As an indispensable tool in modern interventional therapy, Balloon Tubing have a wide range of applications and play a vital role in the treatment of a variety of diseases. They are flexible tubular devices with an inflatable or expandable balloon attached to their tip. This ingenious design allows them to be precisely inserted into blood vessels or other lumens in the body for purposes such as dilation, unblocking, or positioning. Core Uses and Applications of Balloon Tubing Balloon Tubing are primarily used in interventional treatments for cardiovascular and peripheral vascular diseases, but are also widely used in the urinary and digestive systems. Angioplasty: This is the core use of Balloon Tubing. Coronary Intervention (PCI): Used to treat coronary heart disease, a catheter is inserted into a narrowed coronary artery. The balloon is inflated to compress plaque, widen the vessel, and restore blood flow. Peripheral Vascular Intervention: Used to treat narrowed or blocked peripheral blood vessels, such as those in the limbs and renal arteries. Stent Delivery and Positioning: During vascular stent implantation, a balloon catheter is typically used to deliver the compressed stent to the lesion site. The balloon then expands and secures the stent to the vessel wall. Hemostasis: Certain specially designed Balloon Tubing can be used to temporarily occlude or compress blood vessels during surgery or trauma to stop bleeding. Other non-vascular applications: For example, in urology, they are used to dilate the ureters; in gastroenterology, they are used to dilate strictures such as the esophagus and bile duct. The Importance of High-Quality Balloon Tubing and Advanced Manufacturing Capabilities The performance of a balloon catheter directly depends on the quality of its core component—the balloon tubing. As we know from our extensive experience in this field, balloon tubing is primarily used to manufacture the balloon body of a balloon dilatation catheter (commonly known as a balloon) and is the core and critical component of the balloon catheter. To ensure the precision and safety of the final balloon catheter during in vivo operation, the manufacturing process of the balloon tubing is extremely demanding. LINSTANT boasts a nearly 20,000-square-meter cleanroom facility that complies with GMP requirements, ensuring efficient order fulfillment. Our Manufacturing Infrastructure Includes 15 imported extrusion lines with various screw specifications, offering single-layer, double-layer, and triple-layer co-extrusion. 8 PEEK extrusion lines. 2 injection molding lines. Nearly 100 braiding, stretching, and coating equipment, as well as 40 welding and molding machines. Leveraging our extensive extrusion experience and robust equipment capabilities, we can consistently provide you with balloon tubes with tight tolerances and excellent mechanical properties to meet your needs. Our product offerings cover a wide range of sizes and cover a wide range of services: Tubing: Extruded single- and multi-layer tubing, single- and multi-lumen tubing, and single-, double-, and triple-layer balloon tubes. Reinforced sheaths: Coiled and braided reinforced sheaths. Specialty tubing: Special engineered PEEK/PI tubing. Solutions: A variety of surface treatment solutions are also available. High-Quality Balloon Tubes Mean Precise expansion capability: The balloon achieves the exact diameter at the desired pressure. Excellent conformability: Ensures smooth passage through stenotic lesions. Reliable burst pressure: Provides sufficient expansion force for treatment while ensuring surgical safety. Balloon Tubing are a manifestation of medical progress. They rely on high-quality critical components like ours, along with advanced manufacturing processes, to provide more minimally invasive and effective treatment options for patients worldwide.

Guide catheters, as key tools in modern interventional procedures, have expanded their applications far beyond traditional vascular interventions, encompassing a wide range of medical fields, including oncology, neurology, respiratory medicine, and urology. With the continuous advancement of medical technology, the functionality of guide catheters is also constantly improving, helping physicians achieve more precise diagnosis and treatment. Understanding the correct use of guide catheters is crucial for ensuring surgical success and patient safety. Innovative Design and Advantages of Guide Catheters Multi-level Design with Different Hardnesses: This design provides guide catheters with increased flexibility, enabling them to more flexibly navigate complex anatomies. Soft Tip: This significantly minimizes damage to the vessel wall and surrounding tissue, enhancing surgical safety. Braided Construction: This provides enhanced torque control, stability, and excellent maneuverability, enabling physicians to more precisely deliver the guide catheter to the target location. Ultra-thin Wall and Large Lumen: This combination enables guide catheters to pass through more complex and larger instruments while maintaining sufficient support. Low-friction PTFE inner layer: Ensures smooth and rapid passage of guidewires or high-viscosity fluids through the guide catheter, improving surgical efficiency. Shape retention: Excellent shape retention provides reliable support during prolonged surgical procedures. Key Steps for Proper Guide Catheter Use Preparation and Inspection: Before use, carefully inspect the guide catheter packaging for integrity and expiration date, and ensure the model matches the surgical requirements. Also, prepare the guidewire, contrast agent, and other necessary interventional devices. Access Establishment: Puncture the target vessel (such as the femoral or radial artery) and insert the sheath to establish access for the interventional procedure. Guidewire Guidance: A guidewire is advanced into the vascular system, serving as a path for the guide catheter. Guide Catheter Advancement and Positioning: The guide catheter is carefully and steadily advanced along the guidewire to the vicinity of the target lesion or organ. With its excellent torque and maneuverability, physicians can precisely adjust the guide catheter tip, ensuring it remains firmly and stably in the intended position, providing the necessary support. Diagnosis or Treatment: Once the guide catheter is in place, physicians can deliver complex devices such as microcatheters, balloons, stents, or high-viscosity fluids (such as embolic agents) through its large lumen, allowing for precise diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Withdrawal: After the procedure is complete, the guide catheter and sheath are withdrawn smoothly and slowly, ensuring that all interventional devices have been safely withdrawn. Hemostasis is also performed at the puncture site. Expert Manufacturing and Product Lines: Providing Comprehensive Solutions for Medical Intervention As a professional supplier of guide catheters and related medical tubing, our product line is dedicated to meeting the stringent precision and reliability requirements of interventional procedures. Our product range covers a wide range of tubing sizes and complex structures, aiming to provide customers with comprehensive solutions: Precision Extruded Tubing: This includes extruded single- and multi-layer tubing and single- and multi-lumen tubing to meet diverse fluid and device delivery needs. Balloon Tubing: We offer single-, double-, and triple-layer balloon tubing, which is a core component in manufacturing high-performance balloon dilatation catheters. Reinforced Sheaths: We manufacture coiled/braided reinforced sheaths to provide guide catheters with the required torque resistance and support, ensuring operational stability. Specialty Engineered Materials: We specialize in using PEEK/PI tubing, a specialty engineered material, to meet the demands of interventional devices requiring high temperatures, high strength, and high biocompatibility. Surface Treatment: We offer a variety of surface treatment solutions to optimize the low-friction properties of the tubing, further enhancing the smooth delivery of guidewires and devices. Expanding Applications of Guide Catheters in Various Medical Fields Neurointerventional: Used for interventional treatment of intracranial aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations, requiring extreme flexibility and torque control. Oncology: Used for the precise delivery of embolic agents or chemotherapy drugs to tumor-feeding vessels. Peripheral Vascular Intervention: Used to treat various peripheral arterial diseases. Guide catheters are essential tools for modern interventional procedures. Selecting high-quality products with ultra-thin walls, low-friction inner layers, and excellent shape retention, combined with standardized operating procedures, maximizes their effectiveness and improves the success rate and safety of interventional procedures.

PEBAX heat shrink tubing is a high-performance, medical-grade heat shrink tubing widely used in the medical device industry. It is made from PEBAX material, renowned for its unique combination of properties, making it ideal for the manufacture of interventional catheters and a variety of medical devices. Manufacturing capabilities are crucial in the production of PEBAX heat shrink tubing and related medical devices. For example, companies like LINSTANT ensure an efficient and high-quality product supply through their state-of-the-art production facilities. LINSTANT boasts nearly 20,000 square meters of GMP-compliant cleanroom space, providing a clean environment for the production of high-standard medical-grade heat shrink tubing. Unique Advantages and Applications of PEBAX Materials PEBAX is a thermoplastic elastomer that combines the flexibility of polyether with the strength and chemical resistance of polyamide. These properties give PEBAX heat shrink tubing excellent mechanical properties, precise dimensional stability, and excellent biocompatibility. PEBAX heat shrink tubing is widely used in the manufacture of medical devices, typically as an outer tubing coating, significantly enhancing the performance of catheters. It serves as a delivery and access channel in applications such as neurovascular, cardiac, and peripheral vascular surgery. In these critical applications, catheters require excellent maneuverability and kink resistance. Specifically, PEBAX heat shrink tubing is also commonly used for the following functions: Friction protection: Providing a smooth, low-friction surface for medical devices. Insulation: Used for insulation of laparoscopic electrosurgical equipment. Mechanical protection and insulation: Protecting highly flexible connectors. Process-aided materials: Providing manufacturing convenience in interventional applications. Robust Equipment Support for Diverse Applications To meet the demands of diverse product specifications and complexities, robust equipment support is crucial. LINSTANT's production line configuration reflects this expertise, including: 15 imported extrusion lines with various screw specifications and single-, double-, and triple-layer co-extrusion capabilities ensure the complex structures and precise dimensions of catheters. Eight PEEK extrusion lines and two injection molding lines expand the material's application range. Nearly 100 braiding, stretching, and coating machines, as well as 40 welding and molding machines, are used for further processing and forming of catheters, ensuring efficient order fulfillment. Optimized Design: Thinner Walls, Better Performance A core advantage of PEBAX heat shrink tubing is its ability to achieve extremely thin wall thicknesses while maintaining the necessary strength and lubricity. For example, in disposable biopsy forceps, by using a polyurethane elastomer PEBAX outer layer as the clamp channel tube, the wall thickness can be minimized while maintaining strength and lubricity. This design optimization offers two benefits: Increased Inner Diameter: While maintaining the same outer dimensions, the inner diameter of the clamp channel tube can be increased, facilitating instrument passage. Reduced Tip Dimensions: Alternatively, while maintaining the same inner diameter, the outer dimensions of the tip can be reduced, improving endoscope insertion and reducing patient discomfort and surgical difficulty. PEBAX heat shrink tubing, thanks to its high-performance PEBAX material, precisely controlled wall thickness, and diverse applications in interventional catheters and medical devices, has become a vital material in modern medical technology. Dedicated production capabilities, such as the advanced equipment and GMP cleanroom showcased by LINSTANT, are essential for ensuring the success of these high-quality products.

These tiny, flexible Micro Catheter are the "lifeways" of modern medical devices. They can navigate the complex vascular network of the human body, greatly expanding doctors' capabilities for minimally invasive surgery. Simply put, Micro Catheter are key "tool carriers" for precise diagnosis and treatment. The Core Use of Micro Catheter: The Art of Precision Delivery Micro Catheter are flexible catheters with extremely small inner diameters, key to enabling superselective cannulation and targeted therapy. Their primary functions are: Precise Positioning and Diagnosis: Micro Catheter can reach the smallest and most tortuous distal vessels in areas such as the brain, heart, and liver, delivering contrast agents and enabling precise angiographic diagnosis. Targeted Drug or Substance Delivery: This is the most important therapeutic application of Micro Catheter. They can accurately deliver therapeutic agents such as embolic agents, chemotherapy drugs, or coils for cerebral aneurysms to the lesion, achieving targeted treatment with minimal trauma. Quality Assurance: LINSTANT's Manufacturing Strength To ensure smooth and precise operation of Micro Catheter within blood vessels, the quality of the catheter itself is crucial. This requires products with exceptional flexibility, maneuverability, and biocompatibility. Since its founding in 2014, LINSTANT has specialized in extrusion, coating, and post-processing technologies for medical polymer catheters, dedicated to providing medical device manufacturers with high-precision, high-safety components. LINSTANT's manufacturing expertise enables the creation of high-performance Micro Catheter that meet the stringent clinical demands of minimally invasive surgery: High-end Materials and Processing: LINSTANT boasts 15 imported single-, double-, and triple-layer co-extrusion lines, as well as eight PEEK extrusion lines specifically designed for high-temperature-resistant, high-strength catheters, ensuring superior material performance and dimensional accuracy. Efficient Integrated Manufacturing: LINSTANT's nearly 20,000 m² GMP-compliant cleanroom is equipped with nearly 100 braiding, stretching, and coating machines and 40 welding and forming machines, ensuring stable production capacity for complex multi-layer, multi-lumen microcatheter structures. Thanks to suppliers like LINSTANT who focus on core technologies, the application range of Micro Catheter is expanding, especially in complex vascular procedures such as chronic total occlusion (CTO) and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE).

In the precision manufacturing of medical devices, material performance requirements are extremely stringent. PI Reinforced Tubing has become a key component in demanding applications such as vascular intervention and electrophysiology. Overview of PI Material PI, also known as polyimide, is a recognized high-performance organic polymer. Its outstanding features include: High strength: Even at microscale, PI maintains excellent mechanical strength. Excellent temperature resistance and thermal stability: This allows it to operate stably in a variety of complex medical environments, including high- and low-temperature sterilization processes. Although simple PI tubing offers excellent performance, braided reinforcement has been introduced to meet the higher demands of pushability, torsion resistance, and pressure resistance within the body for medical catheters. Braided Reinforcement Technology Braided reinforcement is a key production technology that incorporates a precisely woven reinforcement layer (usually metal wire or fiber) within the tubing wall to significantly: Improve compressive resistance: This prevents the tubing from deforming or collapsing when bent or subjected to external pressure. Improve pushability: This ensures that the catheter can effectively transmit force from the outside to the tip, enabling precise control by the physician. LINSTANT: A Professional Manufacturer of High-Performance Polyimide Reinforced Tubing Manufacturing PI Reinforced Tubing that meets the highest medical standards requires sophisticated polymer catheter extrusion, coating, and post-processing technologies. Since its establishment in 2014, LINSTANT has dedicated itself to this endeavor. We are committed to providing medical device manufacturers with precise, safe, and diverse process development capabilities and stable output. We understand the importance of high precision in life sciences and have amassed extensive experience in tubing extrusion using specialized engineering materials such as polyimide (PI) and PEEK. Product Scope and Capabilities Our business scope covers several key areas of medical catheter manufacturing, including extruded single- and multi-layer tubing, single- and multi-lumen tubing, and single-, double-, and triple-layer balloon tubing, as well as a variety of surface treatment solutions. We offer a wide range of sizes to meet the complex customization needs of medical device customers for PI Reinforced Tubing and related catheter components. Key Advantages of Polyimide Reinforced Tubing Our polyimide reinforced tubing perfectly combines the inherent advantages of polyimide (PI) with the mechanical properties of braid reinforcement, resulting in a composite tubing with superior overall performance. Key features include: Improved Torque Control: The tip of the catheter responds more precisely and instantly to external rotation, crucial for precision in minimally invasive procedures. Excellent Flexibility: Easily navigates the complex, tortuous vascular pathways of the human body. High Strength: Ensures resistance to damage during operation. Thanks to these advantages, PI Reinforced Tubing are widely used in numerous medical devices and are a key enabler for minimally invasive interventional procedures. Key applications and related medical devices include: Application Areas Typical Medical Devices (Related Terms) Vascular Intravascular ultrasound catheters, vascular stent delivery systems Structural Heart Disease Delivery sheaths, interventional catheters Electrophysiology Electrophysiology catheter sheaths Urology Lithotomy basket sheaths, urinary catheters

PEEK tubing (polyetheretherketone) is a tubing made from the high-performance thermoplastic polymer PEEK. Its exceptional performance excels in numerous demanding applications. It's more than just tubing; it's a key component in solving complex engineering challenges. The unique properties of PEEK give tubing unparalleled advantages, enabling it to remain stable in high-temperature, high-pressure, and high-strength environments. Exceptional Properties of PEEK Tubing The most notable feature of PEEK tubing is its exceptional high-temperature resistance. It can operate reliably in environments up to 250°C while maintaining excellent mechanical properties, including high strength, high fracture toughness, and stable dimensional stability. Even under extreme thermal conditions, PEEK tubing performs reliably without deformation or performance degradation. In addition to high-temperature resistance, PEEK tubing exhibits exceptional chemical stability, abrasion resistance, and flame retardancy. Its excellent biocompatibility makes it a leading choice in medical devices, enabling them to be safely implanted in the human body or used in contact with living organisms. Wide Applications of PEEK Tubing Due to its exceptional properties, PEEK tubing has a wide range of applications. In the medical field, it is a core component in high-precision medical devices, such as: Cardiovascular interventional catheters: Due to high strength and biocompatibility. Endoscopes and urological catheters: Flexibility and durability ensure smooth procedures. Electrosurgical forceps: Excellent insulating properties ensure safety. PEEK tubing is also used in other demanding industries. In the e-cigarette industry, it serves as thermal insulation tubing. In military and aerospace applications, its lightweight, high strength, and resistance to extreme environments make it essential for critical systems in aircraft and spacecraft. Dimensional Tolerances of PEEK Tubing PEEK tubing is typically produced using high-precision extrusion technology, allowing very tight dimensional tolerances. Experienced manufacturers ensure that outer diameter, inner diameter, and wall thickness remain within strict limits. This precision is crucial for medical catheters and aerospace components, requiring precise fit and consistent performance. Advantages Over Other High-Performance Tubing Materials Compared to common materials like PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) and PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), PEEK tubing offers significant advantages in mechanical strength, rigidity, and high-temperature resistance. In applications requiring high load-bearing capacity and dimensional stability, especially under extreme conditions, PEEK tubing provides more reliable and long-lasting performance. About Ningbo LINSTANT Polymer Materials Co., Ltd. Ningbo LINSTANT Polymer Materials Co., Ltd., established in 2014, has grown into a national-level high-tech enterprise with over 500 professional staff members. The company aims to transcend traditional component supply, integrating deeply into its customers' products. Through precise design matching and stringent quality control, LINSTANT provides medical device companies with safer, more precise, and technologically advanced customised catheter system solutions.