Precision Metal Tubing
Unmatched Precision in Medical-Grade Metal Tubing
As an industry leader, we produce more than 30 million feet of medical-grade metal tubing each year.
Expertise You Can Count On
Dating back to our founding as Uniform Tubes in 1940, we have over 80 years of precision tube manufacturing. In 1999, we extended our tube-drawing skills to include nitinol. We now produce more than 150,000 feet of nitinol tubes annually.
Serving Mission Critical Markets
No matter how challenging the requirements, our team of dedicated experts is here to provide world-class tube drawing capabilities.
We serve the following markets:
- ISO 13485 Certified
- Surgical Technologies
- Energy-based
- Electromechanical
- Biopsy/Drug Delivery
- Orthopedics
- Arthoscopy
- Spine/IVS
- Vascular Access
- Stents, cardiovascular and peripheral
World-Class Tube-Making Skills
- Laser welded and drawn tubing with the structural integrity of traditional seamless tubing.
- Tubes with shaped cross sections and multiple layers
- High precision with exceptional dimensional control
- Efficient coil-drawing and flexible bench-drawing capabilities
- In-house tube-draw tooling manufacture
Deep metallurgical Skills:
- 42 active alloys in production
- 2 metallurgists on staff
- Onsite Met Labs
- SEM microscope with EDS analysis
Precision-Fabricated Tubing Center of Excellence
Need tubing fast? Our integrated Tube Drawing and Tube Fabrication CoE offers quick-turn fabricated tubes to rapidly refine your design.
- In-house design and build of precision die forming and fabrication tooling
- Tubes are readily available from in-house tube drawing facility
- 4 axis laser cutting with bar fed, robotic fed, and integrated laser processing options
- Finishing including laser marking, pad printing, grit blasting, passivation
- Machining including electrochemical (ECM) and electrical discharge machining (EDM)
- Forming including expansion, reduction, CNC bending
- Fully-equipped, climate controlled metrology lab
Tubing Specifications
| Size Range | Tubing Type |
|---|---|
| 0.07 mm to 28 mm OD | Thin-wall and thick-wall tubing |
| Materials | |
|---|---|
| Stainless Steels | 304, 304L, 316, 316L , 321, 347, 316Ti, 316LVM (medical grade), 17-7PH |
| Nickel-based alloys | Ni 200; Ni 201; Monel 400®; cupronickel; Inconel®; alloys 600, 625, 718, and X750; Haynes®; 282®; |
| Cobalt-based alloys | L-605 (alloy 25), MP35N®, Elgiloy® |
| Titanium alloys | Nitinol, Ti CP Grade 2, Ti 3Al 2.5V (Grade 9) |
| Refractories | Niobium, Tantalum |
