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Fiber Engineering
Situation:
One of the country's largest medical device manufacturers developed a unique bioabsorbable fiber that had a lot of potential for a variety of tissue engineering applications. The problem was that the fiber was produced one filament at a time. Each filament was so delicate that the company not find a weaver or knitter who could form it into the fabric structures they needed.
After approaching one of Italy's top textile machinery designers for help, the Italian designer referred the company to Concordia. Within two months Concordia had designed and built a machine that turned the individual filaments into a yarn suitable for knitting. Concordia then redesigned and rebuilt a knitting machine to optimize the production of the fabrics required.
