Imagine it. Achieve it.®
That is not just a slogan at Teleflex Medical OEM, it is our approach to doing business. We are an innovation-driven, global company dedicated to transforming medical product ideas into reality. We support our partners by leveraging our expertise and highly specialized resources to efficiently take product concepts through every phase of design, development, manufacturing and packaging.

Our brands - Beere Medical®, KMedic®, SMD™, Deknatel®, and TFX OEM® - are known worldwide as is our reputation as a proven innovator and manufacturer of custom extrusions, catheters, introducers, dilators, sutures, performance fibers, resins, surgical instruments and implants.

The specialized brands of Teleflex Medical OEM

Beere Medical is widely recognized for its ergonomically designed, machined surgical instruments used in orthopedic and spinal procedures. Customizable Beere Medical instruments include:

• Ortho-Grip® handles
• Evolution™ spinal hardware removal kits
• Centaur® torque-limiting ratchets
• Tru-Control™ ratcheting drivers
• Torque-limiting and measuring instruments
• Bone awls, probes and sounders
• Compressors and distractors
• Drills, taps and reamers
• Hand-malleable trial rods
• Mallets, tamps, osteotomes and chisels
• Rod cutters and grippers
• Rod and plate benders

When you think of high-quality, forged instrumentation, think KMedic. More than 3,200 standard patterns are readily available. All instruments are designed, crafted and manufactured for outstanding performance. If your company requires a modification of an existing instrument or an entirely new design, the KMedic team can provide exactly what you need. KMedic’s surgical instrument catalog offers:

• KMedic Kolors® curettes, punches and rongeurs
• Awls
• Bone cutting instruments
• Bone screws
• Cartilage and tendon instruments
• Depth gauges
• Drill sleeves and guides
• Elevators
• Forceps
• Mallets
• Microsurgical instruments
• Needle and pin holders
• Plate-bending instruments
• Retractors
• Scalpel handles
• Screwdrivers
• Scissors

SMD is a market leader in precision-machined medical implants, components and devices used in arthroscopic, cardiac, catheterization, dental, endoscopic, spinal, neurological and orthopedic procedures, and in other vital areas of healthcare. The SMD team provides a full range of prototyping, engineering and testing services, along with full-scale production machining, assembly and contract packaging. SMD’s capabilities include:

• CNC 5-axis vertical milling and CNC 10-axis screw machining of complete implant systems as well as complementary disposable and reusable instruments
• Turnkey finishing services:
• Validated implant cleaning process
• Clean room assembly and packaging
• Electro-polishing
• Laser marking
• Passivation
• Titanium anodizing
• Vacuum heat treating
• Bead blasting

Choose Deknatel for absorbable and nonabsorbable sutures and surgical devices. The Deknatel team can provide everything from raw materials to final, private labeled and sterilized devices. The Deknatel product portfolio includes:

• Force Fiber™ braided, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
• Cottony II™, Tevdek® and Polydek® braided polyester sutures and tapes
• Deklene® II monofilament polypropylene
• Bondek® coated braided synthetic absorbable PGA
• Monodek® monofilament synthetic absorbable PDO
• Monofilament nylon
• Braided silk
• Custom suture, resin and performance fiber products

Key capabilities

Extrusion technology
• Precision extrusions
• Wire-reinforced tubing
• Polymer-reinforced tubing
• Heat-shrink expansion
• Surface etching
• Variable stiffness construction
• Multi-lumen construction
• Multilayered co-extrusions
• Striped Encapsulon™ extrusions
• Custom compounding
• Custom colors

Extrusion fillers
• Typical loadings for radiopacifiers vary
depending on resin and filler type from
0% to 40%
• Barium sulfate
• Bismuth subcarbonate
• Bismuth trioxide
• Tungsten

Devices
• Peelable over-the-needle introducers
• Peelable interlocking sheath/dilators
• Sheath/dilators sets
• Dilators
• Custom introducers
• Epidural catheters
• Steerable devices
• Full range of device fabrication
capabilities, which include: insert
molding, drilling, tipping, printing,
shape forming and private label
packaging

Custom catheter fabrication
• Thermal and adhesive bonding
• Insert and injection molding
• Segmented catheter construction
for variable flexibility
• Tip forming and curving

Surgical instruments and implants
• Custom machined and forged stainless
steel and titanium instrumentation
• Rapid prototypes
• CNC milling and turning
• CNC swiss turning
• Electropolishing and passivation
• Titanium anodizing
• Laser marking
• Vacuum heat treating
• Bead blasting

©2008 Teleflex Incorporated. All rights reserved. Beere Medical, KMedic, SMD, Specialized Medical Devices, TFX OEM, Deknatel, Ortho-Grip, Evolution, Centaur, Tru-Control, KMedic Kolors, Force Fiber, Cottony II, Tevdek, Polydek, Deklene, Bondek, Monodek and “Imagine it. Achieve it.” are trademarks or registered trademarks of Teleflex Incorporated or its affiliates.