Specialty Adhesives Dispensing Technologies
Formulated Epoxies Assembly Tooling
Contract Engineering Engineered Extrusions
Inventor's Path to ProductionTM
UV Adhesive and Epoxy Specialists
COG Engineering, Inc. provides industrial and medical grade advanced formulated polymers including UV adhesives and coatings, lamination adhesives, potting compounds, thermal cure and two components, conductive and insulating, and EMI shielding materials.
Selection and process design are essential to your success. COG Engineering goes beyond the catalog and delivers the solution. Browse our Products pages to learn more or send us a description of your application.
Our Process
Design Evaluation for Manufacturability
- Ease of Assembly
- Technology Options
- Recommended Improvements
Material Assessment
- Substrate Characterization (Surface Energy, UV Transmission etc.)
- Adhesive Candidates Selection
- Adhesion Test
Samples and Training
- Process Parameters
- Critical Techniques Review
- Safety Review
Engineered Catheter Extrusions and Design
Sandy Utah
Catheter designers require precision, repeatability, and fast results. Our expertise in tool design and process development allows us to provide any custom profile extrusion in the shortest time possible. By utilizing in-house design and CNC machining capabilities, we offer delivery of custom extrusions in as little as 3 days, including tapered tubing!
Design and Manufacturing
- Multi-lumens up to 10 lumens
- Round Lumens
- Solid Rod
- Balloon Tubing
- Eccentric shaped lumens
- Single Lumen STOCK diameters up to 0.4"
- Thin walls down to 0.0005" (polymer dependant)
- Braided and coiled
- Bumped Tubing
Materials Processed
- TPE's
- Polyurethanes
- Nylons
- Pebax
- Hytrel and engineered resins
- Tempreature ranges up to 500F
Secondary Operations and Catheter Manufacturing
- Tipping, Flaring, Skiving
- Over-molding
- Fusing
- Welding
- Balloon Bonding
- Hydrophilic Coatings
- Lubricious liners
- Pad Printing
Catheter Manufacturing Tooling
Medical Device Assembly requires precision, repeatability, and expandability. COG Engineering manufacturers and represents best in class equipment designed and refined to satisfy the high standards of the medical device industry. Visit our Tooling pages to learn more about these products.
- Modular UV Enclosures
- Custom assembly stages and nests
- Catheter balloon bonding
- Luer Bonding
- Needle Hub Bonding
- Universal Spot Cure Enclosures
Thermal Forming Equipment
- 1-4 catheter stations
- Tip Forming
- Extrusion Fusing
- Flaring and Necking
Contract Engineering for Manufacturability
With over 15 years of experience designing, manufacturing, and optimizing medical devices, retail electronics, defense technologies and sporting goods, COG can help you at any stage of development or production.
Engineering Stages
- Product Design
- Solid Modeling
- Material Selection
- Design Refinement
- Process Development
- Training
- Ramp Up
- Outsource
- Vendor Management
History & Leadership
Diversity yields versatility. With our roots in the medical device industry and a myriad of experiences developing, testing, refining and manufacturing catheters, laparoscopes, ophthalmic diagnostic equipment, surgical instruments and more, we embraced our entrepreneurial spirit and expanded our core competencies. Today you will find a supplier and engineering partner that has provided solutions to start ups and large corporations in California, Arizona, Mexico, Malaysia and Costa Rica. Capitalizing on our exposure to a broad spectrum of industries and applications we are guided by the extensive experience of Gregg Hallam, our manufacturers, and our technical partners. COG Engineering, Inc. continues to expand its knowledge of applications and its offerings of materials and services.
Message from COG Engineering
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.” - James A. Michener
I founded and operate COG Engineering based on this principle. Together, we will Craft new ideas and products, Optimize our methods, and Grow our businesses.
Please share your thoughts and experiences with me.
Gregg Hallam, President and Founder COG Engineering, Inc.
Gregg@cogEngineering.com
Customer Testimonials
Mike Daffara, Qualcomm (Defense Technologies Group)
"I would like to thank you for all your support. You have helped in many ways and your expertise will help us succeed on this project. Everyone on the team appreciates all of your efforts. Your final report is great. I can see you put a lot of time and thought into the report. I will send it out to the entire team. I couldn't have done it without your help."
Wayne Noda, Vice President Minos Medical
"Thanks again for all your help. After all these years in the industry I have had the opportunity to build great, long lasting relationships that have proven to save my butt over and over. I really appreciate the help. Let me know if I can ever return the favor."
