Company capabilities

Medical Product Outsourcing, Dec 15, 2007

SERVICES OFFERED

Through precise computerized equipment, extruded tubing of PUR, PA, PC, PE, PEEK, FEB PLA, PEBAX, PVC PP and most engineering resins are manufactured to meet your precise specifications. Materials can be compounded with barium, bismuth, or tungsten for radiopacity. Melt temperatures are maintained to within one degree. Screw RPM is held constant. On-line lasers monitor and maintain outside tubing diameters through automatic feedback control loops. Inside diameters and wall thickness are precisely controlled through on-line statistical process-control. PEI can handle the most complex tubing needs. We have state-of-the-art equipment that allows us to make the highest quality reinforced braided tubing in various compounds and configurations. Our high production lines manufacture acetal mandrel for use in the manufacture of tight-tolerance tubes. We manufacture in Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) for unequalled strength and temperature profiles. And, finally, we have bump or taper tubing for variable OD's and ID's. High quality, custom-extruded, medical grade tubing. Rapid order turnaround. A company wide commitment to total customer satisfaction. It's the perfect combination. It's what you want and need. And it's the reason Precision Extrusion, Inc. is among the leaders in extruded thermoplastics for the medical device industry.

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www.precisionextrusion.com

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Putnam Plastics Company

130 Louisa Viens Drive Dayville, CT 06241

Phone: (888) 36-GO PPC

Fax: (860) 774-6439

E-mail: info@putnamplastics.com

Web: www.putnamplastics.com

VITAL STATISTICS

Year Founded: 1984

Number of Employees: 130

Number of Facilities: 1

WHO WE ARE

Putnam Plastics Company has established itself as an innovative problem solver in responding to critical component challenges in the medical device industry. Our core capabilities include the manufacture of multilumen, multilayer, braided, and extremely thin-walled tubing and profiles formulated from one of the industry's widest selection of radiopaque and non-radiopaque polymers.

MAJOR MARKETS

* Extruded wire coating (down to .002" wire)

* Co-extruded Polyimide Tubing

* Tri-layer Sheath Tubing

* Braided and Multilumen TIE Tubing

* Lined Multilumen Tubing

* Coating of optical fibers

* High Temperature Materials (PEEK, PS)

* Spiral Wound Tubing

* Narrow Films

* Coextruded Profiles

* RF Tipping

* Hole Punching

* Printing

* Insert molding of connectors

SERVICES OFFERED

An extensive portfolio derived from two decades of experience in combining different materials and structures has enabled PPC to co-extrude tubing with the enhanced properties desired by the most progressive and innovative device manufacturers. Some of our recent developments include multiple layer micro-tubing with improved co-efficient of friction, polyimide liners with thermo-plastic coatings, and the ability to coat discrete length taper wires. PPC has also realized success in the development and manufacture of fluoropolymer wire coating with walls as low as (.0007"), coating of individual guidewires and catheter shafts, encapsulated wires and optical fibers in the wall of single and multi-lumens, multi-lumen tubing with linings (HDPE, FEP, PTFE) in specific lumens. Our TIE tubing continues to set the industry standard in continuous extrusion variable stiffness tubing.