Specialty Needles

• Extensive experience: We have senior metallurgists and polymer scientists on staff, each with decades of experience to support your needle development.  
• Access to a vast inventory of materials: Our solution includes capabilities for wire and tubing needed to build your needle assembly. These materials are available in several types, including Javelin®; a material specifically engineered for medical use.
• Complete customization: From proximal to distal, your needle can be built to your exact specifications. This includes needle points, trocars, and stylets that can be modified with cuts, bends, roughening, over-jacketing—any type of processing you can imagine.
• Sophisticated manufacturing process:  The equipment, processes, and most importantly, the experience of our team, make it possible to create virtually any needle design in any quantity required. 

TE offers standard and unique materials for needle components.  

• Javelin^TM – A proprietary material that creates superior resilience, especially for medical components. Needles created with Javelin are unique in that they are capable of multiple punctures, making them ideal for medical uses/biopsies. 
• Stainless Steel – Both 304 (medical grade) and 316 (enhanced corrosion resistance) grades are typically used for medical components. 
• Nitinol – A Nickel-Titanium shape memory alloy that possesses the remarkable capability to remember its original shape and effectively return to it when exposed to heating. Additionally, Nitinol exhibits impressive elasticity under stress, enabling it to deform substantially and then recover its initial form when the stress is relieved. 

Materials can be engineered within the following parameters:

• Size range: 7 – 26 Gauge 
• Wall thickness: RW, TW, XTW  
• Lengths: Up to 2250mm  

Working with the TE team, you can:  

• Accelerate product development 
• Optimize development and production controls 
• Get products to market faster  

The TE team is made up of project managers, design engineers, mechanical and industrial engineers, biomedical engineers, material scientists (metals and polymers), and QA/Regulatory personnel.

To achieve the precision required for needle assemblies, two things are required. The first is machinery sophisticated enough to create the desired end product. The second, and more important of the two, is experience. The knowledge and skill of industry professionals who understand the material science involved so well and have such extensive experience that they can produce astonishingly precise components. 

The TE team can guide you through the entire process from design to production, including:

• Prototyping development 
• Concept development 
• Feasibility builds 
• Design freeze 
• Design verification 
• Validation  
• Clinical build 
• Volume manufacturing