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Stainless Steel Tubing for Medical Devices

Servicing the medical market has been a key part of Vita’s business -- in our early years, we supplied needles for the Allied forces in World War II! It’s still at the core of what we do best.

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Medical Grade Stainless Steel Tubing

Medical grade metal tubing can broadly be described as a series of tubing alloys fabricated in a manner that makes them functional and reliable for use in medical device products. While plastic, glass and composite solutions have their place as material options for some applications; medical grade stainless steel tubing is considered to be the dependable material of choice for a variety of products. Starting with its humble beginnings in fluid transfer tools in early research laboratories to medical needles for testing, treatments and vaccination drives, medical grade stainless steel tubing has been used in countless life saving and life supporting products. This article specifically discusses medical grade stainless steel tubing and high level options to consider when specifying its use.

Medical Tubing Products

Applications

A considerable portion of our production for the medical market consists of stainless steel tubular fabricated products and needle assemblies. We supply cannula/needle components for countless medical applications, including but not limited to:

  • Fabricated orthopedic instrument components for cutting and drilling
  • Custom manufactured tubular and needle products for fluid or gas transfer
  • Fabricated tubular components for ophthalmologic, neurology or cardiac applications
  • Sharp cutter tubes, including lancet points or tapered razor edge parts for cutting and coring/biopsy applications
  • Components for instruments used in suturing devices
  • Solid wire trocars
  • Radiopaque marker bands
  • Liposuction and embalming applications
  • Many other unique applications not listed here

Because we’ve manufactured a wide range of medical device products since 1932, chances are that we’ve built something similar to a design you’re considering in your application.

Fabrication Options

All of the fabrication options described here can be utilized on medical grade tubing, subject to certain size limitations. These include but are not limited to:

  • Cutting and deburring to length.
  • Cold forming including bending, flaring, corseting and dimpling.
  • Forming end closures or grinding sharp needle tips/ points.
  • Forming holes or slots.
  • Assembling tubes to other components via welding, soldering, or mechanical means.

Quality

Vita Needle is ISO 9001 and 13485 certified and FDA registered. Our quality group utilizes a range of instruments and sampling/control methods to ensure product quality, ranging from 1” Mitutoyo micrometers to various NIST calibrated custom gauges to Keyence IM vision systems capable of accurate readings to millionths of an inch. We also work closely with customers to ensure special quality requirements, such as aesthetics or special details, unique to each customer.

Why Vita Needle?

Vita Needle has the materials on hand, manufacturing capabilities and know how to produce high quality products for medical applications. Our decades of experience---starting in 1932---gives us a supreme advantage over peers who have comparatively less experience to draw from when developing stable yet creative processes to build complex parts. Quality isn’t an option in the medical device business---it’s a prerequisite.

How Can Vita Needle Help?

We welcome the opportunity to help on your next project, whether prototype or production. Often the best way we can help is if you send us details---such as an engineering drawing, or specifications of some kind---as well as specifics on your intended application. Then we can get to work figuring out the best way to manufacture your product. Your desired quantities are also helpful so we can optimize processes based on volumes and provide a cost effective quotation. If you’re just starting out and would like some direction on the options we can provide, please call us and ask to speak to one of our technical customer service representatives. Our experienced team will be glad to assist.

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