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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Are you wasting resources? The question is rhetorical in the eyes of Supply Chain Ready, a service that integrates lean manufacturing and logistics with expertise on design and project management of medical technology production facilities. “I would be surprised if we did not see a 30% to 60% improvement after ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Kazuo Ogino, chairman of the Japan Federation of Medical Device Associations, has asked the government to prioritise the allocation of power supplies to medical device factories that manufacture mechanical ventilators, oxygen devices, defibrillators and other products vital for human life.
Rolling blackouts, which began on Monday, 14 March, in Japan’s nine ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Miki Anzai, Associate Editor of Japan Medical Design & Manufacturing Technology writes:
The Olympus Group announced on Wednesday, 16 March, that it will donate 100 million yen (US$1.3 million) and nondestructive testing equipment and industrial videoscopes to assist victims.
Kyoto-based Omron Healthcare Co. said it would donate 125,000 consumer-use thermometers, 40,000 thermometers ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
As part of the opening ceremony of its new parylene coating facility in Galway, Ireland, Metal Improvement Company (MIC) is hosting a complimentary seminar on advanced surface technologies for the medical device industry. The session will take place at the Radisson Hotel in Galway on Thursday 24 March and will ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
On 10 February 2011, Sweden formally objected to the harmonised standard, "Medical devices – Quality management systems – Requirements for regulatory purposes" (EN ISO 13485:2003), says Eucomed.
Eucomed favours clear standards that avoid differences in interpretation and implementation of law by EU member states. Some of the technical and legal technicalities ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
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Delwyn Evans champions a repellent ideology . . . and he should be applauded for it. Principal Chemist for P2i Ltd, a provider of nano-coating technology headquartered in Abingdon, UK, Evans will be sharing his passion for liquid-repellent technology at BIOMEDevice ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
From the wire: Creganna-Tactx Medical and Boston Biomedical Associates (BBA) have announced a joint venture partnership under which Creganna-Tactx Medical customers will have dedicated access to clinical, regulatory and quality expertise and consulting services. The joint venture company will be co-located at BBA’s Massachusetts and California facilities and staffed by ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
Just in time for this year's Pharmapack trade show in Paris, BASF is adding three new products from two classes of material to its medical plastics portfolio. In the POM product line (POM: polyoxymethylene; polyacetal), the ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
After redesigning and safeguarding the financial aspects of the healthcare system, the German government can focus on bringing changes to structural processes in 2011, declares German medtech association BVMed in its monthly e-newsletter. And there is a measure of confidence that the government will do the right thing as it ...
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
Mould Technologies Group (MTG; Diessenhofen, Switzerland), which incorporates Schöttli AG, has acquired all shares in Magor Mold Inc. (San Dimas, CA, USA). MTG also owns s-mouldtech in Suzhou, China. The three mould engineering specialists have joined forces to provide customers, many of whom are medical device OEMs, with an enhanced ...
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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, January 13th, 2011
DSM Dyneema has entered into a partnership with Proxy Biomedical to pursue research and production of ExtreMESH, a durable surgical mesh made from DSM’s Dyneema Purity high-performance polyethylene fibre technology. Dyneema Purity is the world’s strongest fibre, according to DSM. The companies made the announcement prior to the 2011 Annual ...
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