Leading products: stents tubing today
Stents and cardiac valves are vascular implants manufactured from a laser cut tube. Technical and quality requirements on the tube are extremely demanding.
The quality of our implant tubing enables us to supply the world's largest stent producers. Minitubes offers a unique quality, specific to stents, in several alloys such as 316LVM, cobalt alloys and Nitinol.
Stent designers face difficult challenges. At Minitubes, we have succeeded in understanding them in depth, in order to offer a tubing quality that meets the highest demands:
- a choice of alloys for both balloon inflatable and self-expendable designs
- an extreme selectivity in raw materials for biocompatibility and micro/macro material homogeneity
- seamless tube for improved fatigue resistance
- new limits in dimensional accuracy on Outer Diameter and Wall Thickness for improved laser cutting and struts dimensions consistency
- very smooth ID and OD for optimized electropolishing and subsequent coating
- controlled mechanical properties for controlled physical behavior and minimized recoil
- optimized grain size to compromise between fatigue resistance and electropolishing performance
- proven inspection methods (high-end instruments, adequate sampling, statistical analysis...) for reliable characterization and improved yield of customer's production
- full certification for easy customer's device registration
Our team is available to assist you in your device development and material selection with technical expertise and large inventory of stock items.
For any question, please contact the Implant tubing manager.
Numerous dimensions in stock for R&D purposes: Niti tubing stock list and Implant tubing stock list.
... Cardiac valves tubing tomorrow.
Minitubes' unique experience and process enable to reach unmatched Wall Thickness consistency for such large and thin tubes. We keep improving our technical performances and production capacity to anticipate tomorrow's challences cardiac valves will offer.
