Fiber & Polymer Innovations
Diverse expertise and dynamic innovation woven in
Leveraging deep and diverse polymer and biomedical textile design, development, and manufacturing expertise, Secant Group works closely with your team to determine the most appropriate component geometry based on critical product performance and biocompatibility requirements. We then custom-design and produce polymer and textile solutions with in-house advanced technologies. All to ensure a seamless fit for your groundbreaking implantable medical device.
• Weaving • Knitting • Braiding
• Biodegradable Polymers
Woven Textiles
Offering the most design flexibility of all textile-forming technologies, woven textiles deliver dimensional stability, low porosity, and strength. They are commonly used in ligament and tendon reconstruction, tissue scaffolds, soft-tissue stabilization, and vascular grafts and plugs.
Knit Textiles
Lightweight, highly conformable, and able to provide bulk, knit textiles are commonly used in abdominal wall repair, adhesion barriers, craniofacial repair, and surgical mesh. Depending on technique, knit braids enable versatile geometric structures with controlled elasticity and thickness, consistent pore size and shape, and elongation.
Braided Textiles
Providing unrivalled variability of physical and mechanical properties, braided textiles offer controlled porosity, flexibility, high radial expansion, and strength using a combination of yarns or wires from 3 to 192 ends. They are commonly used in general surgical applications such as stents and sutures. In addition, they can be used in orthopedic textile applications for tendon and ligament fixation.
Biodegradable Polymers
For decades, polymer science has been at the core of Secant Group’s innovations. The foundation of our biomaterial tissue engineering starts with the polymer resin poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS), which mimics the body’s natural tissue environment, supports cell development, and does not trigger an inflammatory immune response. Secant’s multidisciplinary team of expert researchers collaborates with leading healthcare and academic innovators to integrate our patented biomaterials, PGS and PGSU (poly(glycerol sebacate) urethane), into novel patient-centric solutions.
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