Novel Suture Prototype - Project to develop and deliver an innovative late stage prototype process to produce very high strength absorbable coated materials, for use in advanced medical sutures, with potential spin off uses in other medical and non-medica

使用FET设备的国际客户告诉我们，他们正在寻求合成可吸收缝合线的产品和工艺的改进。我们现在看到了解决他们的担忧的机会，并潜在地为FET及其客户带来互惠互利。在外科缝合线的生产中使用的传统纺织工艺缓慢、劳力和能源密集，并且具有其他缺点，当缝合线由可吸收聚合物制成时，这些缺点是出了名的昂贵和难以操作。FET最近进行的一项POC项目探索了一种新的方法来制造由复丝原丝制成的新型合成可吸收缝合线，旨在简化制造过程，降低成本和过程中降解的风险。POC的结果使我们能够为进一步的商业化开发工作奠定基础。我们现在有了设计这个项目所需的数据开发的技术诀窍和原型将使我们能够向我们的客户展示我们实现性能飞跃的能力，帮助他们区分他们的产品范围，并通过提供技术和定制设备实现FET的销售。我们看到了将该技术用于非医疗领域的额外潜在好处，并将其作为小规模评估难以加工/昂贵的法律材料的实验工具。

International customers using FET equipment tell us that they are seeking improvements inproduct and process for synthetic absorbable sutures. We now see an opportunity to addresstheir concerns and to potentially deliver mutual benefits to both FET and its customers.The traditional textile processes used in the production of surgical sutures are slow, labourand energy intensive and have other disadvantages which are compounded when the suture ismade from absorbable polymers, which are notoriously expensive and difficult to handle.A recent POC project carried out by FET explored ideas for a novel method of manufacture ofnew synthetic absorbable sutures made from multifilament precursor yarns designed tosimplify the manufacturing process, reducing costs and the risks of in-process degradation.The outcome of the POC allows us to establish a basis for further development work towardscommercialization.We now have the necessary data to design this project, with the aim of defining, specifyingand building a pre-production prototype of a technologically innovative process.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.We see additional potential benefits from spin off uses for the technology in non - medicalareas and as an experimental tool for small scale evaluation of difficult-to-process / expensiveraw materials.