GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing and Jacketing Material

Gore offers GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing and Jacketing materials as a solution for the ergonomic and durability concerns of the medical market. This innovative product provides superior lubricity, increased tensile strength, torsion deformation resistance, and multi-modality sterilization. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing is a unique patented fluoropolymer silicone composite technology that optimizes the benefits of silicone and PTFE. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing has a silky smooth surface feel and provides greater durability and comfort when compared to conventional silicone.

Medical Applications

With the rigors of preoperative and postoperative cleansing procedures, medical equipment is under assault. Today’s medical environment demands materials that are sterilizable, biocompatible, and above all, durable. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing is suitable for a broad range of medical applications, but its unique properties make it an ideal match for the ergonomic and torsion demands of electrophysiology cables.

GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing offers these characteristics as well as superior ergonomic advantages over currently established materials. GORE™ SIL-KORE Tubing also offers better retention of key mechanical properties: strength, flexibility, and longevity. Even after 3,000 autoclave cycles, GORE™ SIL-KORE Tubing maintains its initial performance characteristics. In addition to improved handling characteristics, the tubing has a longer field life when compared to traditional medical tubing materials. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing can be designed in a range of sizes from 0.5mm to 14mm.

Features and Benefits

• High Tensile Strength
• Very Low Elongation
• Low Coefficient of Friction
• Passes Cytotoxicity Test
• Multi-modality Sterilization Compatibility
• Improved Flex Life
• Improved Abrasion Resistance
• Decreased Torsion Deformation

Properties