Providing Exceptional Value to Our Customers
Ascent Medical Corporation operates from a 20,000 sq. ft. state of the art and fully integrated guidewire manufacturing facility located in Salalah, Oman. With its availability of well-qualified technical and production staff, excellent international sea and air links plus low labor and manufacturing costs, Oman is a prime location for the production of safe and effective medical guidewire products.
Combining an experienced professional management team with a high level of manufacturing capability and quality systems approved by international standard organizations, our company plays a vital role in producing and supplying safe, effective and high-quality access and interventional guidewires to the leading global medical technology companies. In addition, we have the commitment and energy to grow plus creativity, innovation and access to the global markets - making us the first and best choice for fulfilling our customers’ guidewire needs.
Guidewire Products
Ascent Medical Corporation offers a full complement of access and interventional guidewires from 0.018” diameter up to 0.060” diameter with lengths up to 500 cm. All of our guidewires are constructed using high quality materials like 304V stainless steel and include straight or J tip designs, permanent depth markings and a whole range of packaging options.
Our Interventional guidewires are manufactured using PTFE pre-coated spring wire. This coating provides a superior surface quality and offers excellent lubricity for tracking catheters through tortuous vasculature and other anatomies.
Interventional guidewire design options include both fixed and movable corewire, Mandrel, Bentson, Amplatz and Rosen configurations. By utilizing our in-house guidewire manufacturing capabilities, we can assure that our products meet the highest standards of quality and performance each and every time.
Manufacturing Capabilities:
- Centerless corewire grinding
- Plasma welding
- Laser welding
- Coil winding
- Wire forming
- Adhesive bonding
- Passivation and ultra sonic cleaning
- Cleanroom (ISO Class 7)
- Dispenser component injection molding
- Packaging options: bulk non-sterile, dispenser loaded and private label, single pack, sterile
Quality
Ascent Medical Corporation is focused on meeting the needs of our customers and to create a consistent and positive experience in the products and service levels we provide.
Through the exacting application of our internationally recognized Quality Management System, we have built a quality framework designed to enhance the safety and performance of our products while providing practical, cost effective, guidewire solutions to our clients.
Our Salalah, Oman facility is an FDA registered manufacturer and we have received both the ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2008 quality system certifications. We also provide 510k and CE Mark support for our range of standard access and interventional guidewires.
Design Support
At Ascent Medical Corporation we put our experience to work for you. By tapping into many years of guidewire design and assembly experience, our customers gain access to a nearly infinite range of sizes and design possibilities that can meet even the most exacting and challenging applications. Working in concert with our customers we can design and fabricate custom working guidewire prototypes in a timely and cost effective manner.
To learn more about our company and the array of standard and custom design options available, please visit our web site today!