Aluminum Extrusions for Medical Devices
Extruded aluminum tubing and extruded shapes are widely utilized in the medical device industry, with their uses ranging from biomedical research to your doctor’s office to surgical suites.
Profile Precision Extrusions has worked with a number of medical device manufacturers on manufacturing annealed aluminum tubes that are very malleable. The flexibility that our annealed aluminum tubes offer provides an unparalleled advantage for lighting applications during minimally invasive surgeries over traditional stainless tubes, which cannot be bent.
We offer complete turnkey fabrication services on all custom extrusions along with a wide variety of coating options.
We extrude aluminum tubing and extrude shapes for medical devices such as electroporation cuvettes, stethoscopes, and optical light tips:
Compared to stainless steel and titanium medical device designs, aluminum offers the following:
- Ease of machining and fabrication
- Short lead times:
- Tooling: 4 weeks
- Samples: 1-2 weeks
- Low tooling cost
- Wide range of geometries possible
- Low cost of raw material
- Recyclability and small carbon footprint
