We know balloons: creating more than 20,000 medical balloons each week
We partner with customers to design, develop, and engineer custom balloons and balloon catheters. Our scalable, end-to-end services support your project from prototype through full-scale production, packaging and distribution. Our vertically integrated structure — combined with our industry-leading expertise in polymers and extrusion — helps us to quickly and efficiently bring to life innovative medical balloons and balloon catheters.
Balloons & Balloon Catheters Center of Excellence
To drive speed to market, our vertically integrated Balloons & Balloon Catheters Center of Excellence brings together every step of the balloon-making process under one roof, from design through finished device:
- Balloon tubing extrusion
- Catheter shaft extrusion
- Injection molding
- In-house balloon tooling
- Blow molding
- Assembly
- Packaging
- EtO sterilization management
Engineered advantage
The engineers at our Balloon & Balloon Catheter Center of Excellence understand the advanced capabilities that your engineering team is looking for when bringing a balloon or balloon catheter to market, including:
- High-pressure balloons
- Advanced composite construction
- Optimized introducer compatibility
- Minimal balloon deformation at rated burst pressure (RBP)
- Tip optimized for radiopacity or sheathless access
- Rapid inflation/deflation times
- Multidurometer shaft transitions
- Pushability / torquability / trackability
- Coatings
In-house testing lab
With application engineering labs at every location, we have the expertise and test capabilities to support most catheter testing requirements.
We offer test method development and validation as well as testing services to support your needs during product validation and verification. All tests are documented using our Quality Management Systems and are managed through protocols and controlled engineering reports.
Team members at our Balloon & Balloon Catheter Center of Excellence assess dimensional and functional characteristics using sophisticated equipment including:
- Vision system for measuring dimensional characteristics
- Instron® testing system for tensile strength and compression testing
- Fatigue and hydraulic burst-leak testing (HBLT)
Take a virtual tour of our Balloon & Balloon Catheter Center of Excellence
Visit us virtually at our Athens, Texas, facility, where we welcome you in to take a look at our manufacturing and assembly space, extrusion lines, warehouse, R&D lab, and more.
Balloon catheters for a wide range of applications
We manufacture balloons and balloon catheters for a broad spectrum of interventional markets and clinical applications, including:
- Aortic occlusion balloons
- Atrial defect sizing balloon catheters
- Centering catheters
- GI biofeedback catheters
- Left ventricle anchoring balloon catheters
- Pressure monitoring catheters
- PTA & PTCA catheters
- Stent placement catheters
- Valve deployment catheters
Balloon Capabilities
| Type | Pressure | Material | Size | Manufacturing Technique |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Noncompliant |
High pressure |
|
|
Blown |
|
Semicompliant |
Medium to low pressure |
|
|
Blown |
| Compliant | Low pressure |
|
|
Blown |
Balloon Catheter Capabilities
|
Shaft Type |
|---|
| Coaxial |
| Dual lumen |
| Multilumen |
| Rapid exchange |
| Tapered |
|
Guidewire Compatibility |
|---|
| .014″ |
| .018″ |
| .021″ |
| .035″ |
| .038″ |
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