Since 1994, EPflex Feinwerktechnik GmbH has manufactured guide wires, nitinol baskets, hypotubes and stylets as well as customized special products. Besides standard guidewires EPflex is specialized in manufacture Nitinol guidewires in all variations. Today, EPflex is one of the leading OEM suppliers in the area of medical technology and is setting its focus on processing wires, braids and tubes made of stainless steel, Nitinol, polymers and special materials (laser welding, centerless grinding, bonding, forming). The products are assembled in a class 8 clean room, which has received EN-ISO 14644-3 certification. Through the inauguration of a second production building in January 2012, now EPflex Feinwerktechnik GmbH has 4,300 square meters of production area. Both serial production and individual solutions makes EPflex to a competent partner for flexible products from development of prototypes to serial production. Qualified personnel and the use of modern technologies ensure a constant high quality of the products. Automated manufacturing systems added by manual production steps gives potential to produce efficient complex parts in highest quality. The company achieves an annual growth rate of 10 to 12 %. About 280 employees currently generate an annual turnover of 21 million Euros, whereof more than 60 % are achieved by guide wires. By innovative new products and the permanent further development of existing products, EPflex contributes to improve medical technology and thus increase the security of medical interventions.

• published: 21 Aug 2013
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