Holliston Company Manufactures Synthetic Windpipes

A medical manufacturing facility in Holliston created the synthetic windpipe that was used the in the world's second successful synthetic trachea transplantation.

, a Holliston company, created a synthetic "tissue-engineered" windpipe that was inserted into a cancer patient in Stockholm, Sweden earlier this month, according to a press release.

Christopher Lyles, a 30 year-old United States citizen, was the recipient of the trachea, and is making good recovery, according to the release. He was suffering from late-stage tracheal cancer prior to the surgery. 

The company moved to Holliston in 1996 from South Natick, where it has manufactured medical supplies and synthetic tissue. 

President David Green says he is hoping to make synthetic traceas more widely used by offering replacements in the U.S., while expanding manufacturing to other parts of the body.

"We are looking to move on to the heart and lungs in the future," Green said.