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Secant Medical has developed a 3D textile engineering technology by integrating traditional textile engineering with advanced biomaterials. While 3D printing/additive manufacturing has gained considerable attention as a novel method to create 3D biomedical forms, it does not always offer the dimensional stability, material selection and engineering properties desired. Once programmed, Secant’s 3D textile set-up can produce mass-engineered structures with a high degree of repeatability.
Secant Medical uses proprietary Regenerez® bioelastomer to enhance the biomechanical properties of 3D structures. This technology transforms a simple, synthetic textile into an elastomeric scaffold that allows the researcher a broad range of bioresorbable polymers for the structural design.
The company has begun development of an anatomical scaffold prototype based on the trachea, but notes that its additive manufacturing technology will have application in orthopaedics, as well.
Source: Secant Medical
Secant moved its headquarters in July 2015. The company relocated from Perkasie to Telford, Pennsylvania in a first stage of facilities relocations. Secant Medical will retain the Quakertown facility and a second move will take place in 2H15, after the space has been retrofitted to provide suitable building designs for customer requirements, allow for additional space to perform operations and assure orderly handling of customer product. One building in Perkasie will remain as a manufacturing site.
