Polygon Composites Technology, which makes composite tubing, bearings, and cylinders, plans to showcase its PolyMed composite tubing for surgical applications at the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) show, taking place in Minneapolis, USA, from 23–24 October 2019.
According to the company, its composite tubing is suitable for use in a range of medical applications, including electro-surgical devices (both monopolar and bipolar), surgical ablation tools, suction irrigation or trocar cannula, endoscopic/laparoscopic instruments and robotic surgery technologies. PolyMed says that the material is lightweight, strong, and invisible to X-ray, thermally insulating, and non-conductive, and can act as a drop-in replacement for stainless steel tubing in a variety of endoscopic and laparoscopic instrumentation applications. PolyMed is ISO-10993 compliant and can be sterilized.
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