catheter Solutions, Laguna Niguel, CA, introduces an online tri-layer co-extrusion catalog to order tubing. The catalog offers extrusion for .014" guide wire for peripheral dilatation catheters along...
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
Medical device manufacturers are being challenged by strong market demand for tubing that delivers increased functionality, lower profiles, and lower costs—pushing the limits of material...
Products: Medical
Judson A. Smith Co., Boyertown, PA, a leading manufacturer of precision, custom tubular parts and machined components in most materials, specializes in fabricating tubular parts and assemblies used in a wide...
Industry News: Medical
September Mid-Month Industry News
It's mid-September and there have been many new leadership changes, expansions, and mergers. To see what's happened in the industry in the past two weeks, see below.
Products: Medical
Compass Technology from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Healthcare Markets (Northboro, MA) is a new co-development for silicone extrusion. With Compass Technology, a closed-loop system automatically adjusts...
Features: Medical
Advancements in medical technology and material science have created new engineering challenges for medical devices used in minimally invasive interventional procedures....
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensirion (Westlake Village, CA) has launched the digital SFM3000 mass flow meter for high-volume applications in medical devices, process automation, and burner control. The flow channel is designed to achieve a very low...
Features: Medical
Development of medical devices that are molded from thermoplastics or that have plastic components should begin with collaboration between the OEM’s engineering team and the mold...
Products: Medical
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (Akron, OH) has announced the launch of its HCR (high consistency rubber) product line – Sil-X-Shin™ Silicone Elastomers, which are designed for extruded tubing and profiles. The...
Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
While silicone is the obvious material of choice in many medical applications because of its excellent biocompatibility, its physical properties make it challenging to work with. Design...
Products: Medical
Concept Group (West Berlin, NJ) has developed the Insulon® Shaped-Vacuum Thermal Barrier, suitable for delivering vacuum insulation at small scales. Applications that need to overcome cooling or heating challenges in...
Products: Medical
CILS International (Burlington, MA) offers 8/9000 ‘wrap around’ labels that can be computer printed to add variable data (barcodes, serial numbers, etc.) from a standard PC and laser or thermal transfer printer. They come...
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
Silicone elastomers are high-performance thermoset materials broadly used in diverse industries, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, consumer goods, and health care. They are...
Products: Materials
UV Curable Silicone Rubber
Momentive Performance Materials (Columbus, OH) has introduced the Addisil UV 60 EX elastomer for medical applications where lower temperatures during manufacturing and typical silicone rubber physical properties are both mandatory. The elastomer has minimal shrinkage and reduced air entrapment when compared to heat...
Products: Medical
Apple Rubber Products (Lancaster, NY) offers medical silicone seals that feature resistance to UV light, ozone, and weather; hydrophobic properties; temperature range of -94 °F to 400 °F; dimensional stability in...
Products: Materials
PolyMedex Discovery Group (Putnam, CT) offers custom melt filtration of polymers used for catheters and balloons. The custom melt filtration process results in removal of gels as small as 20 μm (0.0008"). Melt...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Thermally Conductive Silicone
The MED-2955 from NuSil (Carpinteria, CA) is designed to have low volatility and low ionic content for more sensitive electronic devices or processes. It is non-cytotoxic and can be used as a cure-in-place adhesive or potting compound between electrical/electric components and heat sinks as part of a thermal...
Products: Medical
Evonik (Parsippany, NJ) has introduced CYROLITE® Protect, an acrylic-based multipolymer compound that has been developed for medical devices that include antimicrobial agents. It is designed for FDA...
Products: Materials
Da/Pro Rubber, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of precision, custom molded rubber, plastic, and TPE products. We work hand-in-hand with our customers to manufacture unique precision...
Products: Medical
Interface has been solely focused on the balloon catheter market since 1995, and is the only vertically integrated provider of outsourced solutions for balloon catheter manufacturing. Our...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Proto Labs is the world’s fastest provider of CNC machined and injection molded parts. Our Firstcut and Protomold services utilize proprietary computing technologies and automated manufacturing...
Products: Medical
Teleflex Medical OEM (Kenosha, WI) has introduced an EFEP co-extrusion that eliminates the need for etching. The co-extrusion offers chemical resistance and high clarity for applications where transparency is...
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