Medical Tubing and Extrusion

Medical tubing and extrusion technologies

Extrusions

Tekni-Plex appoints global head of product marketing

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Tekni-Plex Medical recently named Meg Henke as its global head of product marketing. Henke has worked with Tekni-Plex since 1996 as a technical service manager supporting sales and marketing for the company's Colorite product. She has also served as director of sales for the Americas and director of commercial business development. Prior to … [Read more...] about Tekni-Plex appoints global head of product marketing

Teleflex Medical OEM acquires medical tubing company

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Teleflex Medical OEM (Wayne, Pa.), today announced the acquisition of IWG High Performance Conductors (HPC), a medical tubing and wire components manufacturer. The addition bolsters Teleflex Medical OEM’s position in the arena of custom-engineered medical devices and its ability to provide clients with technologies used in electrophysiology, … [Read more...] about Teleflex Medical OEM acquires medical tubing company

Trelleborg touts geometric transition extrusion technology

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Trelleborg is showcasing its GeoTrans geometric transition extrusion technology at MD&M West, Feb. 11-13, in Anaheim, Calif. The technology uses high consistency rubber silicone and eliminates the use of assembled joins that can be weak and cause failure modes and internal misalignments. With the assembled joints eliminated, component … [Read more...] about Trelleborg touts geometric transition extrusion technology

Guill Tool & Engineering to tout reciprocating head at MD&M West

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Guill is touting a new reciprocating head at MD&M West, Feb. 11-13 in Anaheim, Calif. The reciprocating head features a linear reciprocating assembly that can change a tube's profile and replaces the traditional tip and die assembly. Guill Tool's process of changing tube profiles is repeated throughout a single extrusion run without … [Read more...] about Guill Tool & Engineering to tout reciprocating head at MD&M West

MD&M West exhibitors you need to know

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MD&M West — set for  Feb. 11-13, 2020 — is billed as the largest medical device manufacturing event in the world. Now in its 35th year, it showcases hundreds of industry suppliers and attracts thousands of medical device industry insiders. Strolling around the show floor at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim, Calif., visitors will see … [Read more...] about MD&M West exhibitors you need to know

Tekni-Plex forms medical business unit

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Tekni-Plex (Wayne, Pa.) announced the formation of the Tekni-Plex Medical business unit, which will supply medical components, materials and solutions to medical device manufacturers worldwide. The new operating unit will offer products and services formerly supplied separately by its Tekni-Plex’s Colorite, Natvar and Dunn businesses. … [Read more...] about Tekni-Plex forms medical business unit

Freudenberg Medical debuts continuous inner measurement for tubing

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Freudenberg Medical said today it has developed a ground-breaking new technology to continuously measure the inner geometry of silicone tubes. The new technology is meant to significantly increase product quality for high-precision applications, such as pacemaker lead insulation, and dramatically cut down on material usage and process time, … [Read more...] about Freudenberg Medical debuts continuous inner measurement for tubing

5 medical tubing manufacturing processes to achieve complex geometries

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Medtech companies have demanded increasingly complex geometries in medical tubing. Here's a rundown of five manufacturing processes that could help them get there.  Dan Sanchez, Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical Here are several tubing processes that may be of interest to medical device designers: Geometric transition extrusion With … [Read more...] about 5 medical tubing manufacturing processes to achieve complex geometries

How geometric transition extrusion can reduce medical tubing risk

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Complex extrusions open up design, quality and performance possibilities for medical tubing products, such as catheters, wound drains and hemodialysis tubing. Dan Sanchez, Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical Many medical tubing designers are increasingly looking to geometric transition extrusions manufactured of high consistency rubber (HCR) … [Read more...] about How geometric transition extrusion can reduce medical tubing risk

How do flow dynamics work with extrusion tooling?

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Medical tubing makers need to carefully control and tune their extrusion tooling to very tight tolerances in a cost-efficient manner. Flow channel geometry plays a critical role.  Denis Finn, Guill Tool & Engineering The extrusion process brings with it several challenges, and a frontrunner is product quality, especially when it comes to … [Read more...] about How do flow dynamics work with extrusion tooling?