Coated Vicryl
Polyglactin 910 braided absorbable — the global reference suture, gauges 10-0 to 5
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Ethicon Sutures Supplier in Egypt
Vicryl, Monocryl, PDS II, Prolene, Ethilon and the complete wound-closure range
The lane
Ethicon, delivered to Cairo.
NOVOSIC ships the Ethicon wound-closure portfolio to Egypt — Coated Vicryl, Vicryl Rapide, Monocryl, PDS II, Prolene, Ethilon, and Mersilene — from our UAE base to importers and hospital groups buying for Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, and Mansoura.
Egypt's surgical throughput is enormous, and theatre protocols at the university hospitals are written around specific Ethicon codes. Send us the catalogue references exactly as they appear on your requisition — gauge, needle curvature, box quantity — and we return a line-priced offer ready to consolidate with the rest of your order.
Shipping to Egypt
How this lane runs.
Cairo-destined suture orders ship to Ain Sokhna, five to eight days from Jebel Ali on the Red Sea side of Suez, then truck the short leg to the capital; Alexandria or El Dekheila suit Delta-region buyers but add the canal transit, stretching the voyage to roughly ten to fourteen days. When a theatre is short on a specific code, the four-hour flight into Cairo International puts an air shipment on the ground the same day, with multiple Dubai–Cairo rotations daily giving genuine routing flexibility.
- Sea / surface
- Ain Sokhna (Red Sea); Alexandria and El Dekheila (Mediterranean) — typically 5–8 days
- Air
- Cairo International Airport (CAI) — 4 hours (multiple daily Dubai–Cairo rotations)
- Typical Incoterms on this lane
- CIF Ain Sokhna · CIF Alexandria · DAP Cairo · FOB Jebel Ali
- Regulatory context
- Medical devices in Egypt are registered with the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA), with the registration normally held by the local importer; much public-sector purchasing runs through the Unified Procurement Authority (UPA). NOVOSIC provides the manufacturer documentation — IFUs, CE certificates, batch records — that EDA registration holders rely on.
What Egypt orders
Demand on the Egypt Ethicon suture lane.
Obstetrics drives the headline volume in Egypt: maternity units at Kasr Al Ainy, Ain Shams, and the Mansoura university complex consume Coated Vicryl 1 and 2-0 on heavy taper needles for caesarean closure at a rate few markets match, with Vicryl Rapide alongside for perineal repair. The private hospitals expanding through New Cairo and Sheikh Zayed pull Monocryl 3-0 and 4-0 for cosmetic-grade skin closure, while Prolene 6-0 through 8-0 supplies the cardiothoracic programmes and PDS II covers fascial closure across the general lists. Orders here tend to be deep rather than broad — fewer codes, larger quantities per code.
Featured lines
Ethicon Sutures available for Egypt.
Every line below is quoted to your exact catalogue codes and consolidated with anything else you buy from us into one shipment.
Vicryl Rapide
Accelerated-absorption Vicryl for episiotomy, paediatric, and mucosal closure
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Poliglecaprone 25 monofilament absorbable — low drag, subcuticular closure
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Polydioxanone long-term absorbable monofilament, ~6-month absorption
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Polypropylene permanent monofilament — cardiovascular and vascular standard
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Nylon non-absorbable monofilament for skin closure
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Braided polyester non-absorbable for cardiac and orthopaedic fixation
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Natural braided silk for ligation and securing drains
Request Export QuoteDon't see the specific Ethicon code you need? We supply the complete range — send us the catalogue number with your destination and required Incoterm.
Why NOVOSIC for Egypt
One desk for the whole order.
Sokhna-first routing
Five to eight days Jebel Ali to Ain Sokhna without a Suez transit, then a short road leg to Cairo — the quickest deep-sea path into Egypt's biggest buying centre.
Volumes matched to Egyptian scale
From carton-level top-ups for a single private clinic in Giza to full containers structured for UPA-driven public-sector demand, quoted line by line against your codes.
Paperwork aligned to EDA holders
IFUs, CE certificates, and batch records assembled per consignment, so the importer of record can satisfy EDA file requirements without chasing the manufacturer.
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Available for shipping worldwide
The Ethicon Sutures range ships from the UAE to Egypt and to destinations across Africa, the Middle East, CIS, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Incoterms supported: EXW, FOB, CIF, CFR, DDP, DAP.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you need. We'll respond within 24 hours.
Brand, product, quantity, destination — we'll come back with a competitive export quote from our Dubai desk.