Catheter Technologies
Medical Device Manufacturing Equipment
Explore our comprehensive range of catheter manufacturing equipment, covering every step of the process from tube cutting to final assembly. Our precision offerings include tube cutting, hole forming, tipping, catheter laminating, balloon manufacturing solutions, automated systems and more. With our advanced equipment, you can streamline your manufacturing process, enhance efficiency, and ensure the highest quality standards. Partner with us to access the solutions you need to take your catheter production to the next level.
TF-9DHD Infeed/Throughfeed Centerless Grinder
The TF-9DHD Infeed/Throughfeed Centerless Grinder uses computer controls to grind both hard and soft materials including catheters, medical guidewires, and spinal cord stimulators. Inside the compact footprint is a 15HP main spindle motor powering an 8.625” wide work wheel combining to remove more material faster, and with better surface finishes, than similar machines with narrower grinding wheels. The TF-9DHD is designed to enhance productivity through a simple control interface and automation integration.
CAM.2 Micro Grinder
The CAM.2 Micro Grinder can produce flats, radiuses, needle points, and non-linear shapes; the perfect machine to grind complex medical guidewires, dental parts, and small precision parts for various industries. Combining the latest in multi-axis servo motor control, submicron positioning, and an intuitive 15″ HMI, the CAM.2 offers unmatched performance. With the CAM.2’s full-fledged G-code underpinnings, direct integration with CAD/CAM packages is seamless. Previously unproduceable parts can be made easily, with minimal setup time, and with limited operator training.
GT-610 Centerless Grinders
The Glebar modular GT-610 Series of precision Infeed/Thru-feed Centerless Grinders remove more material faster, and with better surface finishes than competing machines. Applications for machines within this series include aerospace fasteners, automotive transmission components, engine parts, and valve stems, PCD drill bits, arthroscopic bone shavers, bone drill blanks, medical device components, and more.
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Menghini
Challenge Converted OD grinders with custom tooling and soft grinding wheels all of which wear at a high rate. Setup and changeover time is significant and requires extensive mechanical adjustments.
Medical Precision Cutting Tools
With over twenty years of cutter development and hole-making experience, our applications team is equipped to satisfy the most-challenging hole dimension requirements. At MMT, our SYNEO brand manufactures medical
Medical Manufacturing Technologies Enhances Product Line with Acquisition of FEPeeler, Unveiling Advanced Heat Shrink Removal and Braided Catheter Cutting Solutions
CHARLOTTE, NC and MINNEAPOLIS, MN – April 14, 2025 – Medical Manufacturing Technologies (MMT), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management and a leading global provider of medical device manufacturing
Medical Bone Drill | GT-610 CNC
Challenge: Infeed grinding 0.010” on two diameters over a 7” long metal drill blank in one operation while maintaining 0.0002” diameter accuracy, .00006 roundness and maintaining part straightness and concentricity. Solution
Medical Bone Drill (Gauging | P4K)
Challenge: Lack of a clear, simple method to inspect the geometric profile of many components. Existing systems are slow, unreliable, and complex to operate. Solution Glebar’s P4K gauging system was designed
MCS-12 Single Axis Burr-Free ECG Cutoff Machine
The Tridex MCS-12 Single Axis Burr Free Electrochemical (ECG) Cutoff Machine features completely burr-free cutting, virtually eliminating the need for deburring or other corrective secondary operations and reducing scrap. Almost
Materials
NYLON Rilsamid® – 70D AESNO MED Rilsan® – 71D BESNO MED VESTAMID® Care ML – N/A ML (16, 18, 21, 24, 94) Grilamid TR® – 82D-85D TR-(55, 90) PEBA Polyether block
Marker Band Swager: MBS-250
The Interface Catheter Solutions branded Marker Band Swager, MBS-250, is compact and clean-room ready with 360° swaging performance for gradual and smooth diameter reduction of marker bands for catheter production.
Manual Skivers
FEPeeler ® Info Patent No. 11,167,439 Manual skivers are optimal for low-volume and small-scale manufacturing or prototyping where meticulous attention to detail is necessary. MMT’s FEPeeler Manual Skivers offer precise
Manual Orthopedic Pin Manufacturing Process Converted to Automated with 100% QC | GT-610
Challenge The operator would manually feed the stainless steel orthopedic pins into the centerless grinder then manually clean and gauge each pin. Manual input and adjustment were required during the
Manual machine grinding steel tubes for the medical industry replaced with a CE Certified micro grinder | TF-9DHD
Challenge Numerous manufacturers around the world find themselves with legacy equipment incapable of meeting the changing environmental and safety standards recommended by regulatory standards. The customer in this case was operating
Liner Stretcher
The CATH-TECH™ Liner Stretcher uses a combination of heat and tension to process a liner to a fixed mandrel. This automated process eliminates the need for the operator to hand stretch
Laser Measurement System (LMS)
Interface Catheter System Model LMS-100 is a bench-top measurement system designed specifically for catheter balloons. The system offers a non-contact solution to the typical problems encountered in the dimensional measurement
Irregular Shapes – Bulb Tipping Process
SPOTLIGHT ON: IRREGULAR-SHAPED TIPPING You are NOT limited by simple tapers on our Magnum & Quantum tipping machines. Your irregular-shaped tips can be proven out, improved, & developed for production with
Interface Catheter Solutions (ICS) Manufacturing Location Change FAQs
Interface Catheter Solutions – FAQ – Manufacturing Location Change Notification 1. Why is Interface Catheter Solutions relocating its facility? As part of our ongoing commitment to continuous improvement and operational
Infeed/Thrufeed Centerless Grinder: GT-610M
Built for the machine shop, the GT-610M Thrufeed Centerless Grinder is an affordable, compact, precision centerless thrufeed grinding machine. Featuring its 8-5/8″ wide x 10″ diameter work wheel, it can
Infeed/Thrufeed Centerless Grinder: GT-610 SD
The Glebar GT-610 SD is a Thrufeed/lnfeed Centerless Grinder designed to grind supermaterials such as polycrystalline diamonds and other hard materials where the process is unknown and challenging. This machine
Infeed/Thrufeed Centerless Grinder: GT-610 CNC
The Glebar GT-610 CNC Infeed / Throughfeed Precision Centerless Grinder is the complete “lights-out” solution for applications where a high degree of automation, data gathering, and gauging feedback is required.
Infeed/Thrufeed Centerless Grinder: GT-610
The Glebar GT-610 Infeed/Throughfeed Precision Centerless Grinder features a compact design that provides high horsepower, high rigidity, and superior slide positioning. Customizable controls are designed to integrate full turnkey automation
Increase Uptime by Controlling Work Wheel Speed to Effectively Utilize Super-Abrasive Wheels | GT-9AC
Current Process Super-abrasive grinding wheels require faster speeds to run effectively. Main machine spindles can have fixed speeds, limiting their ability to use CBN or Diamond grinding wheels. A fixed speed
Increase Productivity by Cutting Zirconium Tubes with ECG | CS1-E
Current Process Zirconium tubes are cut one at a time using carbide tools on a lathe. A lathe cutoff leaves burrs requiring deburring to achieve a smooth surface finish. Carbide
Increase Memory for Programming with Companion Software from Tridex Technology | CS1-EA
Current Process CS1 machines can store up to 100 setups, and PLC controlled SG machines can store up to 30 setups. This limits how many programs can be stored and
Improving operator and machine efficiencies through automatic work wheel dressing | TF-9DHD
Current Process Hydraulic dress cycles require high operator input reducing their efficiency. The traverse rate of the dressing tool is difficult to establish affecting surface quality. Inconsistent dressing of the
Hydrostatic Burst Tester
The Somex Automation High-Pressure Hydrostatic Burst Tester is a standalone unit using the hydrostatic principle, capable of generating test pressures in excess of 70 bar and burst testing a wide
Hydraulic Pressure Tester: HPT-3070
The PT-3070 is ideally suited for testing small plastic pressure retaining components such as welded or bonded plastic components and tubing assemblies that are typically encountered in many disposable medical
Hydraulic Pressure Tester: HPT-1000
The Hydraulic Pressure Testers provide critical hydraulic test functions for balloon catheters and components, including tubing and balloons. The HPT-1000 is easily programmable with a high visibility vacuum florescent display
Hot-Flo Heat Box
The Somex Automation Hot-Flo Heat Box is a benchtop Catheter Hot Air Nozzle System. The Heat Box features a digital readout of airflow, a ready lamp for temperature and airflow,
Hole Forming: Cathtip Flex Drill
Flex-Drill by CATHTIP is the most flexible, cost-effective option for hole forming in catheter prototypes and early development applications. The drill can be mounted or handheld and operated by a foot
Hole Forming: 400 Series
Save time and money when catheter hole drilling with the CATHTIP branded automated catheter hole punch machines. Make clean and fast catheter holes with this tabletop, four axis stepper motor-controlled
Hole Drilling: Accu-Drill SD
The Automated Catheter Hole Making solutions are powerful and safe solutions to hole-making needs of various shapes and sizes. Four models, ranging from one to four axes, allow for repeatable
Hole Drilling: Accu-Drill MD
The Manual Hole-Making solutions punch or drill precision holes in a variety of extruded tubing and injection molded applications. These manual catheter hole punching and manual medical tubing drilling machines
High Voltage Test System: Accu-Test HVT
The High Voltage Spark Tester (HVT) provides fast, accurate detection of metal-reinforced catheter shafts or coated guidewires. The catheter shaft detection machine features a wide product test range, optional automatic feeding and
Heat Setting Oven
Heat setting wrapped balloons at too high a temperature, such as those used for balloon forming, can lead to shrinkage and changes in mechanical properties. Heat setting at lower temperatures
Guidewires (Rapid Changeover | GT-9AC)
Challenge: A Medical device customer needed to rapidly changeover between a family of Nitinol guidewires having various lengths and geometries. Since the geometry of the components varied in length, the customer
Guidewires (Process Efficiency | CAM.2)
Challenge: To eliminate additional processes in the production of guidewires. The conventional process uses several machines to profile a shape in an interventional guidewire. Solution Glebar eliminated pre- and post- processes
Guidewires (Gauging | P4K)
Challenge: Lack of a clear, simple method to inspect the geometric profile of many components. Existing systems are slow, unreliable, and complex to operate. Solution Glebar’s P4K gauging system was designed
Guidewires (Cycle Time Reduction | CAM.2)
Challenge: Cycle time reduction and a sharp corner needed for a medical guidewire Solution The CAM.2 machine has several modes of operation configurable for different shaped guidewire geometries. In this case,
