Balloon forming is the keystone process for balloon catheter manufacturing. The electrically heated stretch blow molding process enables the production of various very accurate and repeatable high-quality balloons with tight tolerances in an extensive variety of sizes and shapes. BW-TEC offers a variety of balloon forming machines ranging from 1-up to 4-up systems. Equipment offerings come in vertical, horizontal and soft split mold configurations. All of BW-TEC balloon forming equipment is designed for the production of high-quality polymer balloons for angioplasty and other medical applications.

Features include:

• Space saving vertical configurations
• Multi-part process with 4-up machines
• Soft balloon split mold machines for large diameter urethane balloons
• Balloon necking machine designed to neck down balloon tubes
• Balloon mold diameters: Ø 1.5 – 40 mm
• Balloon mold length: 6– 350 mm