Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Undaunted by economic turmoil, medical device manufacturers expect another year of double-digit growth in 2009, and several are looking to expand capacity, writes Plastics News reporter Mike Verespej in an article published on 12 January. But at the same time, manufacturers are placing a greater emphasis on efficiency, and some ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The housing market may be sitting idle, but acquisition activity appears to be brisk among subcontractors that supply products and services to medical device manufacturers. It was announced today that full-service design and development company MedTech Development LLC (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) has been purchased by Tronics Microsystems S.A. (Crolles, France). Described as ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
To the surprise of no one, the med-tech industry is finding that there is, still, plenty of room at the bottom, to paraphrase physicist and nanotechnology pioneer Richard Feynman. The global medical market for nanotechnology applications accounted for approximately US$1.7 billion in 2007. The vast majority of this revenue--nearly 90%--was ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Prescient, moi? OK, that's conceited, but hey, I got your attention! And the boast is not entirely without merit. You be the judge.
On Wednesday, I put the finishing touches to a lead article for the MEDTEC Ireland section in the September issue of European Medical Device Manufacturer. Titled "MEDTEC Ireland ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
First, the bad news: It seems that Ireland's phenomenal run of economic growth may be on its last legs, at least for a while. A report issued by the Economic Social Research Institute at the end of June predicts the first fall in output since 1983. It's been one hell ...
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