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Bentec: Providing the next generation in silicone manufacturing

Bentec specializes in manufacturing the highest quality silicone products for the medical device industry. The company has ISO 13485: 2003, FDA and CE Registrations for our products. Bentec manufactures silicone medical components including molded, extruded, calendered, and assembled products. Our professional services can assist in the areas of design, engineering, prototyping and small to high volume production.

Understanding your business is our business. Bentec has a history of innovative thinking, the ability to meet significant design challenges, and an understanding of cost and value. Our customers are our partners and we take a team approach to meeting your needs; involving every department from engineering to customer service. Our unique approach to custom manufacturing allows for flexible, rapid and cost efficient solutions to meet our customers needs.

Since 1985, Bentec has been one of the few completely integrated suppliers of custom manufactured medical devices. Our Northern CA facility offers the most up-to-date in-house capabilities for design, prototype, and fabrication of the highest quality silicone components and assemblies. This means that when you have an unusual or difficult component need; we can help develop the product that precisely meets your strictest specifications. Coming up with solutions to meet even the most challenging design problems is one of our greatest strengths. The key to our success has been a philosophy of “not leaving well enough alone”.

Bentec provides a wall to wall solution for your project needs. \

Extrusion
Bentec has extensive extrusion capabilities ranging from single lumen tubing to co-extrusions and multi-lumen tubing with up to 22 lumens and more possible. Our proprietary extrusion processes allow us the ability of easily holding tolerances of +/- .001” and in some instances +/- .0005”.

Extruded profiles are limited only by your imagination, plus some laws of physics. Additional equipment includes multiple-axis laser micrometers and on-line cut-to-length machinery.

Molding
With a variety of state of the art molding presses, Bentec has the option for utilizing the optimum molding method for your product design and budget. Bentec uses the following methods for silicone molding: liquid injection, gum injection, transfer molding and compression molding. Our molding philosophy is to minimize secondary operations by always build the best mold and running it on the best equipment.

Calendering
Bentec has some of the most extensive calendering experience in the industry with unparalleled quality and consistency. Utilizing the silicone formulation of your choice, Bentec has the ability of fabricating thicknesses ranging from .003” to .125” for non-reinforced sheeting and .006” to .150” for reinforced sheeting. We can supply both vulcanized and un-vulcanized silicone sheeting in both sheet stock or as a continuous roll.

Assembly
Bentec performs assembly and sub-assembly of medical devices with the capability of utilizing our certified Class 10,000 and Class 100,000 clean rooms.
Bentec assembles specified silicone and non silicone products and provides all necessary testing in-house.

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