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When Metal Meets Polymer: Rethinking Catheter Design with Laser-Cut Hypotube Reinforcement
A practical look at the options, tradeoffs, and construction approaches behind laser-cut hypotube reinforcement – and how liner materials and processing choices come together to shape finished catheter behavior.
Live Webinar
Even a well-designed catheter using laser-cut hypotube reinforcement can be limited by the materials and processes around it.
The liner has to bond. Reflow windows can introduce stiffness. And at the distal end, polymer properties can restrict how a highly flexible laser-cut pattern actually bends in the finished catheter.
What changes when hypotube pattern, liner, and process are evaluated in the same design conversation?
Join a Chamfr technical discussion with Nick Zanobini of Symmetry Laser and Benny Cheung of Dynaflex Technologies, moderated by Steve Maxson and Jay Vinson.
The session will explore laser-cut hypotube design as the foundation, then examine how cut patterns, liners, bonding strategy, reflow, and processing all interact to shape finished catheter behavior.
They will unpack design options, challenges, tradeoffs, and construction approaches for laser-cut hypotube reinforcement, with practical notes on what works and what doesn’t.
Date
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Time
1 PM ET
Discussion and live Q&A
Discussion and live Q&A
You’ll Learn About:
- Laser-cut hypotube design and cut pattern selection, catheter assembly, manufacturability, and reflow approaches
- What works, what doesn’t, and the tradeoffs behind liner bonding, reflow windows, and kerf design
- PTFE and fusion-bondable liner architectures, including durometer, lubricity, sterilization compatibility, and bonding considerations
- How liner flexibility and laser-cut pattern design each affect distal bend performance – and where those choices interact
- How the interfaces between catheter components and the overall architecture shape final device behavior
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Meet the Speakers
Nick Zanobini
Co-Founder & CEO
Symmetry Laser
Nick Zanobini is Co-Founder and CEO of Symmetry Laser, with more than a decade of experience across MedTech engineering and manufacturing. His background spans laser manufacturing, equipment engineering, and medical device production, with prior engineering and leadership roles at Resonetics, Aduro Laser, and Boston Scientific.
Benny Cheung
Technical Lead
Dynaflex Technologies
Benny brings extensive hands-on experience across catheter R&D, extrusion, and medical device manufacturing. As Technical Lead at Dynaflex Technologies, he works with MedTech teams on catheter design, material selection, DFM, prototyping, and process optimization to help move concepts toward manufacturable solutions.
Jay Vinson
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer
Symmetry Laser
Jay has spent more than 20 years in the medical device industry across engineering, quality, and commercial roles. After design, development, and sales work on cardiac surgery products at Guidant, he moved into contract manufacturing focused on components and subassemblies, including a Director of Business Development role at Resonetics. He will co-moderate the discussion.
Steve Maxson
VP of Growth
Chamfr
Steve Maxson brings more than two decades of experience in medical extrusion and MedTech. He specializes in helping teams move innovative concepts toward scalable solutions and will moderate this technical discussion on catheter architecture.
Who Should Attend
Built for MedTech Teams Designing Advanced Catheter Systems
This webinar is designed for R&D engineers, product development teams, NPI teams, and manufacturing/process engineers working with or evaluating laser-cut hypotube reinforcement.
It will be especially relevant for teams navigating liner selection, bonding, reflow, and distal-flexibility tradeoffs in catheter development.
Register now to make more informed design decisions across hypotube reinforcement, liner selection, and processing, and to design for the flexibility and performance your application requires.
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