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Extrusions
Medical Tubing Solutions
Medical Tubing Solutions specializes in custom manufacturing of high-performance tubing for medical contract manufacturers. We provide a variety of innovative solutions to meet the needs of our customers in the cardiovascular peripheral, neuro space. We are committed to delivering value by developing innovative high-quality products quickly that perform the same every time.
Provide A Variety
- Microbore tubing diameter 0.010” to 0.450”
- Profile Multi-Lumen extrusions
- Vacuum coating over shaped tubing designs
- Pressure coating over braided core
- Bump and Taper extrusions
- Balloon Tubing
- PEEK alternatives to coated Metal Mandrels
- Striped radiopaque or colored
- Co-extrusions
- R&D runs
- High volume production
Extrusions
Multi-lumen Tubing
Multi-lumen tubing has three or more lumens that can be round or customized with various shapes. It is commonly used to deliver air, fluids, or wires in medical and industrial applications. It can be manufactured using various engineering thermoplastic resins and can also be extruded with an external profile configuration.
Multi-lumen extrusions can also be extruded in an external profile configuration.
Multi-lumen extrusions can also be extruded in an external profile configuration.
Dual-lumen Tubing
Dual-lumen tubing is commonly comprised of 2 round holes or the popular 'Double D' and 'Smiley Face' configurations within a round outer diameter. Dual-lumen tubing can also be manufactured with custom shaped lumens.
Balloon tubing
Balloon tubing can be produced from a number of polymers. Balloon tubing typically has tight tolerance requirements as well as cosmetic and mechanical requirements.
Profile Multi-lumen Extrusions
Profile multi-lumen extrusion is a type of tubing with two or more lumens that can be round or customized in shape. It is used for delivery of air, wire, fluids, sensors, and other materials.
Overcoating
Polymer overcoating / overjacketing can be perfomed in single-lumen, dual-lumen, multi-lumen and profile extrusion configurations. Some common overcoating substrates include metal wires, kevlar thread, braided shafts, monofilaments and other extrusions such as think walled PEEK or PTFE catheter liners.
Overcoating can be performed on a continuous length as well as discrete lengths in single or multiple intermittent sections and can have a single substrate or multiple substrates. Overcoating PEEK or PTFE catheter liners can drastically reduce overall catheter cost by eliminating costly reflow operations.
Overcoating can be performed on a continuous length as well as discrete lengths in single or multiple intermittent sections and can have a single substrate or multiple substrates. Overcoating PEEK or PTFE catheter liners can drastically reduce overall catheter cost by eliminating costly reflow operations.
Intermittent Wire
Using Axis Medical Extrusions proprietary technology and process development, we've been able to successfully create a process of overcoating short segments of wire at precisely controlled linear spacing. Wire diameters as low as 41AWG (.0027"). Intermittent wire segments can be comprised of the same wire materials or variable wire materials.
Profile Extrusions
Profile extrusions have a non-round outer profile. Profile extrusions can have a solid core or a single-lumen that can be round or also a custom profile shape. Profiles can also come in a multi-lumen configuration.
Catheter Tubing Extrusions
MTS can produce catheter tubing extrusions such as shafts, sheaths, tips, balloons, etc.
Multi-lumen Tubing
Multi-lumen tubing has numerous holes that can be round or customized with various geometric shapes.
Benefits
- Allow heat-transfer fluid circulation
- Measure distal pressure
- Insulate electrical conductors
- Allow introduction of a guide wire
- Inflate a balloon
Typical Applications
- Venous catheter
- Balloon catheter
- Multifunction catheter
- Cannula
Reinforced
Reinforcement can be performed over a braided core with a liner in single-lumen, dual-lumen, multi-lumen and profile extrusion configurations.
Benefits
- Improve crush resistance with coil-reinforcement
- Improve torque transmission with braid-reinforcement
- Improve performance under pressure with high-pressure tubing
Typical Applications
- Crush resistant tubing
- Catheters
- High-pressure extension lines
- Shaft for single use endoscopes
Coextruded
Benefits
- Have striped tubing such as radiopaque stripe which is visible under X-Ray
- Add a coloured marker line
- Combine the mechanical properties of two material
Typical Applications
- Tubing for epidural catheters (radiopaque lines)
- Urology catheter
Extrusions
Tight Tolerance Extrusions
We use our knowledge of tool design, process development and closed loop feedback controls to achieve tight tolerances by reducing long-term and short-term process variation.
Tolerances as low as +/- .00025″
Balloon tubing
In addition to single layer tubing, balloon tubing can be produced from a number of polymers. Balloon tubing typically has tight tolerance requirements as well as cosmetic and mechanical requirements; may be designed as a two or three layer design.
Profile Multi-lumen Extrusions
Multi-lumen extrusion is a type of tubing with two or more lumens that can be round or customized in shape. It is used for delivery of air, wire, fluids, sensors, and many other materials.
Reinforced Multi Lumen
Reinforced Multi Lumen has an additional material type to allow advanced characteristics to tubing designs. The design can be customized to various shapes and material blends. It can be manufactured using various engineering thermoplastic resins and can also be extruded with an internal or external profile configuration.
Overcoating
Overcoating can be performed on single-lumen, dual-lumen, and multi-lumen extrusion profiles. Some common overcoating’s include metal wires, braided shafts, monofilaments and other extrusions such as Acetal, PEEK, and substrate coated liners. Overcoating catheter liners can drastically reduce overall catheter cost by eliminating costly reflow operations.
Multi-lumen Tubing
Multi-lumen tubing has three or more lumens that can be round or customized with various shapes. It is commonly used to deliver air, fluids, or wires in medical and industrial applications. It can be manufactured using various engineering thermoplastic resins and can also be extruded with an external profile configuration.
Multi-lumen extrusions can also be extruded in an external profile configuration.
Dual-lumen Tubing
Dual-lumen tubing is commonly comprised of 2 round holes or the popular ‘Double D’ and ‘Smiley Face’ configurations within a round outer diameter. Dual-lumen tubing can also be manufactured with custom shaped lumens.
Taper/Bump Extrusion
Tapered or bump extrusions have one or two layer outer diameter sizes along a continuous length. Inner diameters can remain as a constant along the extrusion length or also have a tapered configuration. Tapered extrusions can come in multi-lumen or co-extrusion.
Intermittent Wire
Using Axis Medical Extrusions proprietary technology and process development, we've been able to successfully create a process of overcoating short segments of wire at precisely controlled linear spacing. Wire diameters as low as 41AWG (.0027"). Intermittent wire segments can be comprised of the same wire materials or variable wire materials.
Profile Extrusions
Profile extrusions have a non-round outer profile. Profile extrusions can have a solid core or a single-lumen that can be round or also a custom profile shape. Profiles can also come in a multi-lumen configuration.
Catheter Tubing Extrusions
MTS can produce catheter tubing extrusions such as shafts, sheaths, tips, balloons, etc.
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Monofilament
Monofilaments are often referred to as rod or beading. Monofilaments are solid round extrusions that can be manufactured out of virtually all thermoplastic polymers.
Monofilament diameters as low as .003″
Thin Wall Tubing
As technology advances, so does the requirement for smaller, thinner extruded components. MTS can produce tubing with thin walls to keep up with the industry demands.
Wall thicknesses as low as .0007″
Paratubing
Paratubing is made from two or more round tubes that have a thin web between them to hold them together. Paratubing is commonly referred to a peel apart tubing. Paratubing users require a set of tubes that are bonded together over their length but can be separated at different lengths for independent connectivity.
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Micro-Diameter Extrusions/ Flow Restrictors
MTS uses proprietary tool design and processing techniques to produce precision micro diameter extrusions with outer diameters as low as .0025″ and inner diameters as low as 7.5 microns (0.0003″). MTS can produce the smallest inner diameter extrusions in the market, replacing more costly glass and stainless-steel alternatives. Micro diameter extrusions are available in single and multi-lumen configurations.
Common uses for micro inner diameters extrusions include drug delivery devices requiring ultra low and precise flow restriction.
Lead Tubing
MTS provides lead tubing with the highest levels of cosmetic clarity and dimensional stability. Urethane is a common thermoplastic polymer used for lead tubing. The urethane extrusion process requires a high level of understanding of polymer science and extrusion processing techniques MTS has many years of experience producing lead tubing to the highest standards.
Tight Tolerance Extrusions
At MTS, we use our knowledge of tool design, process development and closed loop feedback controls to achieve tight tolerances by reducing long-term and short-term process variation.
Tolerances as low as +/- .00025″
Single-Lumen Tubing
Single-lumen tubing has a single hole with a round outer diameter. Some examples of common single-lumen extrusions include shaft tubing, balloon tubing, flow restrictors, IV tubing and sheaths. Single-lumen tubing can be extruded using different polymers with or without additives such as colorants, surface modifiers to enhance lubricity or radiopacifiers for fluoroscopy or x-ray.
Co-extrusion
Co-extrusions can be comprised of two layers of separate polymer materials bonded together during the extrusion process, giving different desired physical characteristics on the internal and external surfaces.
Another common co-extrusion is a striped configuration using a primary polymer along with a secondary polymer added as a stripe or multiple stripes in different locations around the circumference of the extrusion. Stripes are commonly produced using radiopaque or colored polymers.
Tri-extrusion/Tri-layer
Co-extrusions can be comprised of two layers of separate polymer materials bonded together during the extrusion process, giving different desired physical characteristics on the internal and external surfaces.
Another common co-extrusion is a striped configuration using a primary polymer along with a secondary polymer added as a stripe or multiple stripes in different locations around the circumference of the extrusion. Stripes are commonly produced using radiopaque or colored polymers.
Taper/Bump Extrusion
Tapered or bump extrusions have one or two layer outer diameter sizes along a continuous length. Inner diameters can remain as a constant along the extrusion length or also have a tapered configuration. Tapered extrusions can come in multi-lumen or co-extrusion.