Engineering Polymers
A range of engineering polymers, each striking its own balance of flexibility, strength, dimensional behavior, and processing characteristics to match device performance needs.
PebaxNylon 12Hytrel®HDPE
01 / Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials for Medical Devices
Cordica applies material science and selection expertise across extrusion, molding, converting, flexible-material processing, and full device-manufacturing programs.
Material SystemsProcess CompatibilityDevice Context
02 / Capability Overview
What the device needs to do determines the right material.
Material selection weighs flexibility, friction, stiffness, dimensional stability, processability, bonding, thermal behavior, geometry, and how the material integrates with everything else in the build.
Fluoropolymers
Polymers suited to applications where surface behavior, chemical resistance, or thermal performance drives the material decision.
PTFEePTFEFEP
High-Performance Resins
Polymers selected for component geometry, processing conditions, or performance demands that go beyond standard materials.
PEEKBioresorbable polymersOther high-performance resins
Flexible Films & Polymer Systems
Film and polymer systems chosen around welding, sealing, converting, flexibility, and the construction they need to support.
PVCTPUEVAPolymer blendsTextile and polymer composites
Functional Film Constructions
Films and interfaces brought together within multilayer converting work and wearable-device constructions.
Medical-grade adhesive filmMetallized filmRelease linerSpecialty films
03 / Material System Explorer
Performance need, material family, process, and device context, connected.
This explorer shows established relationships between these factors. It is not a tool for recommending a specific material.
Active technical mode
Engineering Polymers
Material behavior weighed alongside component geometry, processing conditions, and how the device needs to perform.
Extrusion contextMolding context
Technical References
Medical materials references
01Choosing Polymer Materials for Medical TubingHow mechanical, surface, processing, and architecture requirements come together in a tubing material decision.02Pebax / PEBA in Medical TubingPEBA grade behavior and how it shapes catheter-shaft construction.03PEEK in Medical TubingWhat a high-stiffness polymer like PEEK asks of a tubing design.04Custom Compounded PolymersBase-resin, additive, dispersion, and validation considerations behind a custom compound.
04 / Selection + Compatibility
Performance requirements become material and manufacturing decisions.
Whether a material is a standard grade or custom compounded, its behavior must work with the component's geometry, its joining method, the production process, and the scale the program needs to hit.
Mechanical Behavior
A material's flexibility, stiffness, and dimensional stability have to support the component or device it's built into, whether that means flexing repeatedly without fatigue, holding a precise dimension under load, or maintaining its shape through sterilization and handling. Geometry and mechanical behavior are evaluated together, since a material that performs well in one geometry may behave differently once wall thickness, radius, or feature size changes.
Surface + Interface
How a material's surface behaves affects everything it touches downstream, including how well it bonds to adjacent components, whether it can be overmolded, whether it welds cleanly to a compatible material, and how it holds up through assembly. Surface energy, texture, and chemical compatibility all factor into whether two materials can be joined at all, and by which method.
Processing
Extrusion, molding, converting, welding, bonding, and assembly each place different demands on a material, from melt behavior and thermal stability to how it responds to adhesives or welding energy. A material that processes well under one method will not necessarily behave the same way under another, so processing requirements are weighed alongside the material's mechanical and surface properties rather than considered separately.
Integration + Scale
Materials rarely work in isolation. A given material may need to join with other systems already built into the device, so compatibility across the full construction matters as much as the material's own properties. At the same time, whatever is selected has to support the repeatability the program requires at its intended production volume, since a material or process that performs in a lab setting does not always translate cleanly into consistent, high-volume production.
05 / Development + Production
Material decisions carried through into the manufacturing process.
Material expertise stays connected to development, geometry, tooling, converting, joining, assembly, and production requirements throughout.
01
Need
The component or device performance context defined first.
02
Family
Supported material families evaluated without separating them from process.
03
Process
Material behavior connected to extrusion, molding, or converting.
04
Device
Joining, integration, and the intended production approach considered together.
06 / Applications
The same material expertise, applied differently across each medical market.
01 / Market
Interventional Cardiology
Catheter tubing, delivery systems, molded components, and reinforced constructions.
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02 / Market
Drug Delivery
Molded dispensing components, delivery-system elements, and flexible interfaces.
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03 / Market
Wearable Patient Monitoring
Adhesive films, flexible constructions, device interfaces, and multilayer components.
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04 / Market
Mobility & Recovery
Polymer films, textile composites, welded constructions, and medical soft goods.
Explore Market →07 / Connected Expertise
The disciplines that pick up where material selection leaves off.
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Precision Extrusion
Material behavior applied to tubing geometry, layer construction, surface requirements, and downstream processing.
→02Cleanroom Molding
Resin behavior matched with component geometry, tooling, inserts, and production requirements.
→03Medical Converting
Flexible films, adhesives, foams, and substrates connected within multilayer constructions.
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