Custom designed biomedical textiles and medical textiles to help solve your medical device manufacturing challenges

Secant Medical designs and develops biomedical textiles with innovation and precision, ensuring your medical device requirements are met. A variety of polymeric and metallic biomaterials are utilized to provide our partners with the most high performing and high quality biomedical textiles.

Fabric engineering for versatile biomedical textiles

One of the factors that make Secant Medical unique is our ability to produce high performing, flexible biomedical textiles out of a diverse range of materials. Polyethylenes, polylactides, polyglycolides, polyarylretherketones, and even metals like stainless steel, nitinol, platinum, and titanium each have distinct mechanical properties that are leveraged to develop biomedical textiles that are extremely versatile.

Our biomedical textiles and medical textiles can closely replicate nearly any desired geometry in terms of shape, behavior, and performance. They match existing structures but provide the advantage of being minimally invasive and more flexible.

Biomedical textiles for unprecedented options

As many engineers know, human body repair and tissue regeneration can be facilitated with great benefits through the use of biomedical textiles. The textile structures can be delivered with less trauma to the patient. In addition, custom implantable fabrics can be designed to be compressed into a small catheter and then deployed during a procedure, or it can be imparted with shape memory so that once deployed it can return to its predetermined state to perform a specific function.

Traditional examples of biomedical textiles being used in medical devices include braided sutures, knitted cuffs on heart valves, and woven vascular prostheses. Advanced processing techniques enable Secant Medical to develop biomedical textiles that can be engineered for a specific purpose, such as providing a scaffold for cellular in-growth or preventing tissue from growing into or through the fabric material.

Medical textiles developed by Secant Medical can also undergo shape transformation, enabling the material to be fitted, expanded, or actuated once placed inside a structure. This provides an advantage to surgeons with limited space in which to operate in the body.

Applications of our biomedical textiles include:

• Cardiology

• Orthopedics

• Tissue Regeneration

• General Surgery