Post Cure: Natural mineral fiber biocomposite via AFP enhances implant integration
Arctic Biomaterials produces high-quality composite biomaterials incorporating a natural mineral fiber that is useful in medical and healthcare-related fields.
Source | Arctic Biomaterials
What if composite materials could be bioresorbable and biocompatible?
Arctic Biomaterials, also known as ABM Composite (Tampere, Finland), offers ultra-strong X3 biomaterials that when processed via automated fiber placement (AFP), have been reported to achieve more than 16,000 MPa flexural modulus and over 600 MPa in flexural strength, manifold to biocomposite PLGA + TCP and PDLLA alternatives.
Based on bioabsorbable polymers reinforced by the company’s natural mineral fibers, the bio-integrative and bioactive innovation provides a strong and osteoconductive ingredient to combine with bioresorbable polymers and other biomaterials.
While particularly well suited to medical devices, as demonstrated by this bioabsorbable bone fixation implant, the company notes the material is also applied in load-bearing components.
Arctic Biomaterials offers Evolvecomp X3 fiber pellet composites, as well as X3 continuous fiber composites. Ultimately, this provides Arctic Biomaterials’ customers a possibility to produce bioresorbable medical implants with high performance while also maintaining a balanced pH environment, which promotes bone formation and growth.
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