Braided Tubing for Medical Applications

Braid reinforced tubing is an extrusion which fully encompasses a metal or fiber braided profile between two layers of polymer. The addition of braided fortification to plastic tubing can drastically expand burst pressure resistance, column strength, and torque transmission. Request a quote for our exceptional braided reinforced catheter tubing options now!

Braided Catheter Reinforced Tubing for Medical Applications

Duke’s wire and filament braided tube products and braid reinforced tubing are ideal for catheter shafts and other medical applications that require certain beneficial features, some of these include:

• Flexibility
• Torque response
• Pushability
• Axial stiffness
• Kink resistance
• Crush resistance
• Resistance to ovalization
• Electrical shielding
• Higher burst pressure resistance

Braided Reinforced Tube Options

With our in-house braided tube spooling capabilities, and a large inventory of stock wire and polymer filaments, we can provide lead times as short as one week for our custom braided tubing extrusions. We have numerous options available for our braided catheter tubing, including:

• Multiple ends
• Carriers of 16, 24, or 48
• Variable braid angles
• Dense pics per inch
• Woven braided axial elements
• Flat and round wire ends as small as 0.0005”
• Diameters as small as 0.2 mm, and as large as 17 mm

Additionally, we can also braid single lumens, multi-lumens, eccentric lumens, single- and multi-lumen tapered tubing—we can even add wire braiding to a single lumen within a multi-lumen configuration. Questions about our braided tubing options? Call us at 831-420-1104 today!

Custom Configurations for Reinforced Braided Tubing

Using state-of-the-art computer-controlled equipment, Duke Extrusion can control and customize the braid configuration of our wire braiding for optimum effectiveness regarding your medical application. Our advanced, proprietary braiding techniques allow compression loads to be increased, which helps our braided tube avoid buckling during excessive compression loading of retrievable, implantable medical devices such as catheters, stent grafts, and heart valves.

Braided Tube Patterns

Braid patterns are created by controlling the pitch of the filament, the filament gauge size, and filament shape (round, flat, etc.). Examples of patterns for braided tubes include “standard” 1 over 2 under 2, diamond patterns, and 1 over 1 under. Patterns can vary within the length of a single shaft, and increase or decrease the flexibility and stiffness of the braided tubing.

Material Options for Braided Catheter Tubing

There are many unique types of material that can be used to manufacture braid reinforced tubing, some of the more common filaments used include: 

• Flat or round metal wire (including stainless steel, nitinol, and others)
• Kevlar
• Fiberglass
• Carbon fiber
• PEN
• PET

Duke Extrusion are experts at selecting the right braiding material and pattern for customers’ needs, and we will work with you to create the ideal solution for your application needs.

Contact Duke Extrusion Today

Need your products quick? Duke Extrusion has you covered with our ultra-fast shipping times. Our stock tubing products, ship within 24 hours of purchase and braided standard tubing ships within 48 hours of order placement! At Duke Extrusion, we make purchasing medical-grade tubing easy with short lead times and quick, convenient, and hassle-free shipping.  It’s not just stock products that ship with industry best lead times, custom extrusion and rapid customized catheter products are also provided with the shortest lead times available and personalized service. That’s the Duke difference!

Get a quote on braided tubing extrusions for your braided catheters, braided implantable medical devices, or other braided products, or contact Duke Extrusion by calling 831-420-1104 to learn more.