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Medical
Parflex has extended the selection of medical
tubing capabilities through the TexMed
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side of the
TexLoc
®
business unit in Fort Worth, TX. TexMed
specializes in the extrusion of precision tolerances
for custom tubing and custom profiles of TexFluor
®
PTFE, ePTFE, FEP, PFA, and ETFE. Coupled with
the traditional line of thermoplastic tubing in Vinyl,
Polypropylene and Nylon Pure Air tubing, Parflex
has a tube for almost every medical application.
With an emphasis on partnering, Parflex Engineers
work closely with our customer's engineers to
create tubing products with increased performance.
The newest development is a medical grade FEP
Heat Shrink for catheter forming. Unlike typical FEP
heat shrink, which often wrinkles, twist or grows
up to 20% in length when shrinking, the new heat
shrink has a uniform recovery and a maximum
constrained elongation up to + 5%. And with a
faster recovery time, medical grade FEP Heat Shrink
is very responsive in reflow applications for catheter
manufacturing.
Parker/TexMed Advantages include:
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Application and Material Engineering Support
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Precision tolerance tubing
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Ability to handle low volume start up projects
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Class 10,000 clean room
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Complete traceability on each lot of product
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Wide range of US Class VI compliant materials
In the value added service department,
specialty operations such as laser marking,
tube cutting, scoring, slitting, marking, flanging,
flaring, tipping and other services are available.
Applications
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Catheter construction
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Sheathing
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Forming devices
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Introducers
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Dental equipment
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Endoscopic instruments
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Tracheotomy tubes
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Blood analyzer
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Lab instruments
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General robotics
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Air and gas transport
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Packaging
Life Science
Parker Hannifin Corporation
| Parflex
®
Division | Ravenna, Ohio
|
parker.com/pfd
For detailed ordering information, please consult price list or contact Parflex
®
Division.
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