Integer serves the medical device industry focusing on the following lines of high-quality products:
MEDICAL
Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) & Neuromodulation – Within this product-line Integer offers a comprehensive collection of technologies and capabilities. Integer’s complete spectrum of design, development, and manufacturing expertise provides customers with a superior quality solution in an efficient, cost-effective, and consistent manner.
Cardiac and neuromodulation products include batteries, capacitors, filtered and unfiltered feedthroughs, engineered components, implantable stimulation leads and enclosures used in Implantable Medical Devices (“IMD”). Additionally, we offer value-added assembly for these IMDs. An IMD is an instrument that is surgically inserted into the body to provide diagnosis and/or therapy. One sector of the IMD market is cardiac, which is comprising devices such as implantable pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (“ICD”), cardiac resynchronization therapy (“CRT”) devices, cardiac resynchronization therapy with backup defibrillation devices (“CRT-D”), insertable cardiac monitors (“ICM”), and ventricular assist devices. Another sector of the IMD market is neuromodulation, comprised of pacemaker-type devices that stimulate nerves for the treatment of various conditions. Beyond established therapies for pain control, incontinence, movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonia) and epilepsy, nerve stimulation for the treatment of other disabilities such as sleep apnea, heart failure, migraines, obesity and depression has shown promising results.
The following are the main categories of battery-powered IMDs and the principal illness or symptoms treated by each device:
Device |
Principal Illness or Symptom |
Pacemakers |
Abnormally slow heartbeat (Bradycardia) |
ICDs |
Rapid and irregular heartbeat (Tachycardia) |
CRT / CRT-Ds |
Congestive heart failure |
ICMs |
Unexplained fainting or risk of cardiac arrhythmias |
Neurostimulators |
Chronic pain, incontinence, movement disorders, epilepsy, obesity, or depression |
Cochlear hearing devices |
Hearing loss |
IMD systems generally include an IPG and one or more stimulation leads. An IPG is a battery powered device that produces electrical pulses. A lead then carries this electrical pulse from the IPG to the heart, spinal cord or other location in the body. Our portfolio of proprietary technologies, products, and capabilities has been built to provide our cardiac and neuromodulation customers with a single source for the vast majority of the components and subassemblies required to manufacture an IPG or lead, including complete lead systems. Our investments in research and development have generated proprietary products such as the QHR ® , QMR ® , and QCAPS TM primary battery and capacitor lines, which have enabled our OEM partners to make improvements in their system offerings in terms of device reliability, size, longevity and power. Our Xcellion TM line of Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries leverages decades of implantable battery research, development and manufacturing expertise. This line of battery cells includes the optional CoreGuard TM feature, which enables batteries to discharge to zero volts without performance degradation.
The following are the principal products and services offered by our Cardiac & Neuromodulation product line:
- Cardiac Rhythm Management - provides a broad range of products and services to enable next generation CRM medical devices to address heart disease and heart rhythm disorders through such systems as: pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy devices, implantable cardiac monitors and other novel implantable devices. Integer’s battery and capacitor technologies provide a reliable and safe power source for our customer’s CRM system, based on decades of research, development and manufacturing experience. As a leading supplier of low-polarization specialty-coated electrodes and lead components, Integer provides a full range of therapy delivery development and manufacturing solutions.
- Neuromodulation – provide a wide range of products and services for our customers’ next generation neuromodulation medical devices. Examples include implantable medical devices that address chronic pain, hearing loss, incontinence, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, and sleep disorders.
We help our customers develop and manufacture unique neuromodulation solutions, including IPGs, programmer systems, battery chargers, and patient controllers. We offer a full range of therapy delivery development & manufacturing solutions for low-polarization specialty-coated electrodes, lead components and fully finished lead systems.
Cardio & Vascular (C&V)– Offers a full range of products and services from Integer’s global facilities for the development of diagnostic and interventional cardiac and endovascular devices. Integer’s comprehensive design and development services produce components, subassemblies, and finished devices for a wide range of cardiac and endovascular procedures. Following are the principal products and services offered by our C&V product-line:
- Cardiovascular and structural heart products - products used for vascular, cardiac surgery and structural heart disease. Within this product line, Integer produces guidewire and catheter components, subassemblies and completed devices for cardiovascular, cardiac surgery and structural heart disease applications. For vascular procedures, product applications include introducers, steerable sheaths, guidewires, guide catheters, microcatheters, ultrasound catheters, and delivery systems, balloon expandable delivery systems, stents, atherectomy devices, embolic protection devices, catheter design and assembly, sterile packaging, catheter shafts, radiopaque marker bands, molded hubs, fabricated hypotube assembly, and wire stent frames. For cardiac surgery and structural heart disease procedures, product applications are comprised of access and delivery systems for patient foramen ovale closure devices, vessel harvesting systems, beating heart surgery systems, transcatheter heart valves, heart valves and leaflets, and anastomosis devices.
- Peripheral Vascular, Neurovascular, Urology and Oncology - products primarily focused on the design and manufacturing of devices used during the treatment of peripheral arterial disease, peripheral transcatheter embolization and occlusion, aortic aneurysm repair, arteriovenous malformations and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Within this product line, we design and manufacture guidewire and catheter components, subassemblies and completed devices for the various applications.
The primary neurovascular applications for these products are cerebrovascular aneurysms, while the urology and oncology applications are stone retrieval, thermal tumor ablation, transarterial chemoembolization and radio frequency probes. Our products within this area include peripheral vascular and urology guidewires, neurovascular and oncology micro-guidewires, angiographic and diagnostic guidewires, guiding catheters, support and crossing catheters, embolic protection devices, micro-catheters, and delivery systems.
- Electrophysiology, Infusion Therapy & Hemodialysis - products include devices that are used in the electrophysiology ablation catheter and cardiac rhythm systems. Within this product line, we produce guidewire and catheter components, subassemblies and completed devices for the various electrophysiology applications, as well as components and assemblies for cardiac and neurostimulation leads and implantable pulse generators (“IPG”).
Electrophysiology atrial fibrillation ablation catheters, which deliver therapy to the heart and eliminate tissue paths for irregular electrical impulses, and electrophysiology catheters, which diagnose irregular electrical impulses in the heart’s electrical system, are the focal points of our electrophysiology offering. For stimulation therapy applications, cardiac rhythm management (“CRM”) devices, such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, cardiac leads and neurostimulation devices for spinal cord and deep brain stimulation, are the primary applications of focus.
Power Solutions (AS&O) – Offers a broad range of products and services across the many businesses it serves. In partnership with customers, AS&O offers advanced development, engineering and program management, which provides Integer with an in-depth understanding of our customers’ market drivers and end-user needs. Following is more information about the principal products and services offered by Integer’s AS&O product line:
- Power Solutions - offerings include state of the art customized rechargeable batteries and chargers, non-rechargeable batteries and wireless charging systems. Integer designs and develops basic and “smart” chargers and docking stations of varying complexities to safely and reliably maximize the efficiency of the rechargeable batteries. Integer develops batteries, and the attendant chargers, for patient monitoring, portable defibrillators, and portable ultrasound, X-Ray machines, hearing devices and other devices. Integer collaborates with customers on product development opportunities incorporating our power solutions into Class 1, 2 or 3 medical devices.
NON-MEDICAL
Electrochem – Integer’s non-medical power solutions enable the success and advancement of customers’ critical non-medical applications. Whether custom battery packs are used to monitor potential environmental catastrophes, to support troops on the battle field or to explore geologic formations below the earth’s surface, one thing is constant - failure is not an option.
Electrochem provides customized battery power and management systems, charging and docking stations, and power supplies to markets where safety, reliability, quality and durability are critical. We design customized primary (non-rechargeable) and secondary (rechargeable) battery solutions, which are used in the energy, military and environmental markets.
Electrochem’s primary lithium power solutions, which include high, moderate and low rate non-rechargeable cell solutions, are utilized in extreme conditions and can withstand exceptionally high and low temperatures, and high shock and vibration. Electrochem’s product designs incorporate protective circuitry, glass-to-metal hermetic seals, fuses and diodes to help ensure safe, durable and reliable power as devices are subjected to these harsh conditions. Our primary batteries are often used in remote and demanding environments, including down hole drilling tools, military devices, and oceanographic survey vessels buoys.
In addition to primary power solutions, Electrochem offers customized secondary or rechargeable battery packs, in a diverse range of chemistries for critical applications requiring rechargeable solutions. Rechargeable chemistries include lithium ion, lithium ion polymer, nickel metal hydride, nickel cadmium, lithium iron phosphate and sealed lead acid. Electrochem’s rechargeable battery packs include advanced electronics, smart charging and battery management systems and are used in critical military and industrial applications.