Archive for the ‘China’ Category
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 ...
Posted in China, Suppliers, medtechinsider | 1 Comment »
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, ...
Posted in China, medtechinsider | 1 Comment »
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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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
On the wire: Stryker Corporation (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA), is establishing itself in China for the first time with the creation of a manufacturing plant in Suzhou, 80 miles west of Shanghai, writes Alex Nixon, business reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette.
"We certainly are expanding our manufacturing footprint and our selling operations ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
On the wire: China has ambitious plans to make basic medical services more affordable and available to its 1.3 billion people. In addition to building a medical clinic in every village and ensuring every county has at least one hospital by 2011, the State government plans to subsidise insurance premiums ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Experts from testing laboratories, medical device manufacturers and standardisation organisations and authorities met in Shanghai on 24–25 February 2009 to discuss how to align their understanding of international standards for medical electrical equipment safety.
The conference focused on GB 9706.1-2007/IEC 60601-1. GB 9706.1-2007 is equivalent to the 2nd edition of the ...
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