- Horizontal Braiding - 8 to 288 carriers
- Flat Braiding - 3 to 31 carriers
- Flat to Round Braiding
- Cable Braiding - 3 to 16 carriers
- Variable Braiding - e.g. Bi/ Tri Furcation - 3 to 96 ends
- Cable Braiding
- Net shaping of Nitinol Braids
Integer’s suture offering extends beyond standard round braided sutures (USP 2 down to USP 7-0).Custom sutures are developed in response to customer’s design inputs, incorporating seamless flat-to-round transitions, smooth tapers, loops and bifurcations, and porous architecture.
Suture clinical performance is tailored using appropriate material grade and textile design, leveraging Integer’s Textile Design Engineering expertise. Sutures are produced using implantable grade fibres of UHMWPE (e.g. Dyneema Purity), polyester (PET) and polypropylene (PP), as well as nitinol and resorbable polymers (e.g. PLGA).
High Strength Tapes, Bands, Tethers & Cables
Integer develops ultra-high strength textile implants, to meet the particular requirements of individual clinical applications. For example, densely woven and braided UHMWPE and nitinol constructs offer the tensile strength and stiffness required, whilst ensuring the supple smooth drapability required of an actuation cable, tether, cerclage tape, or load-bearing tissue repair implant.For device actuation polymeric cables, can be designed to offer high-strength per relative size along with <1% elongation, making them a preferable alternative in some cases to metal actuation cables and wires.