Our Facilities

Corporate HQ – MN
9200 Xylon Avenue North
Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
Phone: 763.493.8556

Brooklyn Park, MN - Corporate Headquarters

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES

FOCUS

  • MIS, Neuromodulation, CRM, Ophthalmology
  • Neurostimulation leads assembly
  • Precision machining, stamping, coil winding, and laser welding
  • Mechanical Engineering and process development
  • Concept through product launch capabilities

CAPABILITIES

  • Multi-axis Swiss machining
  • 5-Axis machining centers
  • Micromachining
  • Precious metal manufacturing
  • High velocity machining
  • Laser welding
  • Laser tube cutting
  • Laser marking
  • Laser assembly
  • Wire coiling and wire forming
  • Multi-axis Component Grinding
  • Plasma Welding
  • Resistance Welding
  • Catheter Tipping
  • Silicone Insert Molding
  • Thermo Plastic Insert Molding
  • Nitinol Components and Processing
  • Clean room Assembly

Brooklyn Park, MN – BP2
9315 Winnetka Ave N
Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
Phone: 763.493.8556

Brooklyn Park, MN - Neuromodulation Center of Excellence

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES

FOCUS

  • Neuromodulation Center of Excellence
  • Active implantable device design and development
  • Neuromodulation, CRM, Circulatory support (VAD)
  • Concept through product launch capabilities
  • Risk mitigation facility

CAPABILITIES

  • Manufacturing/assembly of leads
  • Manufacturing/assembly of IPG’s
  • Mechanical assemblies
  • Packaging and labeling
  • Cleanroom assembly
  • Sterilization management
  • Supply chain management / program management
  • Product lifecycle management cost and quality value engineering

Cirtec – Enfield
99 Print Shop Road
Enfield, CT 06082
Phone: 860.814.3900

Enfield, CT

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES:

  • 38,000 sq. ft. facility
  • ISO Class 7 clean room
  • Controlled-environment assembly space
  • Advanced engineering and metallurgical labs
  • Machine shop: Prototyping and fixturing
  • Flexible pilot space and dedicated commercial manufacturing cells
  • ISO 13485:2016 (Click to View)

FOCUS:

  • Active implantable device design and development
  • Neuromodulation, CRM, VAD, Implantable drug pump
  • Mechanical Engineering and process development
  • Concept through product launch capabilities
  • In-house EO and steam autoclave sterilization

CAPABILITIES:

  • Laser welding
  • Laser marking
  • Resistance welding
  • Surface treatment
  • Laser ablation
  • Catheter assembly
  • Ultrasonic welding
  • Device assembly
  • Packaging and labeling
  • Cleanroom assembly
  • Sterilization management
  • Supply chain management program management
  • Product lifecycle management cost and quality value engineering

Vascotube a Cirtec Company
Goethestr. 38
75217 Birkenfeld, Germany
Phone: +49 7231 589 10 10
Vascotube Website

Vascotube a Cirtec Company - Birkenfeld Germany

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES:

FOCUS:

  • Customized, high quality implantable tubing for the medical device industry
  • Used in minimally invasive interventional therapies including:
    • Replacement heart valves
    • Peripheral vascular and neurovascular stents

CAPABILITIES:

  • Produce Nitinol tubing for medical devices. Other materials include:
    • L-605
    • Tantalum
    • MD35N
    • Titanium
    • Magnesium
  • Tube samples available for research and product development department
    • Fast Tubes List – sample of existing product – shipped within 2 days
    • R&D Production – small quantites produced with individual dimensions – shipped in 2-4 weeks
  • Tubing for production according to customer specification – for quantities larger than 20m – 8 week lead time

Cirtec – Chandler
5710 W Chandler Blvd, Suite 150
Chandler, AZ 85226
Phone: 480.497.4511
Website

Chandler, AZ

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES:

FOCUS:

  • Custom Analog & Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits
  • Low-Power Medical ASICs
  • Integrated Circuits (ICs) powered by RF Energy Harvesting
  • Integrated Circuits (ICs) for Battery-Powered Electronics
  • IC Designs for Power Management
  • Operates as Fabless Semiconductor

CAPABILITIES:

  • Turn-key integrated circuit development, including:
    • Analog IC Design
    • Digital IC Design
    • RFIC (Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit) Design
    • Physical Design
    • Electronics Design
    • Hardware and Design Verification
    • Module Test Development
    • Qualification and production support
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for implantable medical devices that can lower power, reduce the size and improve the performance of implantable medical devices.
  • Custom integrated circuit solutions for multiple voltage and current requirements

Cirtec – Lowell
1001 Pawtucket Blvd.
Lowell, MA 01854
Phone: 1.800.261.2557 or 978.703.6822
Website

Lowell, MA

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES:

  • 40,000 sq. ft. facility
    • Laboratory, office, and production space
    • 14 controlled environment rooms
    • Three plating areas
    • Seven sputtering systems
    • Three ion-beam milling systems
    • Three Suss mask aligners
  • ISO 13485:2016 (Click to View)

FOCUS:

  • Rigid & Flexible Microcircuits
  • Electroformed Structures
  • Biocompatible Components

CAPABILITIES:

Thin-film Circuits

  • High density lines and spaces as small as 5 microns
  • Vias as small as 25 microns in diameter
  • Substrates laser cut and drilled to any geometry
  • Plated through holes and vias with “metal backed” ceramics
  • Multi-layer circuits with up to six metal layers
  • Solder masks (metal or polyimide)

Flexible Microcircuits

  • Single-layer flex circuit
  • Multi-layer flex circuit
  • Coils
  • Sensor components
  • Electrodes (neurostimulation)

Electroformed Structures

  • Sample applications:
  • Micro injector nozzles
  • Microstructures
  • Micro slits
  • Micro screen/mesh
  • Encoder disks
  • Embossing tools
  • Orifice plates
  • Microfluidics
  • Biological lab-on-chip base structures
  • Liquid-crystal-display processing

Commonly used materials:

  • Nickel cobalt
  • Nickel
  • Pure gold
  • Hard gold
  • Copper

Photolithography Services

Metallization Services

Plate/sputter such metals as:

  • Nickel cobalt (P)
  • Nickel (P, S)
  • Copper (P, S)
  • Pure gold (P, S)
  • Hard gold (P)
  • Palladium (S)
  • Platinum (P, S)
  • Rhodium (S)
  • Magnetic materials (P, S)

Miniature Biomedical Sensor Circuit Manufacturing

Cirtec – Costa Rica
Coyol Free Zone
Alajuela, Costa Rica

Alajuela, Costa Rica

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES:

FOCUS:

  • Prime facility for line transfer business
  • Large-scale manufacturing site
  • Risk mitigation facility

CAPABILITIES:

  • Extrusion
  • Coil winding
  • Leads
  • Device assembly
  • Micro-coiling

NovelCath a Cirtec Company
8609 Xylon Court North
Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
Phone: 763.494.5551
Website

NovelCath A Cirtec Company

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES

FOCUS – COMPLEX INTERVENTION CATHETER SYSTEMS

  • Electrophysiology (EP) Mapping and Ablation Catheters
  • Structural Heart Valve Delivery and Repair Delivery Systems
  • Steerable Multi Directional Catheters
  • Neuro Microcatheters

CAPABILITIES:

  • R&D and Prototyping
  • Complex Deflectable & Steerable Catheters
  • Braided and Coiled Reinforced Sheaths
  • Compound/Multi Plane Catheters
  • Microcatheters
  • Braiding
  • Coiling
  • Extrusion
  • Tipping
  • Assembly

BRAIDED AND COILED REINFORCED SHEATHS

  • Stainless steel, nitinol and polymer fibers
  • PTFE, Nylon, Polyimide, Pebax inner liners
  • Round or flat wire
  • Single or multi-variable durometer
  • Braid to coil transition
  • Constant or variable pick pattern
  • Braid density from 15 to 200 PPI
  • 8, 16 or 32 Filaments

Cirtec/NovelCath (NC2) – Santa Clara
3301 Leonard Ct
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: 408.353.6939

Cirtec Sturtevant WICirtec – Sturtevant
1810 Renaissance Blvd.
Sturtevant, WI 53177
Phone: 262.417.1307

Elastomer Engineering Center - Sturtevant, WI

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES

  • 12,500 sq. ft. facility
  • 13 Team members
  • Machines
    • CNC machining centers
    • 5-Axis machining
    • CNC lathes
    • CNC swiss lathe
    • CNC sinker EDM
    • CNC wire EDM
    • Surface grinders
    • Laser marking machine
  • Software
    • Engineering
      • SolidWorks
      • AutoCAD / DraftSight 2D
      • Abaqus Non-Linear FEA
        • De-molding simulations
        • Stress analysis for mold components
      • Mold flow simulation
    • CAM / CNC programming
      • Gibbs Cam
    • CAM Machining Strategist
      • Power mill
      • Part maker
      • Surfcam
    • Customer-specified insertion force studies

 Focus

  • Rapid prototyping
  • Solid modeling
  • FEA simulation
  • Mold flow simulation

 CORE CAPABILITIES

  • Rapid prototyping
  • Solid modeling
  • FEA simulation
  • Mold flow simulation
  • Industry-leading CAM (computer-aided-manufacturing) software
  • Design for manufacturability
  • Proprietary mold development
  • Early-stage prototyping
  • CNC swiss turning/milling
  • CNC sinker and wire EDM machining
  • High speed 3- and 5-axis CNC machining
  • High grade materials
  • Flashless tooling
  • Rubber to plastic overmold tooling design and build
  • Rubber to metal overmold tooling design and build

Cirtec Sturtevant WICirtec – Sturtevant
1810 Renaissance Blvd.
Sturtevant, WI 53177
Phone: 262.417.1307

Elastomer Center of Excellence - Sturtevant, WI

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES

  • 89,000 sq. ft. facility
  • 9,710 sq. ft. white room manufacturing space
  • 8,000 sq. ft. class 8 cleanroom space
  • 1,200 sq. ft. class 7 cleanroom space
  • ISO 13485:2016 (Click to View)
  • 56 molding presses ranging in size from 12 to 200 ton
  • 185 team members

FOCUS

  • Liquid Injection Molding/LSR-Liquid Silicone Rubber molding
  • Extrusion
  • Assembly and packaging

Capabilities

  • Rapid prototyping
  • Liquid Injection Molding/LSR-Liquid Silicone Rubber molding
  • Low volume transfer molding
  • Extrusion
  • Insert overmolding
  • Cryogenic de-flash and wash
  • Precise material dosing
  • Coating applications
  • Pad printing
  • Medium and low volume
  • High volume cold runner
  • Assemblies and packaging
  • Implantable LSR
  • In-house tooling
  • Full mold automation including part removal
  • Clean room molding and assemblies in ISO 13485 Class 7 and 8
  • Automated vision inspection
  • Data integration throughout the plant

Rock Hill SC FacilityCirtec – Rock Hill
663 Bryant Blvd.
Rock Hill, SC 29732
Phone: 803.366.7036

Elastomer Center of Excellence - Rock Hill, SC

 

CAPACITY/FEATURES

  • 58,000 sq. ft. facility
  • 200 team members
  • ISO 13485:2016 (Click to View)
  • 65 molding presses ranging in size from 150 to 800 ton
  • 40 custom-developed automated vision inspection systems
  • Class 8 clean room

 FOCUS

  • Rapid prototyping
  • Molding: HCR wasteless/flashless and compression
  • Materials development
  • Automation development

CAPABILITIES

  • Rapid prototyping
  • Molding: HCR wasteless/flashless and compression
  • Core materials: Synthetic Polyisoprene, Neoprene, Butyls, EPDMs, Silicones
  • Cryogenic de-flash and chlorination
  • Custom material development support, internal compounding, and mixing
  • Tooling design
  • Dedicated in-house mold maintenance
  • FEA modeling and simulation
  • Slitting and die cutting
  • Data integration throughout plant
  • Automated vision inspection and automation
  • Analytical laboratory, FTIR, UV, DSC
  • ISO class 8 clean rooms, ISO 13485
  • Process validations
  • Precision slitting for flow control