Dilators & Sheaths

Our off-the-shelf components can jump start product development projects. Standard dilators and sheaths are available in our Component Webstore, ready to ship the next day.

With hundreds of tools and countless configurations readily available, we can rapidly produce prototypes to support your development projects.

Our dilator and introducer sheath technologies include custom designs in various materials, sizes, colors, and post-extrusion operations.

Materials

Dilators

• LDPE
• HDPE
• Pebax^®
• Radiopaque fillers (barium sulfate)

Sheaths

• HDPE
• Pebax
• FEP

Sizes

• 8 Fr–28 Fr

• Tipping (radius, atraumatic)
• Custom & extra-length tapers
• Multidurometer
• Large-diameter dilators for structural heart applications
• Bonding & butt bonding
• OD grinding & tip profile grinding
• Overmolded hubs
• Laser marking & pad printing

• Thermoplastic resins with radiopaque additives
• Tipping, flaring & cuffing
• Variable-stiffness shafts
• Electrode embedding
• Insulation sheath for robotic surgery applications
• Encapsulated radiopaque or nonmetallic marker bands
• Braid- or coil-reinforced shafts
• Laser marking & pad printing
• Complex subassemblies
• Steerable and deflectable sheaths

See the complete list of our Secondary Operations