Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Alexandra Løvdal

Palle Munk Hansen

Kasper Klausen

Jeppe Dufresne Johnsen

Christian Dela

Arne Mølgaard-Nielsen

The present disclosure provides a processing method for a polymer material to create a medical device with improved mechanical properties. This method allows better tailoring of the material's mechanical properties, hence a device to withstand greater structural loads in vivo. The method comprises providing an extruded polymer tube having an initial diameter and an initial length along a longitudinal direction, and longitudinally, bi-directionally straining the extruded polymer tube in a mold from the initial length to an expanded or extended length. The mold comprises a plurality of stationary heating elements. After longitudinally straining the tube, it is radially expanding in the mold from the initial diameter to an expanded diameter.

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Charlottenlund, Denmark

Alexandra Løvdal