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Stay up to date with the latest from Microcatheter Components. Our blog covers insights on precision micro extrusion, catheter design best practices, material selection guidance, and the manufacturing innovations shaping the future of minimally invasive medical devices.

Kano

Hitting the mark in custom micro-extrusions.  The specification isn’t the end.  It’s the beginning. We produce custom micro-extrusions to our customers’ specifications.  While the specification provides initial guidance it is often not complete enough to guarantee optimal results. Working with our customers’ engineers and buyers…

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Micro-Extrusion Done Right

Micro-Extrusion, Done Right It’s not hard to produce a small extrusion. It is possible to produce a micro-sized thermoplastic extrusion using oversized extrusion equipment and high melt strength raw materials.  The ability to produce extrusions in micro-sizes is just the…

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Delivering Precision.

Delivering Precision. You cannot inspect the variation out. You can only build the precision in. It is never really possible to inspect your way to precision. Anyone in the extrusion industry can probably recall inspectors with GO and NO GO…

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Why Layers? Behold a Tooth

Why Layers?  Behold a Tooth. Here at Microcatheter Components we are learning that Layers are enabling us to deliver performance in extrusions that just cannot be accomplished with a single material. Like the tooth, each layer makes its own unique contribution…

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Sometimes Sticky is Good.

Sometimes sticky is good…But not always.    Sometimes stickiness gets in the way. For many catheter designs soft durometers are key to flex and touch.  While they are easy to extrude they can be impossible to handle.  Getting all the soft…

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. Once a year we Americans stop for a moment and gather with family and friends in a spirit of gratitude.  In this Season of Thanksgiving, Microcatheter Components would like to say Thank You.  Thank you to our customers.  We…

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Behind the Specification

Medical Device Designer Engineers are often faced with tough choices.  Sourced components are key to enabling their designs, dimensions must be defined and the materials selected. Often the component specifications frame what can be easily known and practically measured.  It is…

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The Value of Precision

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.  W.Edwards Deming Precision matters.  Costs from variation are seldom well understood.  They live below the radar.  They compound as they move along the the assembly system and through the supply chain. Adaptations to…

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Serving Premature Babies

At Microcatheter Components we have big heart for babies and children.  We commit ourselves to supporting those technology leaders who pursue new medical device solutions for the pediatric market.  Our capabilities serve this market well.  Precision, miniaturization, multilayer capability –…

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Neurointerventional Microcatheters

The increase in minimally invasive neurointerventional procedures in a growing “baby boomer” population means microcatheters will continue to be critical for angiography, neurothrombectomy, balloon angioplasty and delivery of stents, coils and liquid embolics. Delivery of neurointerventional devices through critical pathways…

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