Medical

Medical

Medical

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Fine Tubes and Superior Tube are renowned for their high-quality tubing solutions for critical medical applications. Their products are used in various medical instruments and implants, offering high precision and reliability.

Historical Developments
  • 1936: Hypodermic needle tubing for catheters and cystoscopies.
  • 1970: 316 stainless steel tubing for artificial kidney machines.
  • 1980: Precision needle tubing for cancer treatment devices.
  • 1997: L605 alloy tubing for coronary stents.
  • 2003: Titanium alloy tubing for artificial heart valves.
  • 2004: Ti 6Al-4V tubing for bone nail implants.
  • 2009: Award for transaortic valve replacements.


Product Specifications
Fine Tubes and Superior Tube manufacture tubing in various alloys, including stainless steel, titanium, and specialty alloys. They offer seamless, welded, and Weldrawn® finishes with precise tolerances and surface finishes.

Manufacturing Capabilities
The companies utilize advanced manufacturing techniques such as pilger mills, multi-roll rolling mills, and controlled atmosphere heat treatment. They ensure high-quality standards through rigorous testing and quality control processes.

Applications
The tubing solutions are used in a wide range of medical applications, including:
  • Angioplasty and embolism
  • Biopsy needles
  • Catheters and cannulas
  • Cardiac rhythm management
  • Dental implants
  • Heart valves and stents
  • Spinal cages and screws
  • Surgical instruments and implants


Quality Assurance
Fine Tubes and Superior Tube maintain high standards of quality control, ensuring products meet stringent specifications. They offer competitive alternatives to traditional technologies with enhanced consistency and performance.

Global Presence
With production facilities in the UK and the US, and sales offices worldwide, Fine Tubes and Superior Tube have a significant global reach, providing high precision tubing to over 35 countries.

Conclusion
Fine Tubes and Superior Tube, as part of AMETEK, Inc., continue to lead in the development of innovative tubing solutions for the medical industry, ensuring high performance and reliability in critical applications.
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Medical High Specification Tubing Solutions for Critical Medical Applications

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High precision tubes for demanding environments Medical Tubing Excellence With over 70 years of engineering expertise in supplying high precision tubes, Fine Tubes and Superior Tube work closely with customers worldwide, developing high specification tubing solutions to help them solve their technical challenges. We manufacture high performance tubes for supercritical medical applications in an ever expanding range of stainless steel, titanium and other specialty alloys. Tubing Innovations Tubing Innovations Fine Tubes and Superior Tube benefit from a world-class reputation for innovative and...

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TUBiNG SOLUTiONS TUBING SOLUTIONS MEDiCAL For over seven decades, design engineers have been relying on Fine Tubes and Superior Tube, two of the medical industry's most technologically advanced manufacturers of highly engineered, small-diameter, precision alloy tubing. The demand for high performance stainless steel and titanium alloys that can offer excellent strength-to-weight ratios is constantly increasing. This, in combination with high levels of microbiological corrosion resistance and fatigue life properties, is the challenge that has been exceeded by our biocompatible medical materials....

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MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES manufacturing capabilities ALLOYS Fine Tubes and Superior Tube produce a wide range of custom-sized tubing in an ever expanding range of alloys - available in three different forms, i.e. seamless, welded or welded & redrawn (Weldrawn®) finish. We also manufacture tubing in many other grades. Please contact us for more details. Size range for medical products is based upon manufacture of cold drawn tubing from 0.30 mm (0.012 in) to 50.8 mm (2 in) OD. Tolerances: OD and ID up to 0.0127 mm (0.0005 in) are achievable. production FACILITIES • Pilger mills • Multi-roll rolling...

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SUPERCRiTiCAL TUBING • GRADE CHART < cj Q LU For further details on our grades visit: www.finetubes.co.uk/products/tube-grades www.superiortube.com/products/our-grad

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TUBING QUALITY tubing quality integrity assurance The quality control process at Fine Tubes and Superior Tubes is critical in respect of consistently achieving the highest level of specification requirements. Reduction control through pilgering and drawing is specific to each product dimension and specification requirements. This is the driver for tolerance control, OD and ID surface finish control, inclusion levels and final grain size. • OD surface roughness typically better than 0.75p m (30p in) Ra. • ID surface roughness typically better than 1.5p m (59p in) Ra. Rigorous process control ensures...

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global presence Global Presence Through the partnership between U.K.-based Fine Tubes and U.S.-based Superior Tube, both companies can offer increased capabilities, leading to significantly reduced lead times, an extended product portfolio, increased global reach and outstanding customer service. In addition to tube mills in the United Kingdom and the United States, we have sales offices in Germany, France, India and the United States, as well as an extensive network of partners in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Fine Tubes and Superior Tube are collectively a unit of AMETEK, Inc., a leading...

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HIGH PRECiSiON TUBES FOR DEMANDING ENViRONMENTS MEDICAL Superior Tube finetubes FINE TUBES Plymbridge Road Plymouth PL6 7LG UNITED KINGDoM SUPERIOR TUBE 3900 Germantown Pike collegeville, Pa 19426-3112 united states sales offices Sales Office Europe West 23, Rue Antigna F-45000 Orleans FRANCE E: [email protected] Sales Office Europe central AMETEKGmbH Rudolf-Diesel-Strasse 16 D-40670 Meerbusch GERMANY E: [email protected] Sales Office india AMETEK Instruments India Pvt Ltd 601, Raaj Chambers Old Nagardas Road Andheri (East) Mumbai - 400 069 INDIA E: [email protected]...

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