Gastroenterology

Advancing Devices & Delivery Systems That Power Innovation in Digestive Care

Streamline the design and development of critical textile- and polymer-based solutions that enable patient care, from low-pressure medical balloons, catheter sheaths, and coatings or coverings to stents, resorbable sheets, and hemostatic mesh.

Turn Your Breakthrough into Reality

From material selection to commercialization, Solesis is your co-pilot in turning breakthroughs into reality. With the capabilities to shape both predicate and novel materials that interact with the body, Solesis’ textile and polymer engineers can translate your unique requirements into custom gastroenterology solutions, medical devices, and delivery systems used in these applications and beyond:

  • Stenting
  • Soft tissue repair
  • Tumor or gallstone removal
  • Organ separation or removal
  • Fluid transfer
  • Drainage
  • Containment

Elevating Your Innovations with Next-generation Thinking

Solesis understands that your needs aren’t the same as everyone else’s. Tap into our unified textile and polymer platforms to develop medical device or delivery system components to your specifications, from low-pressure balloons and thin films to textile scaffolds, stents, and resorbable meshes.

Explore Solutions:

  • Low-pressure medical balloons
  • Catheter sheaths
  • Coatings or coverings
  • Thin films
  • Resorbable meshes and sheets
  • Hemostatic mesh
  • Scaffold materials
  • Dressings
  • GI stents
  • Capsule technologies (e.g., GI tract imaging, drug delivery)
  • Sleeves (e.g., barrier, irrigation)
  • Colostomy and urostomy bags
  • Organ retrieval and storage bags
  • Surgical equipment covers
  • Probe covers
  • Fluid transfer bags
  • Membranes
  • Protective sheaths (e.g., flexible/wearable electronics)
  • Wound care systems
  • Tissue scaffolds
  • Sutures

Uncovering Device and Delivery Solutions with Advanced Biomaterial Innovations

By leveraging applied biomaterials expertise from Solesis, you can design any of the following tunable benefits into your next gastroenterology device or delivery system:

  • 3D dimensionality
  • Absorption
  • Actuation
  • Biocompatibility
  • Cell attachment
  • Chemical resistance
  • Collapsibility
  • Compactibility
  • Conformability
  • Covering/protection (e.g., cushioning)
  • Durability
  • Fixation
  • Flexibility and flex-fatigue resistance
  • Gas barrier properties
  • High surface area
  • Hydrolytic stability
  • Low creep
  • Low profile
  • Low temperature resistance
  • Lubricity/coefficient of friction (CoF)
  • Mechanical properties
  • Permeability
  • Porosity
  • Protection
  • Resilience
  • Reinforcement
  • Sealing
  • Seamlessness
  • Smaller profiles
  • Softness
  • Stabilization
  • Strength
  • Stretchability
  • Suitability in manufacturing (e.g., printing, assembly, roll-to-roll processing)
  • Suturability
  • Support
  • Surface finish
  • Thickness
  • Uniformity
  • Weldability

Innovation in Minimally Invasive Procedures is Accelerating - and Solesis Moves with You.

Our engineers collaborate closely with your team to develop solutions with tunable, high-performance properties, including flexibility, durability, and biocompatibility. We help you advance from idea to impact quickly so you can reach more patients faster.

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Ignite Your Bold New Idea with Us

Advance your next gastroenterology device and delivery system with the textiles and polymers you need so you can meet patient needs more quickly – starting today.