Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Chemicals company Wacker has announced that several silicone-polymer production lines have gone online at its Burghausen, Germany, site. The lines will enable expanded production of Silpuran and Elastosil silicone elastomers for medical applications. Production lines for UV silicones as well as Lumisil, Semicosil and Wacker SilGel silicone products for ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
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LPKF LaserWelding's new cleanroom in Erlangen, Germany started operations at the end of 2010. The company uses it for welding-process evaluations, especially for particularly sensitive plastic products. The new cleanroom complies with cleanness class ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
They may be called cleanrooms, but they sure can leave a dirty carbon footprint. Dycem, a maker of high-performance contamination control zones for medtech manufacturing and other critical applications, says it is doing something about that.
Dycem has pledged to reduce energy usage and shrink its carbon footprint whilst eliminating waste. ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Regenerative medicine has a new home in Loughborough, UK. Clean Modules Ltd announced this week that it has completed construction of a state-of-the-art cleanroom and laboratory research facility at Loughborough University. Funded by the university and the East Midlands Development Agency, the 770-m² Centre for Biological Engineering is dedicated to ...
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Nusil Technology LLC has announced the completion of a 2400-sq-ft Class 10,000 cleanroom at its Southern California facility. This comes on the heels of the recent launch of a Drug Delivery Silicone (DDS) line of materials and services intended specifically for drug delivery and combination medical device products. The new ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
There are four clear strategies to adopt to minimise a cleanroom’s carbon footprint without compromising its cleanliness. These are outlined in the article, “Cleanroom versus Green Room,” by Joe Govier, Managing Director of Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd, which is published in the April issue of European Medical Device Technology. After ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Outsourcing services provider Ximedica (Providence, RI, USA), an ISO certified and US FDA registered medical product development firm, has announced that it has added an additional 1500-sq-ft, Class 7 cleanroom to its headquarters in Providence, RI, USA. Ximedica provides outsourced research, design, engineering and contract manufacturing services. Within its 80,000-sq-ft ...
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