Archive for the ‘China’ Category
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between TU Delft in the Netherlands and the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (SIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was recently renewed for five years. Scientists from both universities will collaboratively pursue research on the development of composite materials for biodegradable and bioactive orthopaedic devices, a ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2012
China’s domestic medical and pharmaceutical industries are looking very attractive to investors these days. Introducing the 2012 China-International Supreme Forum of Medical Industry Investment and Financing on 17 February, financial expert Wang Guochang noted that more than 100 healthcare entities attracted a collective investment amount of RMB 25 billion in ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Mr. Yin Li officially took over as the new chief of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) on 20 February 2012, replacing Mr. Shao Ming who had reached retirement age. Shao Ming's replacement had been a source of speculation since late 2011.
The position was not especially sought after by deputy directors ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
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The landscape of medical manufacturing in China today looks an awful lot like the automotive sector did 15 to 20 years ago, says Karl Stillman, Regional Sales Director, Asia, for injection moulder and contract manufacturer Rosti. Back then, the automobile industry had not yet ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
China passed its first patent law way back in . . . 1984! Clearly, protection of intellectual property does not have a long tradition in China, but like so many things in this amazing land, IP policy has evolved in dramatic fashion over a very short period of time. A ...
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Despite the China fatigue that has been going around, I feel compelled to direct your attention to a feature in the 19 January edition of the Financial Times (registration required), which discusses German industry's struggle to stay ahead of China.
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Although the United States will continue to lead the world in medical technology innovation, it will begin to lose ground to other countries during the next decade, as will Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Israel and Japan, according to a report published by the PwC Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device and Life ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
US-based Spectralytics (Dassel, Minnesota) and Preco Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) have joined forces with Preco-Miwa, based in Tianjin, China, to ramp up contract manufacturing of cardiovascular stents and other medical devices through their subsidiaries in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), also in Tianjin.
This initiative is designed to accelerate delivery of products to Asian ...
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
Representatives of Eucomed, the pan-European trade association, met with the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) last week. Discussions centered on the challenges and opportunities that European medical technology companies currently face in China, such as the issue of intellectual property rights. The EUCCC also outlined its plans ...
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Patient monitoring equipment made in China is recording healthy growth in eastern Europe thanks, in part, to the global recession, according to a new report published by InMedica. Worth an estimated €52.4 million in 2009, the east European market for patient monitoring devices contracted sharply as the recession took hold, ...
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
In its latest report on China, market research company InMedica reminds us that in April 2009, the Chinese government announced the guidelines for healthcare reform, which is aimed at providing universal healthcare services to the country’s 1.3 billion population. China is to invest 850 billion RMB ($124 billion) on healthcare ...
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Contract manufacturer of medical diagnostic instruments BIT Group has begun construction of a new CNC manufacturing facility in Kunshan, China. The initiative will result in improved cost efficiencies and accelerated speed-to-market of complex medical diagnostic instruments, according to the company headquartered in Schwalbach, Germany. The facility will specialise in the ...
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