Secant Medical Goes After Untapped Market

Posted: October 19, 2010

Building a business around your clients can be risky, but it can also be rewarding and lead to huge success. Yesterday I took a trip to Secant Medical (Perkasie, PA), where I learned a bit more about the way one company has used this strategy to become what Karen West, vice president of Secant’s Advanced Technology and Materials Group, calls a credible leader in the industry of biomedical textiles. According to West, biomedical textiles are an untapped market, and not only does Secant strive to be at the forefront of innovation in this segment, but it also aims to be a leader in education. The company has 16 engineers on staff who specialize in biomedical, textiles, mechanical, chemical, and industrial areas.

 
The majority of Secant Medical’s products are Class II and III. Each product is engineered to meet a client’s specifications, so no product is the same. Engineers work very closely with its customers to create products that have a global reach. What’s unique about the end result is that these biomedical textiles are used as an alternative to metal. For example, engineers worked on a motion preservation technology for dynamic spine stabilization, and the textile structure can withstand the same load as a metal. And just as important is the fact that such technologies can be inserted using minimally invasive techniques.
 
Orthopaedics comprises about 25% of Secant’s business development, and there are a lot of exciting things happening in orthobiologics in particular, says Jeff Koslosky, director of technology and product development in Secant’s Advanced Technology and Materials Group. To read more about what Jeff has to say about biomedical textiles in orthopaedics, check out the article that he wrote for OrthoTec’s Spring issue. 

-Maria Fontanazza

 

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