A specialized area, the science of biomedical textiles is the core of our expertise. No other company can bring to your team the background Secant Medical™ offers: unparalleled experience in implantable fabrics for biomedical applications and an engineering-based culture that exceeds customers' requirements.
Our Toolbox of Medical Textile & Fabric Options
A combination of material and process advancements is expanding the range of biomedical textile and fabric options. Through our engineering and technician team, Secant Medical customers have access to an arsenal of readily deployable design and engineering techniques and technologies that can be combined to produce product features and benefits never before available.
Biocompatible Textile Forming Technologies:
- Weaving: The interlacing of yarns and/or wires over and under each other, oriented at 90-degree angles, to create a stable textile structure – offering the most design flexibility of all forming techniques. Among other uses, weaving enables seamless tubes to be formed that can be tapered along the length to produce near net-shape geometries.
- Knitting: A construction made by interlocking a series of loops of one or more yarns. Typically, knitted biomedical fabrics are used for soft tissue support and applications where conformability and controlled elongation and pore size are essential.
- Braiding: The intertwining of three or more yarns to make a fabric, by interfacing the yarns diagonally to the production axis of the material. Unrivalled variability of process parameters yields differing physical and mechanical properties, such as porosity, flexibility and radial strength.
- Non-wovens: Unique textile structures that are not formed from yarns but from fibers or filaments only. Non-woven structures have excellent surface area and permeability characteristics and are useful for tissue engineering and wound care.
Visit our Glossary to learn more about the textile engineering options available to our customers.