Longitudinally Reinforced Tubing / Composite Tubing

Filament reinforced tubing offers higher performance for applications which require advanced tubing properties. Duke Extrusion can add longitudinal reinforcement to your tubing to reduce axial elongation (stretching) and/or to provide preferential bending characteristics for a wide range of applications, including:

• Deflection catheters
• Implant delivery catheters
• Electrical leads
• Sensors
• Stretch limiting features

Longitudinal reinforcement can also be combined with tip shaping and can be used to create a variety of fixed curves in your tubing extrusion.

Materials for Composite Tubing

We can add a number of longitudinal reinforcement filaments to any custom extrusion to form composite tubing. We use an array of materials, including:

• Metallic wire – round or flat
• PEEK
• Kevlar™
• PEN
• Nylon
• PET
• Liquid crystal polymer (LCP)
• Carbon fiber
• Polymeric filaments

Custom Options for Filament Reinforced Tubing

Longitudinal reinforcement can be combined with a number of other tubing options, including coil and wire reinforced tubing, multi-lumen tubing, braiding, and PTFE lined lumens. When combined with braided extrusions, longitudinal reinforcements are known as zero angle elements and can be added above, below, or woven through the braid.

Longitudinally Reinforced Tubing

While plastic is molten and being formed into a tube, we add a filament or wire. Some examples of uses for filaments in tubing are electrical conductors to carry signals or tethers to prevent the tube from stretching. Duke Extrusion’s composite tubing can help improve the longevity and performance of medical devices.

We are your Composite Tubing Experts

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 for composite tubing for your catheters or other implantable medical devices and delivery systems, or contact Duke Extrusion to learn more on longitudinally reinforced tubing.