SUTURE PLUS - Development Project resulting in a pre-production prototype to produce very high strength absorbable yarns for use in advanced medical sutures, with potential for spin off uses in other medical and non-medical applications.

SUTURE PLUS - 开发项目产生了一个预生产原型，用于生产用于先进医用缝合线的高强度可吸收纱线，并有可能在其他医疗和非医疗应用中派生使用。

• 批准号: 720078
• 金额: $ 25.23万
• 依托单位: FIBRE EXTRUSION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720078
• 关键词: SUTURE; PLUS; Development; Project; resulting

International Healthcare customers using FET equipment have made us aware of a clearbusiness opportunity to open up the fast growing world market for absorbable surgicalsutures. They tell us that the market wants products that increase quality of life for an ageingpopulation and speak of their need for yarns with much higher tenacity, to make sutures whichoffer higher holding strength and are less invasive to the body in use, giving opportunities toreplace other conventional closure materials and / or use the higher performance in finer, lowdiameter sutures for new applications.The outcome of a recent Feasibility Study has shown that we can make absorbable suturematerials with physical properties 30 - 50 % over present levels and allows us to establish abasis for further development work towards commercialisation We now have the necessarydata to design a further programme of work at a cost of £440,000 with the aim of defining,specifying and building a pre-production prototype of a technologically innovative process.We have in-house, or can obtain, access to the necessary expertise to succeed in such aproject, but need financial assistance to avoid cash flow limitations and complete the workwithin a 2 year timeframe.The developed know-how and the prototype will allow us to demonstrate our capability toachieve performance leaps to our customers to help them to differentiate their product rangesand for FET to achieve sales by providing technology and custom built equipment. Asuccessful project outcome, pursued by further development work to commercialise for sutureapplications, could realise some £5.1mn new income to FET in the period 2015 to 2018 in theform of equipment sales and process licensing. We see additional potential benefits from spinoff uses for the technology in non - medical areas and as an experimental tool for small scaleevaluation of difficult-to-process / expensive raw materials.

使用FET设备的国际医疗保健客户使我们意识到了一个明确的商业机会，即打开快速增长的可吸收外科缝线全球市场。他们告诉我们，市场需要能够提高老龄人口生活质量的产品，并谈到他们需要具有更高韧性的纱线，以制造具有更高抓持强度且在使用中对身体侵入性更小的缝线，从而有机会替代其他传统闭合材料和/或在更精细，最近的可行性研究结果表明，我们可以使可吸收缝线材料的物理性能达到30 - 50%，我们现在有必要的数据来设计一个进一步的工作方案，费用为44万英镑，目的是定义，指定和建立一个技术创新过程的预生产原型。我们有内部的，或可以获得，获得必要的专业知识，以成功地在这样的项目，但需要经济援助，以避免现金流限制，并在2年内完成工作。发达国家知道-如何和原型将使我们能够证明我们的能力，以实现性能飞跃，我们的客户，以帮助他们区分他们的产品范围和FET实现销售提供技术和定制设备。成功的项目成果，通过进一步的开发工作来实现缝线应用的商业化，可以在2015年至2018年期间以设备销售和工艺许可的形式为FET实现约510万英镑的新收入。我们看到了该技术在非医疗领域的附带用途以及作为难以处理/昂贵原材料的小规模评估的实验工具的额外潜在好处。