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AdvanSource Biomaterials, Wilmington, MA, 978/657-0075
Command Medical Products, Ormond Beach, FL, 386/672-8116
Comrades Inc., Tokyo, Japan, +81 3 54100681
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Dearborn Precision, Fryeburg, ME, 207/935-2171
DirectMed Inc., Glen Cove, NY, 516/656-3377
Eagle Stainless Tube & Fabrication Inc., Franklin, MA, 800/528-8650 47 5
Eldon James Corp., Loveland, CO, 970/667-2728
Ensinger-Hyde, Washington, PA, 724/746-6050
ExtruMed, Placentia, CA, 714/993-4100
Filtrona Extrusion, Athol, MA, 978/249-5343
Fluorotherm Polymers Inc., Parsippany, NJ, 877/777-2629
Gore, Newark, DE, 877/467-3636 43
Helix Medical, Carpinteria, CA, 805/684-3304 58
Hurd & Associates Inc., Chanhassen, MN, 952/470-5274
ISPG Inc., New Milford, CT, 860/355-8511
Johnson Matthey, West Chester, PA, 610/648-8000
Kent Elastomer Products Inc., Kent, OH, 800/331-4762 3
Medical Extrusion Technologies Inc., Murrieta, CA, 951/698-4346 2
MicroLumen Inc., Tampa, FL, 813/886-1200
Microspec Corp., Peterborough, NH, 603/924-4300
Modified Polymer Components Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 408/733-8900 4
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COMPANY DESCRIPTIONS
AdvanSource Biomaterials
Specializes in research, development,
scale-up, and manufacture of biomedical
polymers specifically tailored to customer
requirements. Materials are biocompatible, biodurable, and possess controlled hy-drophilicity. Antimicrobial and radiopaque
materials are also available.
www.advbiomaterials.com
Command Medical
Products
Provides contract manufacturing of disposable, single-use medical devices. With manufacturing facilities in the United States
and Managua, Nicaragua, the company
is positioned to accommodate both high-volume manufacturing as well as facilitate
and fast-track low-volume clinical trials
and product launches.
www.commandmedical.com
DirectMed Inc.
Offers plastic components and subassemblies, including ports, connectors, needleless
injection sites, check valves, luers, and flow
regulators. Kit components such as umbil-ical-cord clamps and stopcocks also are
available. Connectors, tubing, and filters
for respiratory applications are supplied in
adult, pediatric, and neonatal sizes.
www.directmed.com
Eagle Stainless Tube &
Fabrication Inc.
Supplies stainless-steel tubing products.
The company offers precision cut-to-length
tubing, custom-fabricated stainless-steel
components, custom-shaped and custom-sized tubing, and stainless-steel metric tubing. It is ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100 Rev.
B certified.
www.eagletube.com
ExtruMed
Manufactures high-precision extruded tubing for use in medical applications. The
company was founded in 1990 to serve
OEMs’ needs for quick turnaround on
custom extrusions. The company’s tubing
products are used in cardiac rhythm management, neurostimulation, endoscopy, lap-aroscopy, and endovascular applications.
www.extrumed.com
Filtrona Extrusion
Produces precision thermoplastic medical
extrusions in a pyrogen-controlled Class
100,000 cleanroom. The ISO 9001:2000–
and ISO 14001–certified company offers capabilities in in-line measurement
and in-house wire EDM. It also provides
single- and multilumen tubing, reinforced
high-pressure tubing, coextrusions, custom
profiles, secondary operations, and subassembly. It also processes non-DEHP materials, PE, PP, PU, PC, HIS, radiopaque
materials, and PVC alternatives.
www.filtronaextrusion.com
Hurd & Associates Inc.
Offers precision-engineered components
and cleanroom assembly for catheters and
laparoscopic instruments. Products include
thin-wall and ultrathin-wall extruded tubing, as well as Pebax and polyolefin heat-shrink tubing, and fabricated metal tubular
shafts. The company also offers burr-free
thin metal blades and lances.
www.hurdreps.com
ISPG Inc.
Supplies custom-ground stainless-steel
cannulae with low penetration values. The
company performs such secondary operations as notching, bending, grit blasting,
swaging, chamfering, and etch marking.
Custom needles with metal or plastic hubs,
including lancet- and pencil-point spinal
needles, epidural needles, and introducer
needles, can be produced.
www.ispg.com
MicroLumen Inc.
Manufactures high-performance polyimide
tubing that provides high torque, tractabil-ity, kink-resistance, and flexibility. Braid -
and coil-reinforced designs are available, as
well as fluoropolymer coatings and a variety of colors. The USP Class VI–compliant
tubing is offered in various wall thicknesses
and tolerances. Typical medical applications include catheters and drug-delivery
devices.
www.microlumen.com
Microspec Corp.
Produces a variety of extrusions using most
thermoplastics, polyurethane, and nylon.
The company’s product range includes
multilumen, single, bump tubing, and co-extrusion tubing. Other tubing products
offered include overextrusion, microextru-sion, striped, multi-layered wall, and profile
extrusion tubing.
www.microspeccorporation.com
New England Wire
Technologies
Manufactures custom braid-reinforced
medical tubing, lined catheter shafts, and
hybrid tubing. Capabilities include bonding
layers of thermoplastic to fluoropolymer,
manufacturing thin-wall close-tolerance
tubing, and braiding all types of round or
flat wire.
www.newenglandwire.com
NewAge Industries Inc.
Provides flexible plastic and rubber tubing
and hose products for medical devices and
such applications as dialysis equipment,
fluid transfer, peristaltic pumps, and ventilation machinery. The company is experienced in working with plastic and rubber
materials that meet 3A, NSF, USP Class
VI, including PVC, silicone, fluoropolymer,
thermoplastic rubber, latex, nylon, polypropylene, and polyethylene.
www.newageindustries.com
Qosina Corp.
Supplies components made from stock
molds and a range of off-the-shelf products for rapid sourcing. The company has
supplied components and disposables to
OEM device manufacturers since 1980. In
addition to tubing, it offers a selection of
bottles, caps, check valves, clamps, connectors, containers, fittings, forceps, luers,
spikes, stopcocks, and syringes.
www.qosina.com
Raumedic Inc.
Provides tubing extrusion and precision injection molding services, as well as fabrication and assembly of medical subassemblies
and systems. The company offers polymer
processing, including in-house material research, compounding, prototyping, and applications and process engineering.
www.raumedic.com
Teleflex Medical OEM
Provides custom medical devices and orthopedic surgical instruments. The company
offers custom extrusions made from PTFE
and FEP as well as other high-performance
resins. In addition to providing heat-shrink
and standard extrusion tubing, the company
also offers etched liners and other precision
products that incorporate ultra-thin walls,
profiles, multilumen, and braid-reinforced
tubing.
www.teleflexmedicaloem.com
Unimed S.A.
Manufactures custom stainless-steel needles and probes, tubular components, luer
adapters, and stopcocks. The company
stocks a selection of stainless-steel tubing
and wire from 0.1 to 10mm OD. The tubing
is available in 1-m cuts or precise lengths.
www.unimed.ch
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