Sustainable Catheter Case-Study with Damian Carr

So I definitely have my own version of an ideal, but if we were to talk about something that a company could start up today, So I wanted to make it realistic, grounded, and not too ethereal.

So I will share some slides again and be able to walk through how companies could do it relatively easily.

There would be some investments.

There would absolutely be development time.

If you don't want to engage in that development time, you are in the very wrong industry.

So this is... a couple of different examples and routes of how you would build an automated trial layer version of catheter device that we just spoke about.

So the very first thing is rather than do these one at a time, let's make a kilometer of them, or let's make one, two kilometers, 500 meters, whatever it may be, depending on what you're actually looking for.

So first you get a spool.

It could be polymer or it can be silver plated copper.

I don't know what would be the most sustainable here.

So what I'm going to do is the process and the design, and you can chime in on what the materials would be that would be more sustainable.

So ideally, you want something that can be taken out the other side and recycled, created back into your spool.

And your spool is essentially like a roll of thread or a roll of rope.

It is just continuous length of it.

You could then get an extruder.

So this is a beautiful extruder from the likes of US extruders.

Shortened down, there's a little bit more to this machine than what you see in front of you.

You place this into the back and then as it comes out the other end, you would end up getting a layer of plastic.

One of my favorite materials in the world is ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.

I see this as the foundation of a lot of the future PFAS alternative materials.

So even the likes of Zeus PFX is based on a polyethylene-based.

Masterflex are producing the thinnest wall ultramolecular high-weight polyethylene that I've seen on the market.

DSM are working on these technologies.

This is an absolute super material with one little catch like they always tend to have.

But you would then place this back onto a spool.