Cirtec Medical Company Profile

CIRTEC MEDICAL

Your Outsourcing Partner for Complex Medical Devices

For over 30 years, Cirtec has been a vertically integrated, full-service outsource partner providing end-to-end product design, development and manufacturing of Class II and III medical devices and components. We specialize in today’s most advanced product technologies including:

• Neuromodulation
• Implantable drug delivery
• Cardiac rhythm management
• Ventricular assist
• Structural heart
• Minimally invasive therapeutic systems

DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Cirtec has the technical expertise needed to design innovative medical devices, solve complex design challenges and help bring your device to market. Our approach to product development enables us to design, test, validate and manufacture all the controls, electrical and mechanical parts within the most complex systems.

Innovative Engineering:

• Proof of Concept
• Industrial Design and Human Factors
• Mechanical and Electromechanical
• Software, Hardware and Firmware
• Design Verification Testing
• Design Transfer

PRECISION COMPONENTS

As a vertically-integrated, full-service outsource partner, we can design, develop, and manufacture all the components in your devices. Specializing in complex, difficult to product components, Cirtec has developed innovative medical machining processes and advanced tooling systems to manufacture medical device assemblies with the highest level of quality and efficiency.

• Machining and Swiss Turning
• Precision Stamping
• Coil Winding
• Wire EDM
• Hermetic Welding and Testing
• Nitinol Tubing
• Laser Processing
• ASICs
• Thin-Film Circuits
• PCBAs

FINISHED DEVICE ASSEMBLY

Cirtec has the capabilities to bring your product to full production, including assembly, packaging, and testing and in-house EO and steam autoclave sterilization. We specialize in:

• Active Implants
• Leads
• Catheter-Based Delivery Devices
• Mechanical and Electromechanical Devices

NITINOL PROCESSING

Cirtec is uniquely positioned as a comprehensive provider of high-quality Nitinol tubing and Nitinol processing services for the medical device industry. Cirtec combines our Nitinol know-how with significant metalworking expertise. Our capabilities include:

• Laser-cutting
• Heat-setting
• Electropolishing
• EDM work
• 5-axis machining
• Grinding

INTERVENTIONAL DELIVERY SYSTEMS

With the acquisition of NovelCath, Cirtec has additional capabilities to provide minimally invasive interventional delivery systems ranging from structural heart to electrophysiology and neurovascular applications. We are able to provide highly engineered braided and coiled reinforced catheter shafts, complex steerable and multi-directional sheath designs, and microcatheters.

NEUROMODULATION CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Cirtec is committed to serving as the leading end-to-end outsource partner in the neuromodulation market.  Coming in 2021, this state-of-the-art facility, located in Brooklyn Park, MN, will focus on active implantable device manufacturing and clean room assembly of neuromodulation leads, implantable pulse generators (IPGs) and accessories.

This facility will enhance our offering across the full range of devices and accessories offered through our SIMPLIFI™ R&D Neuromodulation Platform featuring our customizable ACCEL and ACCEL+ platforms:

• Implantable pulse generators (IPGs), trial pulse generators, patient remotes, clinician programmers and IPG chargers
• A portfolio of percutaneous leads, and paddle leads, extensions and locking anchors
• Vertically integrated printed circuit board assemblies, stamped and machined enclosures, custom connector blocks and feedthroughs
• A variety of sterile packaging solutions, final assembly, and in-house EO sterilizationA variety of sterile packaging solutions, final assembly, 

OUR FACILITIES

Cirtec has nine locations:

Brooklyn Park, MN 1 – Corporate Headquarters

• Precision machining
• Coil winding
• Neurostimulation leads assembly
• Cleanroom assembly
• Laser welding
• Nitinol processing

Brooklyn Park, MN 2– Neuromodulation Center of Excellence - Coming in 2021

• Manufacturing/assembly of leads
• Manufacturing/assembly of IPG’s
• Mechanical assemblies
• Catheter-based devices
• SIMPLIFI™ R&D Neuromodulation Platform

Brooklyn Park, MN  – NovelCath A Cirtec Company

• Design collaboration/development/manufacturing
• Highly engineered braided and coiled reinforced catheter shafts
• Complex steerable and multi-directional sheath designs
• Microcatheters

Chandler, AZ 

• Full custom ASIC design —focus on Class III Devices
• Contract Engineering Services—Analog and Digital IC Design, IC Test, Qualification
• Application Specific Standard Products—Neuro Stimulation & Neuro Sensing

Costa Rica

• Low-cost labor solution for Cirtec clients
• Prime facility for line transfer business
• Leads/Device assembly

Enfield, CT

• Active device development
• Mechanical engineering
• Commercial IPG production
• Mechanical engineering
• Welding / hermetic welding
• Packaging and EO sterilization

Los Gatos, CA

• MIS device design and development
• VAD design and development
• EE/SW/Firmware design
• Mechanical engineering
• Rapid prototyping – 3D printing

Lowell, MA

• Thin-film circuits - Single layer/Multi-layer
• Flexible microcircuits - RF applications/Biosensor applications
• Precision electroforming
• Proprietary photolithography process
• Miniaturization
• SMT line

Vascotube a Cirtec Company – Birkenfeld, Germany

Precision implantable Nitinol tubing for:

• Heart Valves
• TAVR and TMVR Stents
• Peripheral Vascular Stents
• Neurovascular Stents

Other tube materials include:

• Cobalt-Chromium
• L-605
• Tantalum
• Titanium
• Magnesium