Polygon to display composite tubing at MD&M West

Tubing, bearings and cylinders producer Polygon will be exhibiting its PolyMed composite tubing at Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West in February.

The tubing can be used for medical applications such as the placement on electro-surgical devices (both monopolar and bipolar), surgical ablation tools, suction irrigation or trocar cannula, endoscopic or laparoscopic instruments and robotic surgery technologies. 

It is invisible to X-ray, thermally insulating, and non-conductive. Rigid or flexible according to client needs, PolyMed acts 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 sterilised.

The components are tailored for each customer project. Polygon Company dedicates composite experts to work closely with customer engineers to develop an exceptional, customised medical component. Architectures include braided, circumferentially wound, and unidirectional. The material can also be produced in multi-lumen shapes as one piece. 

Ted Wallace, director of sales and marketing at Polygon, said: “Polygon works closely with medical device design engineers. Our engineering-team provides their knowledge and experience in composite science to assist customers in selecting the best manufacturing process, architecture, formulation and finishing to produce the ideal application for their project.”

MD&M West takes place from 11-13 February 2020 at Anaheim Convention Center, California.