Adam Spence develops reinforced medical tubing and complex catheter shafts for vascular technologies. In 2004, Adam Spence was acquired by W. L. Gore & Associates, but W.L Gore divested to Vance Street Captial in 2017, briefly renaming the firm Fermatex Vascular Technoligeis. In 2018, the firm was aquired by Spectrum Plastics Group, a plastics company focusing on PVC tubing and thermoplastic tubing extrusion, and retained the Adam Spence name. Founded in 1960 by A. Adam Sanford to extrude specialty products from advanced engineering thermoplastics, Adam Spence became a comprehensive device manufacturer, producing both custom and proprietary medical devices, with R&D and manufacturing facilities located in Wall, New Jersey. With product distrbuted by firms like Guidant, Adam Spence was ISO 9001 certified and FDA registered, offering a wide array of in-house fabrication capabilities for medical extrusions, braid reinforced tubing and catheter sub-assemblies. The company is now focused on offering a powerful combination of competencies in precision extrusion, polymer science, and catheter assembly technologies to produce custom solutions for vascular access, visualization and medical device components delivery systems. Adam Spence is the leading manufacturer of high pressure braided tubing (HPBT) for balloon infaltion, contrast injectiuon and vacuum procedures.
