Sil-Pro Announces Enhanced Medical Silicone Tube Extrusion Capabilities

Delano, Minnesota: Sil-Pro Silicone Professionals announce a major expansion of its medical silicone tube extrusion capabilities.* New systems provide in-line close tolerance cutting of silicone tubing directly from the extrusion machine as well as in-line spooling and cut-to-length from a spool.

These new systems provide medical OEM’s with new design options for precision accuracy, repeatable quality and fast delivery. Extruded silicone tube sizes range from ID/OD of .020 to 1.0 inch of single lumen, multi-lumen, solid rope and rod tubing. Precise dimensional control of the tubing throughout the part run is ensured by closed loop feedback from a Zumbach laser micrometer. Also available are processes for overmolding onto silicone tube and bonding silicone tubular parts to plastic and metal parts using medical grade adhesives.

Pad printing on silicone tubing of identification marks for positioning purposes and/or lot traceability is also available. Optional color characteristics of the tubing includes clear, translucent, opaque and colored versions.

"Our new capabilities will give customers a boost with accelerated time-to-market projects and provide many cost-effective benefits,” reports Brian Higgins, Sil-Pro Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We continue to expand our facilities with new technology to provide medical device companies with the quality and turnaround time they require."

Sil-Pro is a 100-employee company with ISO 9001:2000 certification providing CAD product development, mold design, and build and class 10,000 clean room molding and extrusion. These capabilities are augmented by fully automated molding, assembly, and packaging cells.

* Medical grade and implant grade silicones from NuSil, Dow Corning, Momentive and Wacker Silicones