HPC Medical Products - a part of Teleflex Medical OEM Company Profile

HPC Medical Products, a part of Teleflex Medical OEM, is a leader in microdiameter wiring and tubing products for catheter assemblies and medical devices. The company manufactures uninsulated and insulated fine and ultra-fine wire; polymer tubing, and coated hypo tubing. Typical applications include drug and stent delivery catheter shafts, endoscopes, electrophysiology and diagnostic catheters, and neurovascular devices.

Teleflex Medical OEM: Work With The Experts™

- Fully vertically-integrated product development and manufacturing capabilities
- Deep expertise
- Focus on design for manufacturability
- Decades of experience
- Worldwide network of world-class facilities
- EPIC Medtec® Centers – global hubs for product development and innovation for sutures/performance fibers and catheters/access devices

Teleflex Medical OEM is the partner that can hear what you are saying, understand your needs, and arrive at innovative, highly-customized solutions. That is why we are the “go to people” for OEMs worldwide who want to partner with a proven leader in custom-engineered:

- Extrusions
- Micro-diameter tubing
- Diagnostic and interventional catheters
- Balloons, balloon catheters, and balloon tubing
- Film-insulated, fine wire
- Coated mandrel wire
- Conductors
- Sheath/dilator sets 
- Specialized sutures and performance fibers
- Bioabsorbable sutures, yarns, and resins

Teleflex Medical OEM offers you everything from raw materials to components to finished devices. Contact us to discover how we can be of assistance to you and your product development team.

TUBING

Our tubing designs are used extensively in catheters and medical devices for urology, cardiology, neurology, endoscopy, and laparoscopy applications. Customized manufacturing is possible, with inside diameters ranging from .0910” (2.31mm) to .0020” (.0508mm) and wall thickness of .0003” (.008mm) to .007” (.178 mm).
Our tubing is used extensively in catheters and  medical devices for urology, cardiology, neurology, endoscopy, and laparoscopy applications.

Reinforced Tubing

• Braid, coil, and longitudinally reinforced tubes
• Embedded reinforcement materials

Thermoplastics

Our proprietary coating process utilizes liquefied, medical-grade thermoplastics to create innovative polymer tubing and insulated wire products.

Soft and flexible, Pebax® improves thermal bond ability and flexibility when applied as a topcoat for polyimide tubng. Pebax® polymer is available in different durometers from 72D to 40D.

Polyimide Tubing

Polyimide is a cross-linked thermoset polymer that is comprised of organic compounds that were originally developed and formulated by DuPont®. Our polyimide tubing is used for medical and electrical applications with inside diameters ranging from .0028 to .091 inches (.0711 to 2.31 mm).

Particle composites are used to produce radiopacity, lubricity or significantly improve thermal conductivity. We have the expertise to deliver the composites you need, such as radiopaque polyimide tubing as well as boron nitride polyimide with more thermal conductivity than standard polyimide properties.

Our tungsten-loaded polyimide-tubing product is inherently radiopaque for visibility under X-ray and fluoroscopy.

Hybrid tubing, which typically consists of a polyimide base layer with a thermoplastic outer layer, is constructed from both thermoset polyimide and a thermoplastic polymer including: Pebax®, Nylon, or Tecoflex®. Our hybrid tubing is perfect for applications that require diameters of .0080 to .065 inches (.2032 to 1.651 mm) combined with the strength of polyimide as well as the added benefit of flexibility and thermal bonding.

Lubricious Tubing

PTFE and low friction PD-Slick™ (a blend of PTFE and polyimide) are specially designed as medical tubing liner or as a wire coating. PD-Slick™ is:

• Gamma radiation resistant
• USP Class VI biocompatibility
• Can be used to coat the inside or outside diameter of a tubing product
• Lower friction with the material properties of polyimide

Value Added Services

Our pure polymer or particle composite tubing can be cut to precise lengths as short as .05 inches, with a length tolerance of plus or minus .005 inches. This process is ideal for lengths between .05 to 5.0 inches. Lengths that are 3.0 inches or less are usually provided in a jar container for easy access and storage. Parts are de-ionized during cutting to reduce static and make for easier handling.

Our process is capable of cutting tubing with OD's of .011 inches to .091 inches, for thermocouple caps, electrical insulating sleeves, as well as bundling collars for groups of wires or fibers.

Laser Stripped Wire

Laser ablation, or laser wire stripping, is a non-mechanical and non-chemical method to remove the outer polymer layer or coating from specific locations on a given wire substrate. The result is clean, undamaged wire that has not been damaged by mechanical cutting blades. Or in the case of chemical stripping, eliminates exposing employees to harsh chemicals and eliminates disposal costs.

Many medical device applications require material removal to expose an insulated wire’s underlying metal conductor. Due to the small wire diameter requirement in...