Why are most catheters still glued and heat-shrunk together by hand? Simone Maccagnan from Gimac International makes the case for microextrusion: single continuous parts, controlled molecular weight and crystallinity, and dynamic extrusion that changes stiffness along one tube.

In this episode:

- How microextrusion replaces multi-part catheter assemblies, and why that matters for validation, scrap and patient safety

- What dynamic extrusion is, and where the physics gets hard

- How inline measurement cuts revalidation and total cost

- An honest take on fluoropolymers, PFAS and where automation helps

This episode was sponsored by Gimac.

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