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Tubing in Medical Design

Ensuring trouble-free fluid connectors

The key to choosing the right tubing connector is found in the details — tubing size, flow rate, pressures the tubing and connector must withstand as well as viscosity and corrosiveness of the fluid that the device will be handling

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Flake-free wire for cardiovascular devices

Teflon-coated extrusion wire and forming mandrels for manufacturing cardio-vascular catheters, balloons, and related devices, where a clean inside diameter is absolutely critical, are fabricated using an etching process that eliminates flaking. ...

Can't use stainless tube? Try a composite

Medical composites formed into tubes are ideal for replacing traditional stainless, aluminum, and other thermoplastics such as PEEK and liquid-crystal...

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Medical Design Tubing

New silicone tubing technology ensures consistency

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics’ Healthcare Markets Business Unit, which supplies high-performance products for demanding medical applications, is launching a new silicone tubing technology. The technology features a new extrusion process that enables the company to constantly access in-process dimensional data about its tubing solutions, ensuring product consistency for medical applications....

Test results may eliminate cleaning steps for catheter companies

Independent test results by a leading laboratory have shown that Interface Extrusion extruded solely in a clean room environment is free of pyrogens (fever-producing substances). ...

CNC bending of wire and tube for medical devices in precision 2D and 3D shapes

Marshall Manufacturing offers custom 2D and 3D tubular and wire components for medical device design. When developing medical devices, designers not only need to be concerned with fit, form, and function, but also manufacturability of the device (including cost and feasibility). Additionally, as the design develops, an iterative process of prototyping may be needed until the design is finalized. Medical device components that require bending generally have machined features on both ends of the wire or tube, often with additional features along the length. ...

Visual inspection system reduces cycle times

Interface Catheter Solutions announces a new balloon visual inspection system with upgrades that can significantly reduce cycle times. The Auto-i 360 system provides both visual/flaw inspection and dimensional measurements of medical balloons in a single operation to add consistency and accountability to the inspection process. ...

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Supplier Directory

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B. Braun OEM Division, B. Braun Medical Inc.Bethlehem PA, US

DonatelleNew Brighton MN, US

Enercon IndustriesMenomonee Falls WI, US

Acadia Resources Inc.Bellmont MA, US

Advanced Electron Beams Inc.Wilmington MA, US

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Medical Products

IV containers keep patients and staff safe

The VISIV is a flexible intravenous container for medications and solutions. The VISIV is a flexible intravenous container for medications and solutions.

IV containers keep patients and staff safe

The VISIV is a flexible intravenous container for medications and solutions. The VISIV is a flexible intravenous container for medications and solutions.


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