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Distal
The tip, its geometry, marker bands, and whatever gets integrated at the distal end.
01 / Interventional Cardiology
Interventional Cardiology Device Manufacturing
Catheter programs pull together precision materials, extrusion, reinforced shaft construction, specialized processing, assembly, and development support. Cordica builds all of it under one roof.
Catheter SystemsDelivery SystemsDevice Integration
02 / Device System
A catheter isn't a single component. It's a system.
Materials, shaft architecture, reinforcement, distal geometry, steering, and bonding all must resolve into one buildable system, not get engineered in isolation.
02
Shaft
The tubing itself: liners, reinforcement, jackets, and how the layers reflow together.
03
Proximal
Handles, hubs, and the steering interface the physician actually touches.
04
System
Everything that turns built components into a finished, tested, shippable device.
Illustrative device architecture. Components vary by program.
03 / Catheter Architecture
Design the shaft to what the device needs.
Tubing Design
Lumen count, wall profile, and layering all get built into a single continuous extrusion, not assembled afterward from separate pieces.
Multi-lumenTaperedExtruded shaft
Illustrative architecture only. Components and construction vary by program.
04 / Engineering Requirements
Device requirements shape architecture, materials, and manufacturing.
Device requirementEngineering considerationManufacturing implication
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Shaft behavior
Flexibility, pushability, torque response, trackability, and kink resistance are set by the shaft architecture, not adjusted after the fact.
Braid, coil, liner, jacket, and reflow get engineered as one construction, since changing one changes what the others can do.
02
Tubing geometry
Lumen count, balloon integration, tapering, and layering all determine what the finished catheter can do.
Extrusion and material choices get made against the finished catheter, not against the tubing spec in isolation.
03
Distal integration
Distal geometry, marker bands, nitinol, hypotubes, coatings, and bonded interfaces are where component integration actually gets tested.
Specialized processing and assembly get planned into the manufacturing pathway from the start, not bolted on at the end.
04
Finished system
Balloon assemblies, handles, and mechanical subassemblies all must fit the device architecture that's already been set.
Assembly, kitting, labeling, and packaging carry that architecture through to repeatable production, unchanged.
05 / Connected Capabilities
The right technical discipline, brought in at the right point.
Capability relationship / 01
Precision Extrusion
The tubing itself, extruded to the tolerances a catheter or delivery system needs, not sourced from a separate vendor and adapted.
Explore Precision ExtrusionTechnical References
Catheter shaft construction references
01Braided Catheter TubingHow braid architecture shapes catheter shaft behavior.02Coil-Reinforced Catheter TubingHow helical coil reinforcement sits within the shaft wall.03Multi-Durometer Catheter ShaftsHow durometer changes along a single shaft, region by region.04Tapered & Bump TubingWhere and how ID, OD, wall, and profile shift along a single extrusion.05High-Pressure Medical TubingWhat a composite tubing wall has to hold up against under pressure.06Guide Catheter DesignHow layered shaft, liner, reinforcement, and distal construction come together in a guide catheter.07Balloon Dilation Catheter DesignShaft, inflation pathway, balloon, and the attachment region that ties them together.
06 / Development Pathway
Develop the device the way it will really be built.
This pathway is a starting point, not a fixed sequence every program has to follow.
01
Define Device
What the device must do, and in what order that gets solved.
02
Develop System
Turning the concept into a working shaft, prototyped, materialed, and built as one connected effort rather than a handoff chain.
03
Verify Design
Testing the design against what it actually has to survive, then refining until the process is ready.
04
Transfer + Manufacture
Taking the integrated device from a working build to something that ships consistently, kitted and packaged every time.
07 / Interventional Context
01 / Application
Structural Heart
TAVR, TMVR, and TTVR delivery systems built around the same core components: a steerable sheath, a deflectable catheter, and the laminated shaft and balloon assembly that get it there.
02 / Application
Electrophysiology
Multi-lumen shafts and RF transseptal systems, engineered for the steerable, deflectable behavior ablation devices depend on.
03 / Application
Vascular Access & Delivery
Getting a catheter or delivery system where it needs to go and making sure it deploys reliably once there.
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The same engineering discipline, applied to neurovascular anatomy that leaves even less room for error.
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