The Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies for outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technologcal innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Secant Medical Inc., Perkasie, Pa., won the 2012 North American Award for Enabling Technology for its cutting-edge biomedical textiles, widely used by medical device manufacturers for implantable technology. Secant Medical’s customized approach combines variability in structure, delivery method, performance, physical composition, resorbability and other features to make biomedical textiles that can provide short-term tissue support post surgery, fabric components of medical devices or medication delivery systems that are safe and effective.