Tubing

  • Disposable Medical Device Components
    B. Braun Medical Inc., a manufacturer of disposable medical devices, offers a line of IV accessories that includes male and female luer adapters, stopcocks, check valves, single- and dual-flow piercing devices, chamber assemblies, burette chambers, clamps, caps, y and t fittings and tri-connectors...
    (March, 2010)
  • IV Products and Components
      IV products and components such as IV regulators, pressure and extension lines, infusion and perfusion lines and three-way stopcocks are available from disposable products supplier Morton Medical. The manufacturer maintains documented and certified quality system that fulfill international...
    (March, 2010)
  • Plastic Connectors
    A manufacturer of plastic connectors for fluid-handling medical devices, Colder Products offers a family of quick-connecting products available in hundreds of configurations that are constructed from various medical-grade materials. The company’s line of precision-moulded FitQuik connecto...
    (March, 2010)
  • Double Check Valves
      Double check valves from Value Plastics are designed to transfer fluid from a clean supply vessel connected to a valve support port using a luer connection or tubing. The fluid is withdrawn from the supply vessel by means of a syringe connected to the aspiration port. When the syringe is com...
    (March, 2010)
  • LED-curable Adhesive
    The 1020-M Ultra Light-Weld adhesive from Dymax is an ultra-fast, tack-free, LED-curable adhesive. It is designed for rapid bonding of a variety of plastics typically used in the manufacture of medical devices and IV components such as reservoirs, tube sets, port fittings and drug-delivery syst...
    (March, 2010)
  • Precision Silicone and Thermoplastic Extruded Tubing
    Vesta Inc. is a global manufacturer that serves the OEM medical device industry by providing silicone mouldings, precision silicone and thermoplastic extruded tubing, assemblies and secondary operations. The company’s products include PEEK extrusions, medical balloons and kink-resistant sili...
    (March, 2010)
  • Single- and Multi-Lumen Extrusions
      Typical applications of single-lumen tubing from Ansamed include catheters, stents, stent-delivery systems and patient-monitoring lines. Further applications are found in balloons used in percutaneous coronary and peripheral angioplasty catheters and balloons used in respiratory products. Th...
    (March, 2010)
  • In Focus on Tubing and Related Equipment
    Polyurethane Tubing Resists Kinking and Abrasion Beswick Engineering offers high-performance polyurethane tubing, coiled polyurethane tubing and high-pressure tubing. The firm’s flexible polyurethane tubing offers resistance to kinking and abrasion. The elastic tubing resists attack by water,...
    (January, 2010)
  • IV Products
    SPOTLIGHT Needle-free IV valves An ISO 13485–certified, US FDA–registered manufacturer of components for medical devices offers two needle-free valves. The firm’s Ultrasite positive-displacement IV valve is suited for the intermittent injection, aspiration or...
    (September, 2009)
  • Benefits of Coextruded Micro Tubing
    Coextruded tubing products offer additional functions through multiple material combinations and facilitate secondary assembly processes. This article presents four applications in which coextruded micro tubings have solved problems and reaped significant advantages: infusion therapy, regional anaes...
    (May, 2009)
  • Extrumed and Vesta Merge, Focus on Sharing Best Practices
    Industry Intelligence: More than 60 Million Served Precision medical tubing supplier Extrumed (Placentia, CA, USA) has merged with Vesta Inc. (Franklin, WI, USA), a supplier of silicone components and engineering services. The merger creates a ...
    (May, 2009)
  • In and Around France
    News on some suppliers and a launch event.
    (March, 2009)
  • Recent Development in Tube Processing Systems
    A new product development system automates routine processes and helps to avoid “deliverable document syndrome”
    (March, 2009)
  • Boston Matthews Develops New Pipette-Tube Extruder
    INDUSTRY NEWS Extrusion systems maker Boston Matthews (Diglis, Worcs, UK) has developed an extrusion line for the production of polystyrene (PS) pipette tubes. Designed in cooperation with medical device OEMs, the Pipette Tube Line is describ...
    (January, 2009)
  • Tubing
    SPOTLIGHT Nitinol tubing A PTFE coating for kink-resistant nitinol and stainless-steel tubing is suited for cardiovascular applications. The lubricious coating does not interfere with nitinol’s kink-resistance characteristics. Tubing with an OD as small as...
    (November, 2008)
  • Trends in Silicone Tubing
    Silicone is the material of choice for many new applications. Those examined here include drug delivery and peristaltic pumps, pacemaker leads and tubing used in minimally invasive surgery and to deliver high pressure gases and liquids.
    (November, 2008)
  • Five Facts About Tubing
    Medical tubing varies widely according to the application. Below is some advice from experts that should help you find what you are looking for.
    (July, 2008)
  • Polyimide Tubing: Dispelling the Myths
    The capabilities and potential of polyimide and polyimide tubing are gaining popularity in the medical design market place as a result of the increasing need for minimally invasive surgical devices. This article looks at the myths surrounding the tubing to better understand its advantages for medica...
    (May, 2008)
  • Downstream Extrusion Equipment Undergoes Makeover to Boost Appeal to Medical Manufacturers
    TECHNOLOGY NEWS: MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT Downstream extrusion equipment from a supplier of auxiliary systems for plastics processors has been updated to satisfy the demands of extruders of medical tubing. Conair (Slough, Berks, UK; www.conairgroup....
    (March, 2008)
  • Force Testing Medical Tubing
    Force testing in the design and production of medical tubing is an essential ingredient in the delivery of functional and consistently high quality devices. This article describes a range of typical tests, how they are performed and the benefits they offer.
    (November, 2007)
  • Tubing
    Ball-screw drive promotes endurance and smooth operation
    (November, 2007)
  • Changes in Medical Procedures Fuel Demand for Increasingly Narrow Tubing
    The popularity of minimally invasive procedures is placing demands on suppliers of medical-grade tubing to increase functionality while shrinking product size.
    (July, 2007)
  • Laser Tube Cutting With Minimal Kerf
    Fibre lasers are being combined in cutting workstations to enable micron-accuracy cutting of microcomponents and tubing with minimal kerf.
    (January, 2007)
  • Recent developments in tube-processing equipment
    EQUIPMENT NEWS Thermal shrinking systems provide uniform heat application during catheter processing A company that has dedicated itself to developing automated and semiautomated systems for catheter fabrication has announced the formation of a tube-processing produc...
    (November, 2006)
  • Manufacturing Close Tolerance Medical Tubing
    This guide to producing optimum bump tubing reports recent technology developments. Once deemed to be a “black art,” the tube manufacturing process has evolved into being a validatable process.
    (October, 2006)