Machine Solutions Catheter Manufacturing and Testing Equipment

Machine Solutions offers a wide variety of machines designed to help our customers make great medical devices. Our industry leading brands Beahm Designs, BW TEC AG, Crescent Design, Intec Automation MSI, PlasticWeld Systems, SEBRA, SteegerUSA, Vante, and Vela Technologies offer a expertly engineered solutions for your Medical Device Manufacturing and testing applications.

Explore Our Range of Capabilities

Machine Solutions offers a diverse range of cutting-edge solutions for medical device manufacturing. Our expertise encompasses 3D curing techniques like adhesive bonding and hydrophilic curing, along with world-class automation services for equipment design, manufacturing, and service support.

We specialize in braided shafts and lamination, offering textile, microelectronics, and medical braiders, as well as equipment such as coilers, stranders, lamination machines, mandrel extraction tools, tube cutting systems, and tube expanding equipment. Furthermore, we provide automated solutions for catheter tipping, covering flares, eyelets, catheter tips, end forming, flanging, hole forming, and skiving.

Our capabilities also extend to tube bonding, with options including hot air thermoplastic tube bonding, laser welding, resistive heat dies, RF tube bonding, and heat sealing. Additionally, Machine Solutions excels in balloon catheter equipment, catheter testing, and stent crimping, offering a comprehensive range of solutions for balloon bonding, folding, forming, mandrel straightening, marker band swaging, tube necking, catheter performance testing, hydraulic burst and leak testing, non-destructive testing, radial force assessment, stent securement, heart valve crimping, marker band positioning, stent crimping, and stent loading.

Adhesive Bonding

UV curing of adhesives, that bond balloons, hubs, and other components to catheters.

Automation

Custom automation solutions to solve complex problems through designing and building completely modular solutions for the medical and life science industry.

Balloon Forming

Balloon blowing machines utilize electrically heated stretch blow molding process to enable the production of various very accurate and repeatable high-quality balloons with tight tolerances in an extensive variety of sizes and shapes.

Balloon Pleating and Folding

Minimize your folded balloon profile by optimizing pleat curvature. Our latest technology features automation for folding drug coated balloons

Biopharmaceutical Tube Sealing

Sebra products utilize RF technology to seal dry or fluid filled dielectric tubing or TPE tubing used in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, plasma and blood collection and processing.

Catheter Braiding

Fine Wire braiding for medical applications. Wire size as small as 0.0005″ with most metalic or polymer materials.

Catheter Hole Forming

Open, closed, and soft ends. Typical processes are flash free and create high tolerance components. Catheter Hole Forming CATHETER HOLE FORMING Drilling, punching or skiving equipment can mechanically create holes into catheter tubing

Catheter Lamination

Our system provides uniform heating for reflow of polymers into braided catheters.

Catheter Testing

We can measure trackability, torquability, pushability and other functions of your interventional device for competitive testing or device validation.

Catheter Tipping

Our systems can create a broad range of catheter tips with open, closed, and soft ends. Typical processes are flash free and create high toleranced components.

Heart Valve Crimping

We offer custom designed disposable or washable crimper designs to allow doctors to uniformly crimp percutaneous heart valves at the bedside.

Hot Boxes

Our hot air bonders provide high quality, low cost thermoplastic welds such as balloon bonds, butt joints or other applications.

Hydraulic Burst Testing

Worldwide standard for pressure testing catheters, balloons, fittings, valves, luers and many other disposable medical devices.

Laser Bonding and Welding

Connect plastic tubing utilizing an air-cooled CO2 laser with closed loop controller/stabilizer. Applications include proximal/distal balloon bonds, soft tip attachment and other catheter/tube bonding processes.

Mandrel Manufacturing

Vante provides device manufacturers with low volume and short lead time fabrication of custom geometry mandrels.

Mandrel Straightening

An automated straightening process allows customers to recycle bent or bowed coated stainless steel mandrels.

Marker Band Swaging

Produce superior appearance of platinum, gold and stainless marker bands with precise positioning using our automated process.

Plastic Tube Bonding

Our equipment can create butt welds, lap welds, braid to non-braid and many other leak-free joints with excellent tensile strength.

Plastic Tube Flaring

Create flairs or flanges on PVC, Polyethylene, Polyurethane, Nylon, Teflon and other thermoplastic tubing.

R&D Medical Braiding Services

SteegerUSA’s R&D lab features 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 96-Carrier Braiders for customers to create samples or run trials prior to purchase.

Radial Force Testing

ASTM international references our “Segmented Head Apparatus” as a method for radial strength testing of balloon-expandable and self-expanding stents.

Stent Crimping

Industry leading technology for crimping drug coated stents. We have the solution to meet your needs from R&D units to high volume automated positioning.

Stent Loading

MSI’s proprietary segmental compression technology allows our customers to load longer, more flexible Nitinol stents.

Stent Securement Testing

This easy to use and highly repeatable test method is based on the ASTM standard F2394-07 (2013).

Tube Cutting

Tube Cutting Machines automatically cut plastic tubes with small wall thickness to desired length. This equipment is suitable for high cutting volumes of discrete length tubing or from a spool.

Wire Stranders and Coilers

Creates coils or stand patterns for catheter applications. Sold as stand alone units or attachements to Steeger braiders.