Nordson MEDICAL offers a complete, one-source solution to your catheter and cannulae device needs. We can partner with you in all phases of catheter development, from design and development through manufacturing and assembly. This seamless integration brings you the most cost-effective, innovative, catheter-based devices on the market.
Building on Market-Leading Components
Our approach to catheter-based devices builds on our deep expertise and experience with complex components, including:
- Custom medical balloons
- Complex extrusions
- Specialized medical tubing
- Reinforced shafts
Specialized Tubing Expertise
Many catheter assemblies need specialized tubing to support complex performance requirements, like guidewire tracking, fluid flow, passage of other devices, and more. Our advanced extrusion and specialized medical tubing capabilities provide solutions for your catheter design challenges, including multi-layer tubing, polyimide tubing, PTFE tubing, and reinforced tubing. We also offer polymer solution casting, which allows you to build multiple performance characteristics into a single-piece construction. Contact us to learn more about our medical tubing offering.
Advanced Capabilities
We've made strategic investments to expand our capabilities, so we now offer a wide range of technologies from subassemblies to finished devices. Our team of 250+ dedicated, specialized catheter engineers and technicians can manage projects from concept to prototype, through FDA approval and full-scale manufacturing. Our catheter capabilities include:
- Over-the-wire catheters
- Rapid exchange (RX) catheters
- Fixed-wire catheters
Single-Source Solution for Catheters and Coatings
Nordson MEDICAL has partnered with DSM, a global leader in biomedical materials, to offer you the option of integrating the development, testing, and application of hydrophilic lubricious coatings into the catheter manufacturing process.
With Nordson MEDICAL as your single-source partner, there's no need to transfer finished devices to another supplier for development and coating application services. This streamlines your supply chain and saves time and cost.
These best-in-class coatings:
- Facilitate catheter maneuverability and enhance patient comfort
- Are UV-cured for consistent quality and uniformity
- Can be customized to meet specific device requirements
Contact us to discuss your application and device requirements.
Catheter Center of Excellence
Our Catheter Center of Excellence brings together our expertise in manufacturing leading-edge components with technical support resources to offer a complete solution to your catheter-based device needs. This vertical integration saves costs and speeds time to market.
Wide Range of Applications
We make catheters for a wide range of clinical applications, including, but not limited to:
- Renal denervation
- Neuro embolization
- Cryoablation
- Balloon sinuplasty
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
- Drug delivery
- Endovascular AAA repair
- Balloon occlusion
- Hypothermic cooling
- Ablation
- Lumbar discectomy
- Balloon angioplasty
- Esophageal dilation
- Atherectomy
- Balloon carpal tunnelplasty
- Neuromodulation
- Laser lithotripsy
- Cardiac pacing
- Kyphoplasty
- Perfusion
