Custom & Specialty Needles
Design and product development support, manufacturing services, and assembly for needle devices optimized to navigate long and tortuous anatomy.
As a vertically integrated supplier from handle to tip, Freudenberg Medical manufactures and customizes specialty needles with focus on engineered, minimally invasive, needle-based devices used in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for internal medicine.
Clinical Application Examples:
- Endoscopic biopsy needle
- Fine needle biopsy
- Structural heart / Transseptal needle
- Electrophysiology
- Soft tissue biopsy needle
- Pulmonary disease
- Specialist trocars
Needle Points
- Single bevel
- Multi-bevel
- Multi facet
Designs Available:
- Lancet
- Menghini
- Whitacre
- Closed point
- Backcut bevel
- Trocar
- Franceen
- Crown core cut
- Sharkcore
- Custom designs
Needle Varieties
- 27G to 7Ga – 0.0162” (0.413mm) to 0.180” (4.572mm)
- Up to 70” (1800mm) in length
- Regular, thin and ultra-thin wall thickness
- Nitinol and other alloys
Capabilities include:
- Shaft marking
- Echogenic enhancement
- Leak testing
- Tensile testing
- Puncture force testing
- EDM and laser cutting
- Hub and connector (overmolding, soldering or laser welding)
- Electropolishing
- Echogenic surface treatments
- Electro-chemical etching
- PTFE coatings
- Centerless grinding
- Swaging
- Heat treatments
- Other complementary processes