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The Textile
Industry and Biotech Join Forces To
Produce a Revolutionary New Bandage
How can
bamboo and glass dramatically reduce
severe blood loss? Entegrion, a biotechnology
company in North Carolina's Research
Triangle Park, has revolutionized
wound care by weavlng together bamboo
and glass fibers into its Stasilon-FR
bandage. And used the textile expertise
of Carolina Narrow Fabric Company
of Wlnston- Salem ... continue |
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Battle tested:
Textile firms use expertise to create
bio breakthrough
Two
Triad textile firms that have survived
their industry's off-shoring shakeout
are turning their hard-won expertise
in a traditional craft into high-tech
advances in the arena of battlefield
injuries and traumatic wound care.
National
Spinning Co. of Glen Raven and Carolina
Narrow Fabric of Winston-Salem are
working with Entegrion, a Research
Triangle Park-based firm, on a new
kind of bandage that can significantly
reduce the ... continue |
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Not Your
Run-Of-The-Mill Bandage
W hen life sciences company Entegrion
was asked by the Office of Naval Research
(ONR), Arlington, Va., to develop
an affordable bandage that would quickly
stop bleeding in combat-inflicted
wounds, the Research Triangle Park,
N.C.-based start-up turned to local
textile manufacturers to help it devise
a solution ... That filament is added
at the weaving stage by Carolina Narrow
Fabric Co. (CNF), a specialty narrow
fabrics weaver located about 35 miles
further down I-40 in Winston-Salem,
N.C. As Entegrion’s Fischer
began to work with CNF, he found that
yarn properties are but one contributor
to the bandage’s function ...
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New bandage
being called "miracle"
NORTH CAROLINA -- The FDA just approved
a new bandage made in North Carolina
that some are calling a miracle.
The Stasilon bandage is made with
specially woven glass fibers and bamboo
to work with the body to stop bleeding
in half the time of regular bandages.
Carolina Narrow Fabric of Winston-Salem
weaves the Stasilon. Last week the
FDA approved it for use in operating
rooms and over the counter. Entegrion
hopes to have the bandage available
in stores soon ... continue |
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The Place
to Be
There's a simple litmus test for the
viability of Piedmont Triad Research
Park as a life-sciences hub, according
to analysts and economists.
The park will
have arrived when it attracts life-sciences
companies, particularly in biotechnology
and nanotechnology, that could be
based anywhere but choose here as
the most advantageous place to do
research and business.
Entegrion, a biomedical group based
in Research Triangle Park, has formed
a partnership with Carolina Narrow
Fabric Co. of Winston-Salem on Stasilon.
It is a product that accelerates
the clotting of blood in major external
wounds through the use of bamboo
and glass fibers in a woven fabric.
Entegrion recently gained Food and
Drug Administration clearance for
the use of Stasilon as an over-the-counter
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