Ridgeback Technologies

By Nemanja Spasojevic – Senior Polymer Development Engineer

At last, a Balloon that cuts to the heart of the problem. Our CrossCut Balloon contains a flat blade section(s), which is an integral part of the balloon wall with endless possibilities for laser cutting shapes. We can cut any profile or shape e.g., teeth for cutting, ridges for stent positioning/retrieval, slots, or holes for drug eluting applications etc.

Ridgeback Technologies not only provide normal catheter balloons, but we also provide Perfusion Balloons, Cutting Balloons and Sensor Balloons with highly competitive lead times due to our in-house resources covering all aspects of Balloon Design and Manufacture.

For many years it has been a desire of medical device manufacturers to have a Cutting Balloon. This has never been properly achieved due to the complexity of Balloon Manufacture, until now. Ridgeback Technologies have created an innovative and highly efficient Cutting…

By Nemanja Spasojevic – Senior Polymer Development Engineer

Ridgeback Technologies not only provide normal catheter balloons, we also provide Perfusion Balloons, Cutting Balloons and Sensor Balloons with highly competitive lead times due to our in-house resources covering all aspects of Balloon Design and Manufacture.

For many years it has been a desire of medical device manufacturers to have a Perfusion Balloon. This has never been properly achieved due to the complexity of Balloon Manufacture, until now. Ridgeback Technologies have created an innovative and highly efficient Perfusion Balloon that fulfils all the functions required while still having the same basic architecture to bond to existing catheter platforms.

These Perfusion Balloons take the form of two lobe or three lobe designs which allow for up to 50% Perfusion abilities during deployment.

See attached pictures of a two-lobe design. The advantage of this balloon is it can com…