Arterial and vascular interventional products are based on a catheter design model of various diameters

Mechanical properties are essential for polymers used in minimally invasive devices. Some rely on the high tensile properties of engineering resins like PEEK, PI and PES. Other devices require highly elastic / flexible and low durometer resins like medical grade urethanes

Some designs require the outermost tube to be re-enforced with a metal or polymeric braid or coils to be embedded in the tube wall to prevent buckling of the device

Vascular catheter device designs that rely on small diameter and thin walled tubing

- Neurovascular catheters
- Cardiac catheters
- Billiary catheters
- Peripheral interventional catheters

Intravascular products often deploy stent made of metal or bioresorbable polymers infused with drugs

Vascular designs often use 5 or more different polymers extruded into tubing.

Specialty biopolymers designed specifically for implantation application needs

Drug eluting additives incorporated into bioresorbable polymers that deliver therapeutic effects over time

MI has extrusion equipment that can make product with as little as 50 grams of costly starting materials

Expensive implantable materials need to be combined and/or processed with minimum heat history using low volume, efficient mixing machinery

Extrusion of exploratory materials is well suited to the equipment used at MI

Many implantable polymer formulations are pelletized for post processing into implantable components

MI can also uniquely manufacture

- Pellets
- Tubing
- Strands
- Fiber
- Cast Film
directly from the low volume extrusion mixing machinery