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news.Active Implants has signed an exclusive agreement with Joint Replacement Instrumentation to expand distribution of its advanced polymer TriboFit hip system in the UK.
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Joint Replacement Instrumentation (JRI) will market its product, the Furlong H-AC hip stem, alongside Active Implants’s TriboFit acetabular system, the only soft bearing articulation product available. TriboFit employs a low wear, medical grade, polycarbonate-urethane Buffer. Active Implants and JRI are launching a post approval collaborative market study in the UK with orthopedic surgeons.
Under this new arrangement, Active Implants has agreed to manufacture certain components of the TriboFit hip system at the JRI facilities in Sheffield, England.
Brian Jones, managing director of JRI, said: “We believe the TriboFit soft bearing acetabular Buffer solves some known problems with rigid bearing material articulation surfaces and it may introduce important new benefits and favorably impact the longevity of a total hip replacement. This is even more important as a growing younger patient population faces the need for orthopaedic surgery.”