Secant Medical™ to Display Range of Biomedical Textile Services at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Minneapolis Exhibition
Perkasie, Penna. – Sept. 15, 2009 – Secant Medical™, leaders in the design, development, and custom manufacture of biomedical textile structures, will exhibit at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Minneapolis, October 21st and 22nd, at the Minneapolis Convention Center (booth # 948).
Secant Medical collaborates with medical device clients to custom manufacture biomedical textiles with unique properties that enhance the performance and effectiveness of a range of medical devices, while helping to speed device time-to-market. Implantable textile structures are used in a variety of medical device applications, including endovascular stent-grafts, vascular filtration, motion preservation orthopedic devices, spinal implants, incontinence slings, soft tissue repair, advanced wound management, herniation, and other medical treatments. The company counts many of the world's leading medical device companies among its customer base.
At the MD&M Minneapolis trade show, Secant Medical will display a variety of complex biomedical textile structures that address a host of design and engineering considerations, among them: 2-D, 3-D, and multi-layer geometries; controlled porosity and permeability; hybrid material combinations; tubular and multi-lumen structures; and other engineering and design requirements.
The company's operations have ISO 13485:2003 certification. Secant Medical's lean manufacturing initiatives, process validation, and risk analysis services help streamline their clients' development paths -- from initial concept, to process development, to product release.
About Secant Medical: Secant Medical™, LLC is the leader in custom-developed biomedical textile structures for medical devices, helping customers meet challenges to bring device solutions to market quickly and effectively. Using constantly evolving high-performance metallic and polymeric biomaterials, the company designs the textile structures that client innovations require in developing the next generation orthopedic, cardiovascular, tissue-engineered and neurological devices, and new general surgery resources. Secant Medical is a business unit of Prodesco, Inc., the leader in the design, development and manufacture of engineered fabric structures for the medical, industrial and aerospace industries since 1943. In 2008, Prodesco became part of Fenner PLC, a worldwide leader in reinforced polymer engineering headquartered in Yorkshire, England. For more information, contact Jeff Koslosky, at 215-257-8680, extension 159; email jeff.koslosky@secantmedical.com; or visit www.secantmedical.com.