Confluent Opens Specialty Medical Polymer Tubing Center of Excellence

Confluent Medical Technologies has opened a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Specialty Polymer Tubing center of excellence.
 
This new state-of-the-art facility greatly expands Confluent’s ability to provide customers with complex delivery systems for structural heart, neurovascular, and peripheral vascular applications. The capabilities of this new location include PTFE liners, polyimide tubing, multi-layer composite tubing (braided and non-braided), and coated wire.
 
“Having a strong manufacturing location here in the U.S. is vital to supporting our growing customer base,” says Confluent President and CEO Dean Schauer. “Combine this new site’s capabilities with our complex catheter offerings out of our Austin, Texas, site and you have a powerful partner in Confluent Medical to assist with your catheter shaft needs.”
 
With the addition of filmcast technology, Confluent strengthens its vertically integrated supply chain by offering thin-walled, tightly tolerance engineered tubing. The Chattanooga site, with a technical team having over 175 years of combined experience in medical device manufacturing, will also partner with OEMs to provide customized tubing for demanding devices.
 
Confluent’s engineered solutions to the most challenging design problems enables OEM medical device customers to offer life-saving products. Its customers rely on Confluent for materials science and associated manufacturing expertise which is critical to the function and value of their most demanding, high growth products—proprietary expertise that spans processing of high purity Nitinol, ultra-high density knitting of biomedical textiles and precision laser treatment of specialty polymers. Confluent partners with leading OEMs to create a selective product portfolio which includes such complex applications as transcatheter heart valves, neurovascular implants, endovascular stent grafts and advanced smart catheters. The company operates facilities in Fremont and Laguna Niguel, Calif.; Warwick, R.I.; Windham, Maine; Austin, Texas; Chattanooga, Tenn.; and San Jose, Cost Rica.