Michael Holt, Integer Virtual tubing model analysis optimizes catheter design to help engineers reach final design freeze faster and shorten time to market. As medical procedures become more complex, engineers are challenged to develop smaller, thinner-walled catheters to keep pace with high-performance clinical demands. Conventional catheter … [Read more...] about Virtual tubing model analysis can accelerate complex catheter shaft design
Incorporating steerability into your catheter: Here’s what you need to know
Here are seven key design and development considerations you need to keep in mind for catheters with steerability. Anthony Appling, Freudenberg Medical As medical technology continues to advance, physicians who specialize in minimally invasive procedures also have advancing expectations. They want better performance and improved functionality in … [Read more...] about Incorporating steerability into your catheter: Here’s what you need to know
Sensirion completes development of single-use liquid flow sensor
Sensirion has announced that product development for its single-use liquid flow sensor LD20 has been completed and is ready for production. The flow sensor is designed to quickly and precisely measure the lowest flow rates and has already received a number of international awards. The sensor is compact and cost-effective and can be used for a … [Read more...] about Sensirion completes development of single-use liquid flow sensor
Tekni-Plex touting tubing and compounds at Medtec China
Tekni-Plex’s business units will be presenting its latest medical device tubing and compounds at Medtec China. The event is scheduled to take place Sept. 20–22 in Shanghai, China. Natvar is touting its full line of precision-crafted tubing solutions. It will include Natvar’s newest microextrusion alternative for neurovascular interventional … [Read more...] about Tekni-Plex touting tubing and compounds at Medtec China
Zeus touts extremely thin-walled extrusions
Zeus Industrial Products announced that it has launched its new PTFE Sub-Lite-Wall Streamliner extrusion series. The Sub-Lite-Wall adds to Zeus’ line of extremely thin-walled extrusions and represents the latest breakthrough in the company’s catheter line. The product line further advances the company’s catheter design that improves patient care … [Read more...] about Zeus touts extremely thin-walled extrusions
Shin-Etsu Silicones launches Sil-X-Shintm extrusion series for tubing applications
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (SESA) has recently announced the launch of their newest HCR (High Consistency Rubber) product line Sil-X-ShinTM Silicone Elastomers. The platinum, addition-cure series includes two distinct HCR extrusion versions: Methyl-Vinyl and Phenyl Silicone specifically engineered for extruded tubing and profiles and designed … [Read more...] about Shin-Etsu Silicones launches Sil-X-Shintm extrusion series for tubing applications
10 companies with interesting technology at BIOMEDevice Boston
Updated May 5, 2017 BIOMEDevice Boston provided an opportunity for over 4,000 engineers and executives and 400 suppliers in New England’s design and manufacturing industry to connect. It annual event is an industry showcase created by UBM in partnership with Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC). The event – which ran May … [Read more...] about 10 companies with interesting technology at BIOMEDevice Boston
How TE Connectivity wants to transform patient care
TE Connectivity (TE), a connectivity and sensor products and services company, is showcasing technologies designed to mitigate medical device design challenges at MD&M West this week in Anaheim, Calif. Product experts from TE will be on site (Booth #3149) to discuss how TE's customized sensing, connectivity and minimally invasive device … [Read more...] about How TE Connectivity wants to transform patient care
MD&M West 2017: 7 medical device industry supplier innovations
Updated Feb. 10, 2017 More than 20,000 engineers and executives headed to Anaheim, California, over the past week for MD&M West—which its creator UBM bills as the world's largest annual medical device manufacturing event. The event boasts a multitude of medical device–related products and services, ranging from co-extrusion to metal cleaning … [Read more...] about MD&M West 2017: 7 medical device industry supplier innovations
Raumedic showing off tiny tubing, multilayer tubing at MD&M West
As a polymer component system provider for the medical technology and pharmaceutical industry, Raumedic will be exhibiting at the MD&M West show in Anaheim, Califoria in February. The company will be demonstrating its ability to implement customer ideas in products that expertly combine functionality and cost-effectiveness. This year, the … [Read more...] about Raumedic showing off tiny tubing, multilayer tubing at MD&M West