Our Capabilities
We leverage state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, facilities, engineering techniques, and processes to deliver high quality products that your customers can count on in procedures. Our extensive engineering and manufacturing capabilities let us design, test and produce innovative and custom needle designs to exacting quality specifications. We’ve established a reputation for high quality and manufacturing excellence, and we offer expansive capabilities and customization options to the world’s leading medical device companies.
Types of Needles
At Spectra we work collaboratively with our customers to design and produce a wide range of precision procedural needles to meet many clinical needs. We’re a global source for custom precision, high-quality, reliable needles made in varying styles, lengths, gauges, and applications to meet your requirements.
We’ve developed a rapid design-to-specification engineering process and you can count on us to bring our experience, commitment, and passion to all your procedural needle development projects.
-Radio Frequency needles for pain management and nerve ablation
-Huber needles, which are widely used in Oncology treatments
-Biopsy needles, including core, FNA, bone, and bone marrow needles
-Stim needles used in spinal cord and peripheral nerve procedures
-Epidural and Spinal needles
-Ophthalmology needles & cannula
-Interventional Spine needles
-Veress needles
We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit and continually leverage our capabilities to grow with our customers into new clinical areas. If you have a specialty needle development need, contact us today.
Metal Manufacturing Process
We’ve been converting high-grade stainless steel into highly sophisticated finished devices and components for over 25 years. Our capabilities range from cutting, grinding, and blasting to echogenic marking, insulative coatings and assembly of medical-grade raw material into excellent quality medical devices and components in use today. Our reputation for repeatable, high-volume, high-quality metal manufacturing is one of the best in the industry.
Plastic Manufacturing Process
Our engineering and design groups are constantly working on new programs to support your molding requirements. We provide the design support, functional testing, and failure analysis you need to ensure that project specifications are met with complete accuracy.
We provide a complete documentation package for all our new molds, including product and tool drawings. We also conduct mold validations based on our customers’ protocols.
Assembly & Packaging
Our Product Assembly Group carefully designs and manufactures each component to meet stringent quality standards. We also offer quick turnaround times with our assembly and packaging services to make the process easier for you. Spectra’s new packaging capability with fully validated packaging processes is available for companies looking for contracted packaging solutions to market their products as quickly and easily as possible. We also offer an array of packaging, private-label, and EtO sterilization options to meet your needs.
Cleaning & Finishing
Spectra Medical offers a variety of options for finishing and cleaning your needles, and our engineering specialists are ready to work with you to find the best finishing process for your medical device. These options include:
-Electro-Polishing
-Electro-Etching
-Tumbling
-Automatic Passivation
-Oven and Spin Drying
-Biocompatible Chrome Plating
We employ processes specifically designed to meet your needs and we use the most current motion control components and HMI instrumentation with advanced algorithms to provide more robust, accurate and repeatable processes.
Validation Services
We understand the need to produce and review samples, manufacture validation and qualification lots, IQ/OQ/PQ protocols, first articles, etc. A cross-functional team here at Spectra, including Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Sales are all resources we bring to not only the qualification process, but the ongoing relationship with our customers.
