Teleflex Medical OEM - Development and Manufacture of Medical Instruments, Sutures and Extrusion

Teleflex Medical OEM is a global business dedicated to transforming medical product ideas into market-ready products. We support our partners by leveraging our expertise and specialized resources to take your product idea through every phase of design, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing and assembly.

Our brands – Deknatel®, TFX OEM®, Beere Medical®, KMedic® and SMD™ (Specialized Medical Devices) – are known worldwide, as is our reputation as a proven innovator and manufacturer of custom extrusion, catheters, introducers, specialty sutures, performance fibres, resins, bone fixation devices, surgical instruments and implants.

Deknatel® sutures, resins, performance fibres and yarns

Through our Deknatel® brand, Teleflex Medical OEM can provide everything from raw materials to private-labeled and sterilized devices. Products include:

• Force Fiber® braided suture of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
• Cottony II™, Tevdek® and Polydek® braided polyester sutures and tapes
• Deklene® II suture of monofilament polypropylene
• Bondek® and Bondek® Plus coated sutures of braided synthetic absorbable PGA
• Monodek® suture of monofilament synthetic absorbable PDO
• Monofilament nylon suture
• Braided silk suture
• Resins
• Performance fibres and yarns
• Customized medical devices

TFX OEM® extrusion, catheter fabrication and custom medical devices

Our TFX OEM® brand is known worldwide for custom extrusions made from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) as well as other high-performance materials. Teleflex Medical OEM provides the world's top medical device manufacturers with heat-shrink, standard extrusion, etched liners and other precision products that incorporate ultra-thin walls, profiles, multi-lumen and braided-reinforced tubing.

Customized extrusion products include:

• Acetal
• Ethylenetetrafluoroethylene (ETFE)
• Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)
• Nylon
• Pebax
• Perfluoroalkoxyl (PFA)
• Polycarbonate (PC)
• Polyethylene (PE)
• Polyether block amide (PEBA)
• Polypropylene (PP)
• Polyurethane (PUR)
• Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
• Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)

Other customizable products include:

• Catheter and microcatheter fabrication
• Medical devices
• Introducer kits

Beere Medical® machined medical instruments for orthopedic and spinal procedures

The Beere Medical® brand is widely recognized for its ergonomically-designed, machined medical instruments used in orthopedic and spinal procedures. Customizable Beere Medical® products include:

• Ortho-Grip® instrument handles
• Evolution™ spinal hardware removal kits
• Tru-Control™ ratcheting drivers
• Torque-limiting and measuring instruments
• Bone awls, probes and sounders
• Mallets, tamps, osteotomes and chisels
• Rod cutters and grippers

KMedic® German, forged medical instruments

When you think of high-quality, forged instrumentation, think of our KMedic brand®. More than 3,200 patterns are available. Whether your company requires a modification of an existing instrument or an entirely new design, Teleflex Medical OEM can provide exactly what you need. Products include:

• KMedic Kolors® color-coded curettes, punches and rongeurs
• Bone cutting instruments
• Cartilage and tendon instruments
• Depth gauges
• Drill sleeves and guides
• Forceps
• Microsurgical instruments
• Needle and pin holders

SMD™ precision-machined medical instruments, implants and components

SMD™ is a market leader in precision-machined medical implants, instruments and components used in arthroscopic, cardiac, dental, endoscopic, neurological and orthopaedic procedures, and in other vital areas of healthcare. SMD’s core technologies include:

• Mono and polyaxial screws
• Small bone screws and pegs
• Flat or anatomic plates – machined or bent
• Straight or pre-bent rods and connectors
• Machined PEEK™ products
• Implant insertion instruments

Manufacturing capabilities include:

• Trial runs to large volumes
• CNC five-axis vertical milling and CNC ten-axis screw machining of complete implant systems as well as complementary disposable and reusable instruments
• Validated implant cleaning process
• Clean rooms for assembly and packaging
• Electro-polishing
• Laser marking
• Passivation
• Titanium anodizing
• Vacuum heat treating
• Bead blasting