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Medical Extrusion Operations
Research, tooling, extrusion and quality, all in-house in our 46,500 square foot facility in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Concept to commercial run
We extrude custom medical tubing. We do it exclusively, and we do it right.
Our customers need some of the smallest and most complex tubing in the medical device industry, with some of the tightest tolerances. Every extrusion technician at Microspec works to a level of precision measured in thousandths of an inch, because someone’s life may depend on the device you have developed.
Research, process development, tooling and extrusion all stay in-house at our 46,500 square foot medical extrusion facility in Peterborough, New Hampshire. That makes us more agile when a specification changes and gives us tighter control over the finished part.
46,500
Square foot facility
18
Extrusion lines
22
Extruders
30%
Of utilities from solar
Operations
Four teams, one building.
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Manufacturing
Extrusion lines for prototype and high-volume runs, run by technicians averaging over a decade of experience.
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Quality systems
ISO 13485:2016 certified, with laser gauging and vision inspection before, during and after every run.
Our facility
What is inside 327 Jaffrey Road.
Our building has grown from 1,200 square feet in 1990 to 46,500 square feet today. The 2025 addition brought a two-floor warehouse, more office space and separate shipping and receiving docks.
Manufacturing area
- 18 extrusion lines and 22 extruders, including co-extrusion, tri-extrusion and intermittent lines
- Controlled manufacturing environment with gowning procedures
- Climate controlled warehouse
- Flexible packaging options to customer specifications
- Kanban programs available
Extrusion capabilities
- Bump tubing, co- and tri-extrusions, micro-extrusions and multi-layered tubing
- Multi-lumen tubing, profile extrusions, over extrusions and coated wire
- Balloon tubing, fully encapsulated stripes, ribbon and intermittent extrusions
- Most thermoplastic elastomers and engineering resins, including fluoropolymers and custom formulations
Technical services
- Annealing services, with custom annealing ovens built in-house
- Raw material and product testing, including burst and tensile
- Product validation including OQ, PQ and PPAP through our JumpStart Validation Program
- A materials testing lab being expanded to four times its current size, plus a new materials drying room
Machine shop and quality control
- MasterCAM programming and wire EDM
- Designs and fabricates our proprietary tooling and maintains every line
- Automated vision systems and laser gauging
- Inspection at the start of, during and after each run, and before shipment
Continuous improvement
Lean, measured and always getting better.
We improve our operations through team problem solving, Lean manufacturing and Good Manufacturing Practices. In 2008 a New Hampshire Job Training Fund grant trained our people in Lean manufacturing and we set up our first Lean cell. Today we focus on automation, data-driven process optimization and better use of production and post-production feedback.
Our quality systems ensure that everyone at Microspec works with the same concern for quality, so only high quality tubing goes out the door.
Questions
Operations, answered.
Want to know more about how we work? Ask us, or come see for yourself.
Where is Microspec located?
Our facility is at 327 Jaffrey Road in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Research, tooling, extrusion, quality and shipping all happen there.
How large is your facility?
About 46,500 square feet of manufacturing, warehouse and office space, with 18 extrusion lines and 22 extruders.
Do you allow customer audits?
Yes. We welcome customer audits, and our quality team works with yours to align inspection methods.
Can you handle both prototypes and high volumes?
Yes. We run small development lots and high-volume commercial runs of millions of tubes in the same building.
Come see where your tubing is made.
Send us your specs, or just describe the problem. A member of our team will follow up personally to walk through tolerances, materials and schedule.
Start a project
Tell us about your part and our team will follow up personally.
Have full drawings and tolerances? Use our detailed request form.