Tipping

A Quick Look at Tube Tipping

One of the steps taken in the fabrication of catheters, introducers, dilators and other tubes put into the body is tube tipping. Tube tipping is done by very carefully heat treating the end of a tube to the point that it begins to soften.  Our operators then conform this softened plastic into your detailed dimensions.

Some of FBK’s customers want us to only “take the edge off” by forming a slight radius on the outside edge of the tube.  Other customers specify a more severe radius.  Accordingly, we begin to close off the end of the tube or decrease its inner diameter.  Still others want FBK to totally reconfigure the tube by thermoforming the end of the tube into a shape that looks like the end of a sharpened pencil. Application engineering by the customer determines the shape and geometry of the product we make to their specification.

FBK: Your Offsite Design Engineering Department

Call FBK’s Product Development Team at  (205) 942-6393 to review  your company’s need for tube tipping or e-mail us at Info@FBKMedicalTubing.com. We will develop a quote, expedite required tooling, extrude the tubing, form it to your exact specifications and have product in your hands in a matter of weeks.