{"id":2285,"date":"2025-09-17T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minitubes.cerfalunettes.fr\/overview\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:42:22","slug":"iso-13485-subcontractor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/iso-13485-subcontractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The specialist in precision miniature tubing
and tubular components, serving the most demanding applications.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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AN ORIGINAL TECHNOLOGY<\/strong>
For nearly 100 years, Minitubes has been designing its own processes. We constantly push the boundaries of tube precision, component complexity, material properties, and production costs. <\/p>

A DEDICATED TEAM AT YOUR SERVICE<\/strong>
Mastering a very wide range of techniques, we provide innovative solutions to our clients from design to the production of prototypes and large series of their products, tubes, components, and tubular assemblies.<\/p>

UNCOMPROMISING QUALITY<\/strong>
Everyone’s commitment to the total satisfaction of our clients through top-level quality assurance is first demonstrated by their loyalty. It is also evidenced by our ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certifications. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Quality<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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1. Continuously improve our quality organization<\/strong> to meet or exceed the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 standards.<\/p>

2. Engage with our clients as partners<\/strong> to define and formalize their requirements, in order to provide them with defect-free products and services that fully meet their functional and economic needs.<\/p>

3. Involve our employees<\/strong> in achieving our quality and service objectives.<\/p>

Two approvals from an accredited certification body: LRQA (Lloyd\u2019s Register Quality Assurance)
Manufacture of small precision metal tubes and tubular parts.
Assemblies from tubes.
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Nearly 550 employees<\/strong> work on a covered site of 21,000 m\u00b2 <\/strong>, of which 15,600 m\u00b2<\/strong> are dedicated to production.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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4 MAJOR TYPES OF APPLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTS\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Tubes for stents, tubes for heart valves<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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LIFE SCIENCES\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In vitro diagnostic needles, tubes and components for endoscopy and chromatography<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Tubes and parts for other medical applications, aeronautics, defense, and space, automotive, electronics, and watchmaking<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Technical Beginnings<\/h3>
Mr. Szmukler, the future founder, first encounters the challenge of manufacturing a precision tube.<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Strengthening Technical Expertise<\/h3>
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Developments to meet our clients' needs for custom precision tubes<\/h3>
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Developments to meet our clients' needs for custom precision tubes<\/h3>
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Developments to meet our clients' needs for custom precision tubes<\/h3>
The 4th generation, two great-grandchildren of Mr. Szmukler, takes over the management of Minitubes<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Overview The specialist in precision miniature tubingand tubular components, serving the most demanding applications. AN ORIGINAL TECHNOLOGYFor nearly 100 years, Minitubes has been designing its own processes. We constantly push the boundaries of tube precision, component complexity, material properties, and production costs. A DEDICATED TEAM AT YOUR SERVICEMastering a very wide range of techniques, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 23:53:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2285\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minitubes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}