Biomerics -Advanced Catheters & Steerables
We specialize in the design, development, and manufacturing of complex, highly specialized catheters, steerable devices, and delivery systems for interventional markets. We’ve worked with customers on steerable balloon catheters, steerable neurovascular devices, and delivery devices for structural heart implants, to name a few. As your vertically integrated partner, we have the end-to-end services to guide you through the entire product development lifecycle.
Our Advanced Catheters & Steerables Center of Excellence comprises our core capabilities including full design control services, materials expertise, engineered components, and full contract manufacturing of finished devices. With decades of experience, we have a track record of bringing cutting-edge devices and technologies to market, effectively and efficiently. Our capabilities include:
- Braiding
- Coil winding
- Laser cutting and welding
- Thermoforming
- ``Smart catheters``
- Steerable & deflectable configurations
- Tapered shafts
- Multidurometer shafts
- Multilumen shafts
The engineers at our Advanced Catheter Center of Excellence understand the advanced capabilities that your engineering team needs when looking for the best partner to bring your innovative interventional device to market, including:
- Advanced composite construction
- Multidurometer shaft transitions
- Pushability/torquability/trackability
- Hydrophilic coatings
- Handle design
- Multilumen configurations
- Bending and articulation
- ISO 13485 certified
- 650+ team members
- 170,000 square feet
- ISO 7 & 8 cleanroom space
- 21 braid machines
- 18 balloon machines
- 19 lamination systems
- 10 extruders
- 10 molding machines
- 3 coating systems
- 4 vision metrology systems
- Instron® torque & tensile testers
Our cross-functional team can work with you to design and engineer the manufacturing process for steerable or deflectable devices for a wide range of demanding applications, such as endoscopic shafts. Our solutions include:
- Unidirectional, bidirectional & quad-directional devices
- Single-plane (single- or dual-wire), dual-plane (4-wire), and dual-plane (single-wire) deflection
- Customizable articulation segments
- Sub-3 Fr to 40 Fr diameters