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 MSI, SteegerUSA, BW-TEC AG, Vante, PlasticWeld Systems, Crescent Design, Beahm Design and SEBRA offer a single source for catheter manufacturing and testing equipment.  Machine Solutions specializes in equipment for PTCA/PTA balloon catheters and stents with processes such as balloon folding, balloon forming, stent crimping, catheter lamination, laser bonding, mandrel straightening, marker band swaging, heart valve crimping and thermal bonding equipment. MSI also provides testing services and testing equipment including: hydraulic burst testing, radial force testing, stent securement, catheter trackability and torquability. Our Steeger USA division specializes in braiding equipment, including medical braiders, textile braiders, microelectronic braiders, coilers and stranders. PlasticWeld Systems and Vante divisions specialize in medical plastic processing including catheter tipping, flaring, flanging, hole forming, skiving, polished eye forming, bonding and welding. Vante also offers a line of biopharmaceutical sealers and sterile connectors and disconnectors. Beahm Designs’ thermal processing equipment is known throughout the medical device community as a robust solution for a wide range of plastic manufacturing processes. These foundational tools enable customers to quickly develop and manufacture innovative, lifesaving products.

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Machine Solutions Product Lines

Balloon Pleating and Folding

Balloon Pleating and Folding

Minimize your folded balloon profile by optimizing pleat curvature. Our latest technology features automation for folding drug coated balloons.1

Stent Crimping

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.

Marker Band Swaging

Marker Band Swaging

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

Catheter Lamination

Catheter Lamination

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

Catheter Braiding

Catheter Braiding

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

Wire Stranders and Coilers

Wire Stranders and Coilers

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

Catheter Tipping

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.

Catheter Hole Forming

Catheter Hole Forming

Drilling, punching or skiving equipment can mechanically create holes into catheter tubing

Plastic Tube Bonding

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

Plastic Tube Flaring

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

Hot Boxes

Hot Boxes

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

Mandrel Straightening

Mandrel Straightening

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

Mandrel Manufacturing

Mandrel Manufacturing

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

R&D Medical Braiding Services

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.

Stent Loading

Stent Loading

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

Heart Valve Crimping

Heart Valve Crimping

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

Hydraulic Burst and Leak Testing

Hydraulic Burst and Leak Testing

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

Radial Force Testing

Radial Force Testing

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

Catheter Testing

Catheter Testing

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

Stent Securement Testing

Stent Securement Testing

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

Biopharmaceutical Tube Sealing

Biopharmaceutical Tube Sealing

VanteBiopharm and 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.

Laser Bonding / Welding

Laser Bonding / Welding

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

Balloon Forming

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.

Tube Cutting

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.

Our Brands

The MSI Team
The Steeger USA Team
The Vante Team
The PlasticWeld Systems Team
The Sebra Team
Crescent Design
Beahm Designs
BW Tec