Applied Plastics

Applied Plastics is a leader in advanced catheter components including the trademarked PTFE Natural® coating applied to fine wire, forming & extrusion mandrels and pull wires. 

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For over 65 years, our lubricious and robust coatings, with tolerances held to +/- .0003″, provide the highest level of bond strength & durability to withstand the high temperatures required while manufacturing advanced catheter systems.

Our smooth, lubricious coated fine wire, mandrels and hypotubes enable faster and higher quality catheter production and allow for improved navigation through the body’s tortuous anatomies.

As more advanced devices are used in increasingly complex interventional procedures, medical device companies require the highest quality of PTFE coating and seek out Applied Plastics’ capabilities.

Applied Plastics’ customers include the leading medical device OEMs and contract manufacturers focused on the high growth and innovative vascular catheter device market including therapy areas ranging from cardiac rhythm management (CRM), electrophysiology (EP), neurovascular, peripheral vascular and structural heart.

Applied Plastics became a portfolio company of Vance Street Capital in January 2019.

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