Secant Medical and Parent Unite Under One Brand

Secant Medical LLC and its parent company Prodesco Inc. will merge under one banner as Secant Medical Inc. as of the beginning of September. The name change is intended to support the company’s continued business growth in the medical device industry, company officials said. 

“Our company will maintain the same values and collaborative engineering approach while further expanding our business to better serve the needs our clients,” said Erik Nadeau, president. “The name change signifies our commitment to being an innovator in enabling technology platforms and our focus on adapting to the ever changing needs of the medical device industry.”

Secant Medical LLC was formed as a business unit of Prodesco in 2002, and has quickly become the major growth driver for the business. Prodesco will remain a brand of Secant Medical Inc.

Secant Medical is based in Perkasie, Pa., and produces biomedical textile structures for medical devices. Using polymeric, metallic and resorbable biomaterials, the company develops implantable textile structure technologies for orthopedic, cardiovascular, tissue-engineered, neurovascular and general surgery devices. Secant Medical is a business unit of Fenner plc, a reinforced polymer engineering company based in Yorkshire, England.