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Specialty Coating Systems Releases German Language Website
November 20, 2009 (Indianapolis, Indiana) — Specialty Coating Systems (SCS), the world leader in Parylene conformal coatings and technologies, announced today the launch of its German language website. Global visitors to the SCS website are now able to access the German site by visiting the homepage at www.scscoatings.com and selecting "Deutsch" in the "Select Language" drop-down, located in the upper left corner of the page. "We take pride in having coating locations around the world and believe it is valuable to make doing business in these regions as convenient as possible," said Tim Bender, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing. In addition to the German language site, SCS also offers a Japanese site at www.parylene.co.jp. For more information about SCS, or our industry-leading line of conformal coating services and technologies, please visit www.scscoatings.com. About Specialty Coating Systems Notes: SCS and Specialty Coating Systems are registered trademarks of Specialty Coating Systems. #### | ||
published date: 11-20-2009 |
Value Plastics announces the latest additions to their online flexible tubing fitting tools.
VPQuickFit.com – 1. 2. 3. Done! www.vpquickfit.com Value Plastics has been listening to customer feedback regarding the www.valueplastics.com website. For many Value Plastics customers the current site works well. It is the industry leading informational hub for fluid connections and the latest news regarding Value Plastics. Some customers, however, already know what fitting, size and material they need and just want to get to it fast. With this new site customers can get to the fitting they need with 3 simple clicks. The full line of over 3,400 hundred tubing fittings has been reorganized and streamlined in this format. "We are very in touch with our customers, their feedback actually results in our improvement and I think we are proving that today with our new VPQuickFit.com website. A majority of our web visitors are returning visitors who rely on our proven quality, service and delivery and just needed us to get out of the way, and get them to their parts as fast as possible. Today we are doing that, and tomorrow we will move on to the next improvement!" explains Will Stone, Marketing Communications Manager for Value Plastics. Value Plastics has been serving customers online since 1997, and in 2006 added e-commerce to their website for purchasers of their flexible tubing fittings. Now they have added a full featured enterprise level purchasing backend to their flexible tube fitting website. New Account Management Features include: Address Book – Unlimited address storage, including the ability to change the default billing and shipping addresses and remove addresses at any time. Complete Order History – Track shipments, view past orders and duplicate recurring orders Complete Invoice History – Manage and track invoices Price Checking – Review pricing and availability by part number. Hierarchical Account Management – Multiple purchasers at a company can now manage and set specific purchasing criteria based upon organizational structure. Shipping Options – Customers can now choose to accept standard Value Plastics shipping terms, or use their own shipping account information (FedEx or UPS at this time). Customers can also choose to defer shipping until a later date based upon the organization's planned need. Volume Base Pricing – Access to discounted pricing information based upon high volume order quantities is available. Standard volume discounts established by Value Plastics appear once the lowest threshold volume quantity is entered in the shopping cart. Advanced Payment Option – Value Plastics' customers with Net Terms have the ability to place orders online using Purchase Orders. Customers are encouraged to contact the Value Plastics, Sales staff to express interest in participating in this new service. Value Plastics, Inc. makes and markets an innovative line of fluid management components designed specifically for flexible tubing. Products designed and manufactured include quick connect fittings, luer fittings, check valves, tube-to-tube fittings, threaded fittings and blood pressure monitoring components. Value Plastics products find global application in demanding healthcare OEM, research and specialty industrial applications. For further information, please contact Will Stone, Marketing Communications Manager, at (970) 267-5221 or wills@valueplastics.com. Value Plastics, Inc., 3325 South Timberline Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80525, phone (970) 267-5200, toll free in U.S.A. (888) 404-5837, fax (970) 223-0953, http://www.valueplastics.com
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published date: 11-18-2009 |
BeamOne LLC To Add New Ebeam Sterilization Service Center
Mid-Atlantic and Eastern U.S. medical device / pharmaceutical manufacturers to benefit from new electron beam sterilization service center SAN DIEGO, Calif. – November 18, 2009 — BeamOne LLC announces that it will locate its newest electron beam medical device sterilization service center in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Ground breaking will begin on the new facility in Q4 2009, and it is anticipated to be operational during Q4 2010. Pittsburgh will join the company's successful locations in California, Colorado, Ohio, and Costa Rica. According to Glenn Thibault, President and CEO of BeamOne, "Our ability to add a fifth facility, following so closely after the January 2009 opening of our Costa Rica service center, emphasizes that electron beam is the sterilization modality choice of the future. The addition of our Pittsburgh center is one more stepping stone on BeamOne's course of controlled expansion and growth." BeamOne's technological ability to efficiently process virtually any shipment size, as well as accommodate both large and small product configurations, provides medical product manufacturers with processing flexibility and faster time to market. The Pittsburgh build plan includes the opportunity to add a second electron beam system, thus doubling the capacity of the service center to meet customer demand. The new center will provide sterilization services for single-use medical device, pharmaceutical, and labware manufacturers as well as tissue processors. About BeamOne ### Manufacturers who may have interest in BeamOne's sterilization and/or consulting services are invited to visit our web site at www.beam-one.com, contact our Customer Care Department at marketing@beam-one.com, or call us toll free at 800 438-1423. Company Contact: | ||
published date: 11-18-2009 |
Sterigenics International to Expand Petit Rechain Facility
LEUVEN, BELGIUM, October 29, 2009: The Board of Directors of Sterigenics International, the world's leading provider of contract sterilisation services for the medical device industry, has approved further expansion of the Petit Rechain, Belgium facility. This expansion is to deal with the increased customer demand noticed in the last 18 months and is seen as the next step in the company's long term strategy to create a network of equivalent sterilizers. It provides incremental capacity as well as providing our European customer base with a true back-up capability. The extension will add 40% of additional capacity and will include two more state-of-the-art sterilisers that can hold up to 32 Euro pallets. Construction is scheduled to begin in the 4th Quarter of 2009, with completion expected in September 2010. "As the global market share, technology, and know-how leader, we see that there is a need for ETO capacity, and our strategy is to provide that capacity aligned with the major European distribution networks of the medical device industry" says Dirk Beelen, Vice President Sales and Marketing Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. "The new plant will immediately be equipped to offer parametric release to address the speed to market requirement. Once complete, the expansion will make Petit Rechain the largest contract sterilisation ETO facility in the world." About Sterigenics International Sterigenics International, Inc., is a portfolio company of Silverfleet Capital (formerly PPM Capital Limited) and PPM America Capital Partners who manage private equity investments on behalf of Prudential plc, one of the United Kingdom's leading institutional investors, together with other clients. Headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, IL, Sterigenics is the world leader in contract sterilization and ionization services for the medical device, food safety and high performance/ specialty materials industries. The company has more than 1,200 employees and operates 39 service centers in North America, Europe and Asia. For additional information please contact | ||
published date: 11-18-2009 |
John B. Kowalski, Ph.D. signs a multi-year exclusive agreement with Sterigenics as a Senior Staff Consultant
Itasca, IL – October 7, 2009: Sterigenics International, a global leader in sterilization services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, announced today the signing of a multi-year exclusive agreement with John B. Kowalski, Ph.D., to serve as a Senior Staff Consultant with the SteriPro Consulting team. John is a broadly trained microbiologist and has 30 years experience in the development, validation, and transfer of sterilization processes for medical products, mainly with the Sterilization Science & Technology group of Johnson & Johnson, where he became Chief Scientist and Executive Director. John most recently has been the proprietor of microGAMMA, LLC, a successful consulting firm specializing in sterilization microbiology, sterilization process development and validation, and quality assurance/regulatory issues. He has expertise in both radiation and ethylene oxide sterilization, as well as a number of other sterilization processes, such as moist heat, gas plasma and ultraviolet light. In the radiation field, he developed the VDmax methodology for substantiation of a radiation sterilization dose, as well as publishing and co-authoring a number of technical papers on sterilization. He also has considerable experience in the development of single-use disposable and absorbable polymer-based medical devices. "Over the past year working with John has provided the SteriPro team an extra advantage in the world of sterilization science consulting. With his exceptional analytical and problem solving ability, allied to his experience with a range of sterilization technologies and medical device product development, we continue to bring exceptional knowledge and experience to our SteriPro Consulting services and Sterigenics' medical device and pharmaceutical customers. In addition, the intellectual property John brings to Sterigenics with his extensive development work with the VDmax methodology will give us an important competitive advantage." said Lisa Foster, Vice President of Sterigenics SteriPro Services. About Sterigenics International Sterigenics International, Inc., is a portfolio company of Silverfleet Capital (formerly PPM Capital Limited) and PPM America Capital Partners who manage private equity investments on behalf of Prudential plc, one of the United Kingdom's leading institutional investors, together with other clients. Headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, IL, Sterigenics is the world leader in contract sterilization and ionization services for the medical device, food safety and high performance/specialty materials industries. The company has more than 1,200 employees and operates 39 service centers in North America, Europe and Asia. For additional information please contact | ||
published date: 11-18-2009 |
Demand for RF Welding Technology Drives Expansion for Genesis Plastics Welding
Indiana-based Company Hires Key Staff and Plans to Double Facility Square-Footage INDIANAPOLIS (September 17, 2009) – Genesis Plastics Welding, a leading contract manufacturer of radiofrequency (RF) welded products, announces plans for a major expansion of its Indiana facilities. Genesis will double the size of its facilities, allowing the company to significantly increase production of thermoplastic products in response to industry demand. In addition, Genesis nearly doubled its management team and increased its product engineering resources. Due to increasing demand across all industries for contract plastics welding manufacturers to help organizations lower manufacturing costs, quicken production turnaround and increase the quality of their products, Genesis is in the unique position of needing to expand its facilities and add staff. "We're excited that this growth allows us to not only expand our company, but also positively impact Indiana's workforce," stated Tom Ryder, vice president of sales and marketing for Genesis Plastics Welding. Genesis plans to move into its new facility near Indianapolis within six months and hire additional staff to further accommodate this growth. The addition of the new facility — in close proximity to the company's existing location — will provide Genesis with nearly 50,000 square feet of production, packaging and office space. Examples of consumer and medical products manufactured by Genesis include blood pressure cuffs, inflatable bladders, hot and cold therapy packs, compression therapy sleeves, medical instrument covers and disposable heating blankets. Genesis attributes much of its growth to increasing demand for its unique plastics welding technology, ecoGenesis, which enables the RF welding of plastic materials previously considered difficult or impossible to heat seal without the addition of expensive — and often toxic — adhesives and plasticizers. This technology, which eliminates the need for these additives, will be demonstrated daily at the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Expo in San Diego, Calif., September 23-25, 2009. Attendees may visit Genesis at Booth 1129. About Genesis Plastics Welding ### | ||
published date: 11-12-2009 |
Triple Ring Technologies Awarded NIH Challenge Grant
Grant for pediatric imaging development one of few awarded to non-academic institutions From NHLBI Director Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. "In the spirit of the Recovery Act, this research advances biomedical research while also retaining scientists to develop a technology with important public health benefits. The imaging system to be developed promises to reduce the radiation exposure of children having cardiac procedures, thereby potentially lowering their risk of cancer" NEWARK, California, October 7, 2009 – Triple Ring Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of early-stage advanced research and development services, today announced that it has been awarded a Challenge Grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The two-year $1 million grant, awarded through a highly competitive process with over 20,000 applications submitted, will fund the development of an X-ray imaging system for pediatric cardiac intervention. The pediatric system is based on ScanCath™ technology originally developed for Triple Ring partner NovaRay Medical and is expected to reduce the radiation dose to children by 75%, as compared to conventional systems. "Radiation dose in pediatric cardiac interventions is a serious concern, because children exposed to radiation have a far greater likelihood than adults to develop cancer in their lifetime," said Tobias Funk, PhD, physicist at Triple Ring Technologies and Principal Investigator on the grant. "This project is a great example of Triple Ring's ability to develop commercial instruments while competing at the forefront of scientific research." "We are very pleased that NIH has chosen Triple Ring as one of only a handful of companies to receive a Challenge Grant," said Joseph Heanue, PhD, President of Triple Ring Technologies. "This award further validates the breadth of our technical capabilities and the experience of our scientists and engineers." About Triple Ring Technologies About NovaRay Medical, Inc. # # # For more information, contact:
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published date: 11-11-2009 |
Colder Products Company Introduces New Fittings Product Line
FitQuik™ Connectors offer hundreds of new fluid management solutions for customers worldwide St. Paul, MN – October 21, 2009 – Colder Products Company introduced more than 350 new fittings and luers at MD&M Minneapolis today. The new line of FitQuik™ Connectors adds hundreds of cost-effective connection options to its current product offering of quick disconnect couplings and fittings. "Our customers have been asking for a single source for high-quality fittings, luers and couplings; we've added these products to meet this demand," said Dennis Downs, business development manager. "This vastly expanded offering gives medical device manufacturers and OEMs thousands of connector options from one supplier, making it easier to order multiple part numbers." FitQuik Connectors are manufactured under Colder's rigorous quality standards and are available in both black and white nylon and animal-free, natural polypropylene. These fittings feature precise hose barbs and thread forms to ensure a secure fit. New fitting styles include luers, tube-to-tube, thread-to-tube, blood pressure fittings and are offered with NPT and 10-32 threads. Additional configurations and materials will be added as part of an extensive product line expansion. Colder Products Company, a world leader in the design and manufacture of quick disconnect couplings, debuted the expanded fitting line and other new products at MD&M Minneapolis (Booth # 1119) at the Minneapolis Convention Center October 21-22, 2009. Attendees have the opportunity to meet with Colder experts and discuss coupling and fitting options for fluid handling applications. # # # About Colder Products Company Colder Products Company is a leading provider of quick disconnect couplings to industrial, life sciences and chemical handling markets. For a free catalog CD or more information, contact: Colder Products Company, 1001 Westgate Drive, St. Paul, MN 55114. Phone: 651-645-0091. Toll-free: 800-444-2474. Fax: 651-645-5404. Web: www.colder.com. CPC, Colder Products and Colder Products Company are registered trademarks with the U.S. Patent & Trademark office. | ||
published date: 11-09-2009 |
Fluke Biomedical to unveil new x-ray quality assurance technology at RSNA
CLEVELAND, OHIO – Fluke Biomedical announced today plans to unveil new additions to their x-ray maintenance, calibration, and quality assurance tool platform during the RSNA tradeshow in Chicago on November 29 – December 4, 2009. Sources close to the project report a new dosimeter is in the works for the wireless TNT 12000 X-Ray Test platform, as well as integrated mA/mAs measurement capability.
Offering customized bundles to ensure you can meet your QA test protocol without paying for extras you don't need, the TNT 12000 X-Ray Test Tools provide an unbeatable combination of accuracy, reliability, and ease of use. Now with choice of all-in-one detector, dosimeter, integral mA/mAs, and handheld display or user's own laptop interface, the TNT 12000 X-Ray Test Tools platform is anticipated to prove a new industry best for quality, speed, and customer-focused design.
Visit Fluke Biomedical at RSNA, booth # 4665, for the official unveiling of this innovative new technology. For more information about the RSNA event, visit www.rsna.org. About Fluke Biomedical About Fluke Corporation ## | ||
published date: 11-09-2009 |
New straight hemostasis valve prevents backflow, closes completely with easy-to-grip cap
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — New from B. Braun OEM Division (www.bbraunoem.com), a versatile straight hemostasis valve helps eliminate the backflow of fluid and accommodates a variety of devices up to 9.25 French such as catheters, scopes, lasers and guidewires. The valve's compact design features a large, easy-to-grip cap that facilitates smooth opening and closing of the valve. Its precision silicone closure gasket seals completely with or without a device in place. The valve has a standard ISO male luer with a rotating SPIN-LOCK® collar and its body, cap and collar are polycarbonate. The straight hemostasis valve is available bulk non-sterile or can be incorporated into a custom assembly. It expands the breadth of B. Braun OEM Division's existing hemostatic product offering, which includes hemostasis valve adapters and hemostatic Y-connectors. The straight hemostasis valves are part of a line of devices and components that can meet a wide variety of interventional applications. For more information about hemostasis valves from B. Braun OEM Division, call 866-8-BBRAUN, send email to info-usa@bbraunoem.com or visit www.bbraunoem.com. About B. Braun OEM Division About B. Braun Consistently recognized by Frost & Sullivan and KLAS for its medical technology and support services, B. Braun employees share their knowledge with colleagues and customers to improve working processes in hospitals and medical practices and to enhance the safety of patients and healthcare professionals. For more information, call 800-227-2862, e-mail us at inquiry.us@bbraun.com or visit B. Braun at www.bbraunusa.com. # # # | ||
published date: 11-05-2009 |
Dependable syringes available in three-piece and two-piece configurations
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — B. Braun OEM Division (www.bbraunoem.com) now offers a broad line of competitively priced polypropylene syringes in both three- and two-piece configurations in a variety of sizes and tip options. Available as a bulk non-sterile product, syringes from B. Braun OEM Division feature large, stable finger grips and smooth, steady plunger action to offer dependable performance. All B. Braun syringes are DEHP-free and latex-free for patient safety. B. Braun's Omnifix™ three-piece syringes are designed with a secure backstop to prevent accidental plunger withdrawal and a double seal stopper to prevent medication leakage. They are offered with or without scale markings in sizes from 1 ml to 50 ml and with Luer lock, Luer slip or eccentric tips. A 50 ml catheter syringe is also available. B. Braun's silicone-free Injekt™ two-piece syringes eliminate the plunger tip for added economy and provide an alternative when drug interaction is a concern. They are manufactured in sizes from 1 ml to 20 ml with Luer lock, Luer slip or eccentric tips. Additionally, the unique "F-tip" 1 ml Injeckt syringe option has a plunger tip that extends into the barrel tip to enable the ejection of virtually all costly, low-dose medication to minimize residual drug loss. B. Braun OEM Division syringes are part of a comprehensive line of medical device products and components that can accommodate a wide variety of fluid administration and procedural kit needs. For more information about syringes from B. Braun OEM Division, call 866-8-BBRAUN, send email to info-usa@bbraunoem.com or visit www.bbraunoem.com. About B. Braun OEM Division About B. Braun Consistently recognized by Frost & Sullivan and KLAS for its medical technology and support services, B. Braun employees share their knowledge with colleagues and customers to improve working processes in hospitals and medical practices and to enhance the safety of patients and healthcare professionals. For more information, call 800-227-2862, e-mail us at inquiry.us@bbraun.com or visit B. Braun at www.bbraunusa.com. # # # | ||
published date: 11-05-2009 |
Seven Critical Issues in Heater Selection for OEM Applications
Join us for this free webinar. Learn the best technology to use when applying heat in your designs. Minneapolis, MN, November 2, 2009 — Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, is sponsoring a free webinar on heater technologies. If you are a design engineer who needs to heat, warm or regulate the temperature of electronics, fluids, vessels, or other components in your designs, you should not miss this valuable webinar. You will come away with a clearer understanding of what considerations are most important when specifying a heater in an OEM design. Watch this webinar right from your computer on November 19, 2009 at 2PM EDT. There is no charge and registering is simple. Go to www.minco.com to register. In this webinar, you'll learn how:
There will be a Q&A session with Minco engineers following the presentation. For technical information, the Minco Engineer2Engineer Community gives you ready access to engineers at Minco who are happy to discuss your heating requirements. You can access this community via the website (http://www.minco.com), or phone 763-571-3121 for more information. A Prototype Heater Design Kit is also available. A Heater Design Guide can be ordered in print or downloaded. About Minco Worldwide Headquarters: 7300 Commerce Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55432 U.S.A. ### | ||
published date: 11-04-2009 |
Medical component manufacturer MRPC adds territory manager
BUTLER, Wis. (October 13, 2009) — MRPC, a single-source provider of medical device components and assemblies, has added Shane Mesenberg as the Upper Midwest Territory Manager. Mesenberg joins MRPC with 14 years of experience in the plastics molding industry. He received a bachelor's degree in composite materials engineering from Winona State University. Mesenberg's primary focus will be the Minneapolis area targeting the medical device marketplace. "Mesenberg is a key addition to our sales team," said Mark Brandstaetter, vice president of sales and marketing at MRPC. "His extensive background and strong knowledge of the Minneapolis area will assist in advancing MRPC's customer efforts in that territory." About MRPC # # # | ||
published date: 11-04-2009 |
Plastic Tubing Manufacturer Takes Steps to Go Green
Benefits the Environment & Saves the Company 60% on Trash Disposal
"Let's face it," says Ken Baker, CEO. "It's tough for a company that manufactures plastic tubing to call itself green—most of today's plastics are petroleum-based. So we've made efforts to recycle more and to reduce our energy consumption in a number of ways." A few months ago NewAge reorganized its trash disposal program to include recycling and compacting. Interestingly the catalyst for the effort was a team member, not management or a local mandate. After a brief training class, coworkers became enthused about the program and quickly jumped on board. It's a simple process to sort trash into two cans—recyclable and non. Benefits were realized immediately. In addition to helping the environment, the company saw a cost savings of 60% in its trash hauling charges in the program's first five months. Recycling at work is raising green awareness at home, too. Team members are encouraged to bring in recyclable items, including plastics numbered 1 through 7, that their local municipalities do not accept. This keeps more trash out of landfills. Recent building upgrades at the company's headquarters and manufacturing facility in Southampton, PA, include:
As NewAge continues to expand its clean room facilities for the production of AdvantaPure Single Use Systems (SUS) for the pharmaceutical market, it incorporates building upgrades such as new light fixtures and energy efficient ventilation systems. Late last year NewAge stopped printing a full-line product catalog. The 120-page book had been the staple of the company's sales force for decades, and discontinuing it was a heated topic among team members. The company decided to print smaller, material-focused books in house on an as-needed basis. The benefits include using much less paper, creating less waste, and allowing for up-to-date product specifications. It also helps shift customers and potential buyers to the company's web site, where PDF versions of each of the smaller catalogs are available. For more information on NewAge Industries' green efforts and its products, contact the Fluid Transfer Specialists® at NewAge Industries, Inc., 145 James Way, Southampton, PA 18966; phone 800-50-NEWAGE (800-506-3924) or 215-526-2300; fax 800-837-1856 or 215-526-2190; e-mail: info@newageindustries.com: online at http://www.newageindustries.com About NewAge Industries and AdvantaPure The AdvantaPure division of NewAge Industries specializes in clean products for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, food, beverage, chemical, and cosmetic industries. All products are manufactured, stored, and shipped using the cleanest methods possible to ensure unsurpassed product purity. # # # NewAge®, AdvantaPure®, and "Fluid Transfer Specialists®" are registered trademarks of NewAge® Industries, Inc. | ||
published date: 11-05-2009 |
Southampton, PA — NewAge® Industries, the maker of AdvantaPure® products for pharmaceutical and biotech industries and a manufacturer of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Selects Quality Management System (QMS) Software Solution from MasterControl and i4DM
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA – October 29, 2009 – MasterControl, a global provider of software solutions that enable regulated companies to improve internal efficiency and reduce overall costs while accelerating time to market, announced today that the company and i4DM, a MasterControl partner, have been selected as the software provider and implementation team of a quality management system (QMS) for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After an extensive evaluation of industry solution providers, the FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) selected MasterControl's quality management software solution to be used by their agencies that are engaged in field investigations enforcement, and scientific laboratory analysis of field samples. The system will be implemented across the United States, in regional offices, district offices, laboratories, and headquarters. The FDA's implementation phase will consist of the configuration of MasterControl's quality management system solution to improve ORA's vital quality processes, including:
Jonathan Beckstrand, MasterControl CEO said, "Given the thoroughness of the FDA's evaluation process it is particularly exciting to have been selected. We are very pleased that the FDA recognizes the quality of our QMS solution and our absolute commitment to the success of this project. Together with i4DM, our domain expertise and industry experience will create a solid, long-term solution for the FDA." Contributing factors that made MasterControl's quality management system a great fit for the FDA included its flexibility, functionality, and the cooperation, knowledge, and professional willingness of MasterControl personnel to support the success of the project. Partnering for Success Mike Peart, i4DM's CEO said, "We're very excited that the FDA selected us for this significant project. We look forward to working with both the FDA and MasterControl for a smooth and successful implementation that will help the FDA automate many of their core quality systems." "i4DM has the expertise in software integration consulting for large organizations that this job requires and MasterControl has the software solution," said Michael Bothe, MasterControl's vice president for strategic alliances. "As partners we provide a strong integrated solution to meet the FDA's requirements." About MasterControl Inc. About i4DM i4DM works closely with clients to gain an understanding of their environment and ascertain the technology needed to quickly gain competitive advantage. Client satisfaction and project status is continually monitored to ensure timely and comprehensive delivery. It is i4DM's mission to provide "solutions that ensure customer success through the application of innovative technology." For more information about i4DM, visit www.i4dm.com or call 410-729-7920. | ||
published date: 10-29-2009 |
Teleflex Medical OEM to Exhibit at COMPAMED 2009 in Germany
Teleflex Medical OEM will exhibit at COMPAMED 2009 to be held in Düsselfdorf, Germany on November 18-20, 2009. As part of this international trade fair, the Teleflex Medical OEM business will promote its extensive product development and production capabilities, and comprehensive portfolio of machined and forged surgical instruments, specialty sutures, performance fibers, precision extrusion, spinal and small bone implant systems, and custom medical devices. The Teleflex Medical OEM display is located in Hall 08a, booth L27. A sampling of the products showcased at COMPAMED includes:
COMPAMED is one of the leading international trade fairs for the medical device manufacturing industry. Designers and manufacturers from around the world will attend the event to find the sources they need to design, develop, and manufacture current and next-generation medical devices. COMPAMED is held in conjunction with MEDICA, the world's largest medical technology fair. The event is expected to attract 135,000 trade visitors. Teleflex Medical OEM, a preeminent global outsource provider, provides design, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, and assembly services to the industry's leading medical device manufacturers. The business is represented across the world by the brand names of Beere Medical®, KMedic®, Specialized Medical Devices™, TFX OEM®, and Deknatel®. Additional information about Teleflex Medical OEM can be obtained from the company's website at www.teleflexmedicaloem.com. | ||
published date: 10-29-2009 |
Camstar Acquires Technology Resources Group
Leading Manufacturing and Quality Software Provider Teams with Asia's Top High Tech Charlotte, NC — October 27, 2009 — Camstar Systems, Inc., the leading provider of manufacturing and quality software solutions for the Life Sciences, Solar and High Tech industries, today announced that it has acquired Technology Resources Group, Asia's leading Systems Integrator in the Semiconductor, Solar and Electronics manufacturing industries. Headquartered in Singapore with offices in China and Malaysia, Technology Resources Group offers expertise in manufacturing execution equipment automation, manufacturing applications development and program management for enterprise solution deployments. Camstar's acquisition of Technology Resources Group strengthens its leadership position in the Semiconductor, Solar and Electronics markets by expanding its services and support team in the Asia Pacific region. The move is expected to accelerate the growth of Camstar's comprehensive Manufacturing and Quality Platform in the region, where multinational, Chinese and Southeast Asian manufacturers alike focus on driving sustained growth while delivering to the quality standards that are expected by the global marketplace. "Technology Resources Group is a longstanding and trusted partner, and their unwavering commitment to customer service and success mirrors our own," said Scott Toney, Camstar President and CEO. "This acquisition is a key part of Camstar's strategy for dominating the manufacturing execution and quality management markets in Asia, which continues to grow as the production destination for global manufacturers. Also, we will be well positioned to serve the Medical Device and Biotech industries as they expand manufacturing operations into Asia, ensuring product quality which is so critical to the Life Science sector." "Technology Resources Group has significant expertise and domain knowledge that will allow us to extend our industry-leading solutions for Solar, Semiconductor and Electronics," said Robert Rudder, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Camstar. "Our combined services and support teams will further enhance our ability to expand our current Systems Integrator and Reseller partner network in China, which is critical to Camstar achieving our growth targets in the local China market." "We are delighted and excited to join Camstar and lead their growth in the Asia region," said Kong Eng Teck, Technology Resource Group's founder and CEO, who will assume the role of Managing Director, Camstar Asia. "Our mutual vision for the region as well as our combined commitment to customers should allow us to quickly gain market share in our industries and help facilitate the technical development of additional partners in the region. The positive synergies between the two organizations make this union not only a win for our companies, but more importantly a significant win for our customers in Asia." About Technology Resources Group Recognized by AMR Research as one of the global systems integrators [Service Providers in Manufacturing Operations, November 2006], TR Group had been singled out as having established capabilities to serve the High Tech and Electronics Industries. TR Group's clients are among the list of top fortune 500 companies, including large multinational corporations AMD, Canadian Solar, Cypress and SanDisk. For more information, visit www.techresgroup.com About Camstar Systems, Inc. Camstar is the largest in its market, including solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management, and manufacturing intelligence. For over 25 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Life Technologies, Luvata, MiaSole, Noven Pharmaceutical, NXP, Pacific Biosciences, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Xilinx, Zeiss, and ZOLL. For more information, visit www.camstar.com ### Media Contact: | ||
published date: 10-28-2009 |
Interface Catheter Solutions HSO-250 Heat Setting Oven for PTA and PTCA Catheters is Compact, Easy to Operate and Cost Effective
Interface uses the HSO-250 for its contract manufacturing of balloon catheters and has observed an overall reduction in the wrapped balloon profile by several French sizes when unsheathed shortly after wrapping. This lower profile is particularly useful when a stent is to be crimped on the catheter. The HSO-250 facilitates the manufacture of balloon catheters with low profile sheath compatibility. The HSO-250 multiple balloon catheter heat chambers have precise and uniform temperature control. The front panel chambers can accommodate balloon lengths up to 150 mm while the side panel chambers are capable of heat setting longer length balloons up to 250 mm. Each heat chamber has a tapered guide for easy insertion and to keep the sheathed balloon centered, preventing bending and eliminating direct contact. The heater remains on and maintains the preset temperature for consistent results and reduced cycle times. The HSO-250 is simple to operate for repeatable results. Interface Catheter Solutions is the only vertically integrated provider of outsourced solutions for catheter manufacturing. Interface has been solely focused on the balloon catheter market since 1995 and continually sets industry standards through process and equipment advancements in catheter manufacturing. Interface has created more than 2,000 balloon designs, and offers balloon and catheter design and development, extruded balloon tubing, balloon contract manufacturing, catheter contract manufacturing, plus a comprehensive line of balloon catheter production and testing equipment. Interface is ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2000 certified and operates multiple class 10,000 (ISO Class 7) and 100,000 (ISO Class 8) clean rooms in three facilities. Interface's headquarters is located at 27752 El Lazo Road, Laguna Niguel, California. www.interfaceusa.com Tel 949.448.7056. Company Contacts: Eric Mabry | ||
published date: 10-28-2009 |
Interface Catheter Solutions HSO-250 Heat Setting Oven provides a cost-effective approach to heat treating of wrapped balloons on balloon catheters. Heat treating can improve fold memory retention and reduce the wrapped profile after unsheathing. Use of the HSO-250 allows reduction of cycle times for expensive fluting and wrapping equipment. The HSO-250 can heat set multiple balloon catheters and provides precise heat and time setting options.Tuohy Borst Adapter With Male Luer Spin Lock
Qosina stocks an extensive inventory of catheter components, hemostasis valves, and guidewire accessories to meet your design requirements. Call our Customer Service Specialists to obtain our latest catalog, request a sample, or place an order at +1 (631) 242-3000, fax +1 (631) 242-3230 or e mail info@qosina.com. Visit us at www.qosina.com to see our latest products. A custom product sourcing service is available through our knowledgeable specialists using Qosina's extensive resources. Qosina is a worldwide supplier of thousands of stock and custom-made OEM disposable components including connectors, luers, caps, clamps, adapters, stopcocks, valves, swabs, spikes, syringes and tubing. Qosina operates an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 registered facility. Contact: QOSINA | ||
published date: 10-27-2009 |
Edgewood, NY July 1, 2009 - The Qosina catalog of OEM components includes more than 50 Tuohy Borst adapters. New Nicaragua Facility
Command Medical Products, Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of their second Managua, Nicaragua facility. The new 30,000 square foot facility offers expanded assembly and packaging capacity along with custom tube extrusion. Designed for high volume, labor intensive products, Command's Nicaragua facility offers cost competitive pricing with all of the benefits of working with a domestic supplier as all orders are processed through the Florida corporate offices. Founded in 1987, Command Medical Products, Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Ormond Beach, Florida offering contract manufacturing services for the production of disposable medical devices. Command's core competencies include extrusion of medical tubing, R.F. welding, assembly and packaging services. Command's facility is ISO 13485 certified and registered with the FDA. For more information visit www.commandmedical.com or contact Command at 386-672-8116. | ||
published date: 10-26-2009 |
Next Generation Swager from Machine Solutions Inc. Reduces Production Costs with Automated Batch Processing
Flagstaff, AZ USA, May, 2009 - Machine Solutions Inc.– Machine Solutions Inc. (MSI) announces the launch of its next generation SW575S Automated Marker Band Swaging Equipment intended to reduce production costs with automated batch processing. This machine automatically positions and swages marker bands within tight manufacturing tolerances. Intended for high volume PTCA product manufacturing, the pick and place feeding option allows for continuous, automated processing. "MSI's mission has always been to meet customer needs and in this economy increasing productivity is a must. Now with the new SW575S a single operator can monitor multiple machines which saves time and money on the manufacturing floor," says Product Manager Melissa Lachowitzer. "Some of our early adopters of the technology have found that the tight tolerances the machine holds on band position can reduce their post inspection time." The profile driven SW575S includes an integrated PLC control system with touch screen interface for easy process development and quick product changeover. The SW575S laser thruâ€beam sensor and servo actuator systems precisely position marker bands. The pick and place head delivers product from an autoâ€load tray holding up to 100 pieces of PTCA product. Rejected product is automatically set aside in a separate tray to allow for continuous processing. The SW575S utilizes the MSI Flexure Die Plate to prevent unwanted particulate and reduce noise in the cleanroom. About Machine Solutions Inc. Machine Solutions Inc. | ||
published date: 10-26-2009 |
Metal Pushbutton Switch with Ceramic Actuator Offers Breakthrough Switching Technology
Ceramic material enhances illumination, thwarts destructable elements, is biocompatible
The switch is available with or without illumination. The non-illuminated version offers a translucent white actuating surface. Black lettering can be applied directly onto the ceramic material. The composition of the base material, and the lettering process, accounts for the actuator's resistance to scratches and common cleaning agents. The illuminated version is uniformly lit across the entire surface of the actuator. Lettering and symbols can be applied for a positive effect or conversely through the use of negative lettering to produce the inverse effect. These new innovative features extend the range of application possibilities in products such as vending equipment, ticketing machines, restaurant processing equipment, public restrooms and other sanitary utilities, as well as medical equipment designed for hypoallergenic environments. The MSM CS stands up to vandal attacks. It has a very low profile of 1.7mm, which prevents impact to the switch from the side. The switch front withstands a high level of impact with a rating of IK07 and has an IP 69K protection class rating for seal-tight protection against liquids and common chemical agents. The MSM CS microswitch is UL, CSA and ENEC approved and is available in 19 mm and 22 mm mounting diameters. Different switch configurations are offered over a range of 30 VDC to 250 VAC. Current rating ranges from 0.1 to 10 A, depending on switching voltage. The MSM CS is equipped with quick connect terminals to allow for easy assembly. The microswitch is pre-wired in the assembly and then snapped onto the switch housing. The MSM CS is packaged 10 pieces per box and pricing starts at around $18.00 per piece in quantities of 100. Information on the new switch can be found at www.schurterinc.com/new_switches. For sales and product information, contact Cora Umlauf at 800 848-2600 or info@schurterinc.com. About Schurter Inc. | ||
published date: 10-20-2009 |
Santa Rosa, California, September 8, 2009 — Schurter is pleased to announce the first of its kind metal pushbutton switch, touting an actuator made of highly durable ceramic. The new MSM CS with ceramic surface is new to switching technology and provides enhanced features such as: full illumination of the actuating surface; resistance to scratches, abrasions, impact and chemicals; hypoallergenic to touch.PARKER PAGE Flare-Sealâ„¢ Assemblies Increase Flow
Chemically resistant and durable, the PAGE PTFE Flare-Seal™ can be provided on convoluted and smooth bore hoses with a polypropylene or stainless steel braid. Optional platinum cured silicone or other covers are offered. Assemblies in various lengths with flanged assemblies ranging from sizes ½" up to 4" I.D. and sanitary assemblies in sizes from ½" up to 2" I.D, these PTFE hoses are compliant with FDA 21 CFR 177.1550, USDA, 3A, USP XXIII Class VI requirements as well as the European Pharmacopoeia standards. With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company employs approximately 52,000 people in 48 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 53 consecutive years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.parker.com, or its investor information site at http://www.phstock.com. Parker PAGE Flare-Seal™ Hoses are priced according to size, length and quantity. Literature is provided upon request. For a brochure, please contact: Janine Kruit, Marketing | ||
published date: 10-15-2009 |
October 15, 2009 – Fort Worth TX Parker PAGE International offers a full line of convoluted and smooth bore Flare-Seal™ assemblies which increase flow by providing smooth, clean connections and preventing bacterial entrapment. The PARKER PAGE Flare-Seal™ Hose assemblies feature a PTFE liner which passes through the fitting and is flared over the fitting face to provide 100% full PTFE coverage on all wetted surfaces. Eliminating flow restrictions and bacterial entrapment, this seal is offered with braided convoluted or smooth bore hoses and sanitary or flange fittings. Also, PTFE has the lowest coefficient of friction of any tube in the market, contributing to increased media flow.Perfecseal in Derry, Northern Ireland Registered to ISO 13485:2003
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (October 13, 2009) Perfecseal, a Bemis Company and global market leader in the medical device, pharmaceutical and diagnostics packaging industries, announces registration to the ISO 13485:2003 Medical Device Quality Management System for its facility in Derry, Northern Ireland. ISO 13485:2003 specifies requirements for quality management systems in which organizations demonstrate the ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet both customer and regulatory requirements. This brings the total number of Perfecseal facilities registered to this new standard to 5, including all continental U.S. based facilities: Philadelphia, PA; Mankato, MN; Oshkosh, WI; and New London, WI. According to Matt Boswell, Perfecseal Director of Quality, "Perfecseal is in the process of upgrading our global ISO certifications from ISO 9001:2000 to ISO 13485:2003. We have plans for all locations to be certified to this new ISO standard by the end of 2009." A global leader in the healthcare and pharmaceutical packaging markets, Perfecseal specializes in the manufacture of co-extruded films, laminated films, flexible forming films, foil barrier films, pouches, bags, thermoformed trays, lids, labels, Perfecseal® heat seal coating on DuPont™ Tyvek*reg; and Perfecseal® heat seal coating on medical grades of paper. Perfecseal, a division of the Bemis Company, has facilities located in Oshkosh and New London, WI; Mankato, MN; Philadelphia, PA; San Juan, PR; Derry, Northern Ireland; Selangor, Malaysia; and Suzhou, China. For more information, please visit our website at www.perfecseal.com. Bemis Company is a major supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials used by leading food, consumer products, manufacturing, and other companies worldwide. Founded in 1858, the Company reported 2008 net sales of $3.8 billion. The Company's flexible packaging business has a strong technical base in polymer chemistry, film extrusion, coating and laminating, printing and converting. The Company's pressure sensitive materials business specializes in adhesive technologies. Headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, Bemis employs about 15,800 individuals in 61 manufacturing facilities in 11 countries around the world. More information about the Company is available at its website, www.bemis.com. DuPont™ and Tyvek® are trademarks or registered trademarks of DuPont. | ||
published date: 10-13-2009 |
Gore Introduces SPEC-Compliant, Passive 10 Meer SFP+ Cable
Through the use of patented GORE™ EYE-OPENER+® Conductor Technology and an extremely low loss expanded PTFE cable dielectric, Gore is able to balance the dWDP (waveform distortion penalty) and VMA loss (voltage modulation amplitude) parameters to achieve results within the specification limits set forth by the SFF-8431 committee. Gore has demonstrated typical values for VMA loss of 3.95 dBe and a dWDP of 5.60 dBe. The SFF-8431 specification calls out maximum limits of 4.40 and 6.75, respectively. Gore's proprietary expanded PTFE is branded as GORE-TEX® in the fabrics market. Russ Hornung, Product Manager at Gore, comments, "We continue to meet the challenges of the industry and set the benchmark for performance. Quite frankly, we utilize better processes and materials in both our cable and our connector printed circuit boards. Combined with our unique technologies, this allows us to offer a product that is more economical, more efficient, and also more robust than fiber optic transceivers for the critical 10 meter use length for rack-to-rack installations. Additional operational cost savings are realized with this product since it doesn't generate the heat of optical transceivers." Chris Ericksen, Application Engineer at Gore, adds, "Our unique material set allows us to develop a product that further extends the useful length of passive copper. We see a market that seems to struggle to achieve 5 to 7 meter use lengths reliably." Chris highlights, "The SFF specification was written around the best conventional 8.5 meter cable that the committee identified as being interoperable. They measured the performance and then added margin. Thus, the VMA and dWDP values reflect a maximum 7 meter for a good cable, or something less for a marginal cable. The fact that we can go another 40% is quite remarkable and is a testament to our superior materials and processes." Since August 2008, Gore has offered both 7 and 8 meter SFP+ passive cables with significant performance margins. The addition of low-profile 2.10 mm cable in January 2009 and now the passive 10 meter cable round out a highly valued platform for Gore. For more information about Gore's full line of cables and assemblies, visit gore.com/highspeed. About W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ### | ||
published date: 10-12-2009 |
Landenberg, PA, October 12, 2009 — 48V Power over Ethernet (PoE) Active Injector
GlobTek, Inc. | ||
published date: 10-09-2009 |
GlobTek's GT-91085-1548 48V Power over Ethernet (PoE) Active Injector offers a compact and cost effective, fully IEEE 802.3af compliant solution for remote powering of Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Points, Voice over IP phones and network security cameras. The Active Injector has automatic detection and protection of legacy Ethernet terminals, eliminates the need for external power supply and its associated AC/DC power cabling, providing a compact, affordable, safe and reliable power solution over existing Ethernet infrastructure. Injectors are available in the following configurations: with bicolor LED on top of enclosure; IEC320/C14 AC input inlet, with RJ45 with built-in LEDs, or with bicolor LED on top of enclosure; IEC320/C6 AC input inlet, with RJ45 with built-in LEDs, or with bicolor LED on top of enclosure; changeable wall plug-in AC blades, with RJ45 with built-in LEDs.New Compact Liquid Pump with REFLEX Valve Technology Introduced by Thomas
Maximum flow is 180 ml/min, with a maximum pressure of 80 m H2O and a maximum vacuum of 6 m H2O. Thomas Products Division, a Gardner Denver Company based in Sheboygan, WI, is a world leader in the design and manufacture of precision engineered compressors and vacuum pumps. Thomas products are found in medical and pharmaceutical equipment, automobiles, business machines, printing presses, packaging machines, environmental systems and vending products, among others. Gardner Denver, Inc. is a leading worldwide manufacturer of reciprocating, rotary and vane compressors, liquid ring pumps and blowers for various industrial and transportation applications, pumps used in the petroleum and industrial markets, and other fluid transfer equipment serving chemical, petroleum and food industries. Gardner Denver (NYSE: GDI) is headquartered in Quincy, IL. For more information, visit the company's Web site, gardnerdenver.com. Please send inquiries to: Marketing Department | ||
published date: 10-09-2009 |
Thomas has introduced the new 1210 Series Diaphragm Liquid DC pump. Featuring the new REFLEX valve (patent pending) design that provides a bubble-free liquid flow, the 1210 Series is perfect for fuel cell, inkjet and diagnostic applications. Available in 12V and 24V DC diaphragm models, this efficient, compact pump (2.0" x 0.9" x 1.4") is able to handle a mixture of air and liquid, has a low sound level and is lightweight (2.4 oz./68g).Value Plastics announces the immediate availability of its newest full-line catalog of precision fluid management components, Vol. 24.
The new catalog contains detailed information on thousands of products and includes all new products recently introduced:
in addition to a wealth of technical information to assist you in selecting the best components for your application, whether your application is healthcare-related, industrial or laboratory. Digital PDF copies can be downloaded at http://www.valueplastics.com/literature_center/index.aspx. Or, if you prefer, physical copies may be obtained by submitting a request online at https://www.valueplastics.com/marketing/reqcatalog.aspx or calling Value Plastics Inside Sales at 970-267-5200 (toll free in U.S.A. at 888-404-5837). Value Plastics, Inc. makes and markets an innovative line of fluid management components designed specifically for flexible tubing. Products designed and manufactured include quick connect fittings, luer fittings, check valves, tube-to-tube fittings, threaded fittings and blood pressure monitoring components. Value Plastics products find global application in demanding healthcare OEM, research and specialty industrial applications. For further information, please contact Will Stone, Marketing Communications Manager, at 970-267-5221 or wills@valueplastics.com. Value Plastics, Inc., 3325 South Timberline Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80525, phone 970-267-5200, toll free in U.S.A. 888-404-5837, fax 970-223-0953, http://www.valueplastics.com | ||
published date: 10-08-2009 |
Stellar Technologies Medical Component and Device Development and Manufacturing
Stellar Technologies Increases its Offerings to the Medical Device Industry Through $1.5 Million Investments in Advanced Manufacturing Equipment and Expanded Technical Personnel. Brooklyn Park, MN – September 28, 2009 – Stellar Technologies (www.stellar-technologies.com) has increased its capabilities through investments in high-tech manufacturing, inspection and cleaning equipment. Being added to Stellar's expansive list of machining equipment are three 4-axis Vertical Milling Centers and two 11-axis Swiss Lathe. In addition to the machining equipment, Stellar Technologies has added a dual spindle, 8-filar, automated coil winder and a state-of-the-art fiber laser tubing cutter with an automated feed system. In support of this manufacturing equipment expansion, Stellar Technologies has also invested in additional inspection and cleaning equipment, including digital vision systems, automated dual camera, an electropolishing station and an ultrasonic cleaning system with a six foot long capacity. Stellar Technologies has also increased its workforce by over 15% in the last year. This increase includes the addition of four engineers in support of its expansion in machining, coiling, laser cutting/welding and clean room assembly capabilities. All of these engineers have a minimum of ten years experience in the medical device industry and will also help support Stellar's growing design and development business in the manufacture of cardiac and neuro stimulation lead assemblies. COMMENTS FROM DENNIS/STELLA – "EVEN IN DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES WE HAVE CONTINUED TO INVEST IN STELLAR, BOTH IN EQUIPMENT AND PERSONNEL TO EXPAND OUR CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITY. WE EXPECT SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN 2010." Visit www.stellar-technologies.com or call 763-493-8556 to learn more about Stellar Technologies. About Stellar Technologies: Stellar Technologies has been a partner to medical companies for nearly 15 years and specializes in manufacturing complicated components and assemblies of the highest quality. Stellar's expertise in design assistance, feasibility studies, process validation, FDA assistance and production management provides customers with total project management. Stellar supports companies in the medical industry including Neuromodulation, Cardiology, Radiology, Neurovascular, Orthopedic and Endoscopy markets. Stellar Technologies is ISO 13485 certified and FDA compliant. | ||
published date: 10-06-2009 |
Medical device manufacturer MRPC awarded ISO 13485 certification
Only 367 companies in U.S. have achieved this significant milestone BUTLER, Wis. (September 17, 2009) — MRPC (http://www.mrpcorp.com), a leading single-source provider of innovative medical device components and assemblies, announced today that it has received ISO 13485 certification. The certification covers all disciplines within the company. MRPC is also ISO 9001 certified. The certificate confirms that MRPC has successfully implemented a quality management system that matches the worldwide quality management system standard for medical devices. It demonstrates MRPC's ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements. "We pursued ISO 13485 certification because ensuring delivery of the safest and most effective products possible better serves our customers," said Michael Dalton, director of quality at MRPC. "Producing high-quality components and assemblies keeps customers coming back and opens up new medical device markets for us in more sophisticated areas, including implantables." MRPC's sophisticated training and quality improvement programs, together with its experience, made seeking the ISO 13485 certification a logical next step. In addition, MRPC is finding that, more and more, the medical device companies it works with want their partners to meet the same high regulatory standards that they do. "While the ISO 13485 certification is still in its infancy, we think that it will become a standard requirement of medical device manufactures within three to five years," Dalton said. "MRPC wanted to jump ahead of the curve to demonstrate that we offer our customers the best and most efficient services today." ISO 13485 is an International Organization for Standardization (IS0) standard that focuses on the unique and rigorous requirements for companies involved in the development of medical devices. Manufacturers must demonstrate that quality management systems are implemented and maintained to receive the certification, which addresses such quality issues as risk management, sterilization and traceability. About MRPC # # # | ||
published date: 10-06-2009 |
Needle Manufacturer Focuses on Long Endoscopic Devices
More information is available at: http://www.needletech.com/html/what_s_new.html # # # | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
Attleboro, MA, USA; October 1, 2009 — NeedleTech Products, Inc. has announced the successful expansion of its long Endoscopic Device manufacturing facility. In order to accommodate long endoscopic devices, which measure between one- to eight-feet long, the company has developed customized grinding, finishing, cleaning and insert molding equipment. Specialized jigs and fixtures, along with proprietary production processes have also been established to enable proper handling of these extra long products. Endoscopic Device materials commonly include plastic extrusions, Stainless Steel tubing and Nitinol wires. NeedleTech Products, Inc., incorporated in 1988, is a leading developer & manufacturer of needle-based medical devices.Micro Side Seal Check Valve Eliminates Distortion and Is Easy To Mount
Precisely engineered, check valve with external seal suitable for many applications Morgan Hill, CA – September 25, 2009 – Smart Products, Inc. has introduced its new 122 Side Seal Cartridge Check Valve, a smaller version of its 132 Side Seal Cartridge Check Valve. Used in liquid and air applications, this micro check valve solves the mounting problems typically associated with traditional check valves.
Available in a choice of materials and a range of opening pressures from 0.07 to 20 PSI, the 122 Side Seal Cartridge Check Valve delivers a water flow rate of 1.8 LPM at 5 PSI.
Smart Products cartridge check valves provide accurate, reliable control of fluid or gas in low pressure, low flow OEM systems and are often a cost effective alternative to metal valves, which are subject to corrosion. The valves feature a low inertia poppet design and double-tapered o-ring seats for a fast, positive seal. For additional information about all of our Side Seal Cartridge Check Valves call 800-338-0404. About Smart Products, Inc. | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
Incorporating a cylinder-shaped design with an external sealing o-ring, the 122 Side Seal Cartridge Check Valve offers users convenient mounting options for manifolds or assemblies. The 122 Check Valve fits any 5/16" I.D. (inner diameter) hole – whether drilled, milled, or molded. The external o-ring ensures a positive seal, eliminating the distortion typically caused by press fitting valves.
Both the 122 and 132 are used for various applications across a wide range of industries including medical, food and beverage, water treatment, industrial, automotive, marine, or any application requiring a manifold or panel-mounted check valve. They provide proper sealing that eliminates the need for glues or other materials that lead to out gassing.New Olympus Stream v1.3 Material Science Microscopy Software Stream-lines Image Capture, Analysis and Data Management
Center Valley, Pa., September 21, 2009 — Industrial engineers, quality-control inspectors and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3. In industrial laboratory environments where analysis routines can be complex and workflows difficult to manage, Stream's intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) guides the user from simple image capture to multifaceted material science applications. The program has numerous features that allow operators to attain usable results quickly and easily: Instant EFI delivers sharply focused images in one click, Interactive MIA allows users to create panoramic images on the fly, AutoCal eliminates tedious microscope calibrations, and NetCam offers intranet viewing of live images for collaboration and discussion. "Olympus designed Stream to have the easiest, most intuitive GUI available anywhere," explained Olympus product manager Linda Sikel. "People are amazed at the ease with which they can access the power of the system to provide them with live and archived images, plus the reliable statistical data they need to get their jobs done quickly and efficiently. Our custom processing and analysis engine (CPAE) ensures behind-the-scenes communication that streamlines the process from initial image capture, analysis and measurement to reporting, archiving and database management." The Stream library offers solutions for more than a dozen of the most widely used material science applications such as point and count, phase analysis, grains, inclusions, cast iron, weld, banding, decarburization and dendrite spacing. All applications run in accordance with ISO and ASTM standards. Furthermore, Stream is easy to install and use. Most users are up and running within a day, and Olympus offers training and ongoing support either online or at customer facilities. There are five versions of the software, so it can be configured to meet any organization's individual requirements. Users who require secure top-level client server image/data workflow management and storage may prefer the fully modular Stream Enterprise, which is designed to handle the highest volumes of data, interfacing with Microsoft SQL™ and Oracle™ DBMS; the system can network entire organizations internally or externally via the Internet. Stream Motion is designed for users who want to control Olympus automated microscopes, digital cameras and related accessories from Olympus or other manufacturers, along with x-y-z scanning stages from Prior, Ludl Electronic Products (LEP), or Maerzhaueser, and automation high performance controllers such as Objective Imaging's OASIS-blue. When automated equipment is not in use, the Stream Essentials platform provides the needed power for Extended Focal Imaging or Multiple Image Acquisition. Stream Start and Stream Basic add efficiency and performance for users with less complex but equally vital requirements. For more information on the Olympus Stream software platform, contact Linda Sikel at Olympus America Inc., 3500 Corporate Parkway, Center Valley, PA 18034-0610 USA; phone (484) 896-5791, email linda.sikel@olympus.com or visit http://www.olympusamerica.com/stream. About Olympus Scientific Equipment Group – Industrial Microscopes About Olympus Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its affiliates worldwide to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines. These include:
Olympus serves the healthcare field with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers to efficiently, reliably and more easily achieve exceptional results. Olympus develops breakthrough technologies with revolutionary product design and functionality for the consumer and professional photography markets, and also is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com. | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
Olympus Documents Manufacturing Cleanliness with Automated Filter and Particle Analysis System
Center Valley, Pa., September 18, 2009 — In fields as diverse as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, heavy machinery and medical devices, inspecting and analyzing residue on filters is key for documenting the purity and cleanliness of the manufacturing process and analyzing particles found in fluids. The Olympus Automated Filter Analysis System makes identifying, reporting and archiving images and information on residual particles fast, accurate and highly reliable. In a matter of minutes, the user receives statistical data relating to identified particles; then the information is documented and archived. The fully automated system is a combination of hardware and intuitive software designed to provide detailed data in compliance with many ISO and USP international standards (in particular ISO 4406, 16232 and USP 788). The Olympus Automated Filter Analysis System consists of a microscope, digital camera, and motorized stage with controller and analysis software. Particle-by-particle data is provided on every inspection, and records can be stored for an unlimited time. Data storage is automatic, and doesn't rely on users to remember how or where to archive data. Other advantages include the system's adherence to key international and/or user-definable standards, speed, enhancement of data integrity, and an automated one-touch function for extraordinary ease of use. The system is designed to work with standard 47mm filters. "Unlike manual optical inspection systems, the Olympus system, in less than two minutes, accurately detects, counts, classifies, and measures residue particulates in filters," said Linda Sikel, Product Manager for Industrial Microscopes at Olympus America. "Because individual operators no longer have to examine each filter and make subjective judgments, there is better integrity to the data. The speed and accuracy of the integrated system also offers users a time saving element that could prove to deliver a stronger return on investment." For more information on the Olympus Automated Filter Analysis System, contact Linda Sikel at Olympus America Inc., 3500 Corporate Parkway, Center Valley, PA 18034-0610 USA; phone (484) 896-5791, email linda.sikel@olympus.com or visit http://www.olympusamerica.com/autofilteranalysis. About Olympus Scientific Equipment Group – Industrial Microscopes About Olympus Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its affiliates worldwide to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines. These include:
Olympus serves the healthcare field with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers to efficiently, reliably and more easily achieve exceptional results. Olympus develops breakthrough technologies with revolutionary product design and functionality for the consumer and professional photography markets, and also is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com. | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
Olympus Supports International Conference on Surface Metrology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Center Valley, Pa., September 16, 2009 — The study of surface roughness, which can affect everything from the way a coating adheres to a pill to the way light travels through solar panels, is one of the fastest growing areas of industrial research and development. To explore surface metrology and its varied applications, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is hosting a three-day international conference October 26-28 at the WPI Campus Center in Worcester, MA, with support from Olympus America Inc. The conference will focus on the latest advances and insights in surface metrology fundamentals, methods, equipment, software, and applications. The International Conference on Surface Metrology is open to engineers, scientists, technicians and the general public interested in surface roughness and surface metrology applications. The program features extensive tutorials, exhibits, and technical sessions addressing numerous technologies, industries and applications. In addition to engineering topics the conference includes technical presentations on surface metrology in archeology, anthropology and cultural preservation. There also will be poster sessions, an opening reception, and a conference dinner for participants. Olympus, whose Scientific Equipment Group's industrial microscopes and metrology systems play a leading role in precision R&D, engineering and manufacturing applications in fields as diverse as aerospace, the automotive industry, electronics, materials science/metallurgy, medical devices, photovoltaics, and semiconductors, is supporting the conference with personnel and advanced technology, including the recently introduced LEXT OLS4000 laser scanning confocal microscope, which allows high quality imaging and data collection, even with the most complex and hard-to-measure surfaces. "The roughness of surfaces is among the most important and least understood areas of metrology," said Matt Smith, Director of Sales and Marketing for Olympus America's Scientific Equipment Group-Industrial Microscopes business. "We are committed to advancing the field of metrology, and supporting the WPI Conference is part of our commitment to education, scholarship and special programs for metrology professionals." For more information on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute International Conference on Surface Metrology, contact David Rideout at Olympus America Inc., 3500 Corporate Parkway, Center Valley, PA 18034-0610 USA; phone (484) 896-5791, email david.rideout@olympus.com or visit http://www.olympusamerica.com/LEXT or http://surfacemetrology.org. About Olympus Scientific Equipment Group – Industrial Microscopes About Olympus Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its affiliates worldwide to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines. These include:
Olympus serves the healthcare field and commercial laboratory markets with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers to efficiently, reliably and more easily achieve exceptional results. Olympus develops breakthrough technologies with revolutionary product design and functionality for the consumer and professional photography markets, and also is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com/microscopes. | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
Quantitative Microscopy Workshop Sponsored by Olympus Focuses on Whole Slide Imaging, Image Analysis and Stereology
Center Valley, Pa., August 29, 2009 — Olympus is sponsoring an exciting new workshop for individuals interested in making meaningful quantitative measurements from digital images captured with light microscopes or whole slide scanners. The workshop, which will be held September 8-12 in Seattle, includes five full days of lectures, interactive sessions and hands-on experience. The 2009 Workshop on Quantitative Microscopy includes an in-depth review of the techniques and principles used in quantitative digital image analysis and stereology. In it, students will be introduced to processes that automate both image analysis and stereology – processes that dramatically improve efficiency and accuracy. A NanoZoomer® Digital Pathology System and various Olympus microscopes will be on hand for use by students. In addition to participating in workshops and hearing presentations by leaders in the field, participants will have the opportunity to work directly with the faculty to develop protocols for analysis of their own digital images generated during the course. The workshop will be held at the University of Washington School of Medicine at South Lake Union, 815 Mercer Avenue, Seattle, and reflects the close cooperation of the University's Comparative Pathology Program, Department of Comparative Medicine, along with its Center for Lung Biology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine. In addition to Olympus, other participants include Visiopharm A/S, The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, and The Histochemical Society. For more information, visit http://depts.washington.edu/compmed/HIC/course.html or contact Dr. Kimberly Wicklund, Olympus America Inc., at Kimberly.wicklund@olympus.com. About Olympus Scientific Equipment Group About Olympus Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its affiliates worldwide to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines. These include:
Olympus serves the healthcare field and commercial laboratory markets with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers to efficiently, reliably and more easily achieve exceptional results. Olympus develops breakthrough technologies with revolutionary product design and functionality for the consumer and professional photography markets, and also is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com/microscopes. NanoZoomer is manufactured by Hamamatsu Inc. NanoZoomer and the NDP symbol are registered trademarks of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
New Olympus LEXT OLS4000® Confocal Laser Microscope Takes Surface Metrology To Next Level
Center Valley, Pa., August 3, 2009 — The LEXT OLS4000®, the newest laser scanning confocal microscope from Olympus, is the next generation in non-contact optical measuring solutions. It advances scan accuracy, accelerates scan speed, and puts the power and flexibility of dual confocal technology into the hands of users, offering new capabilities in optical non-contact measuring with full traceability. The world's first laser-based dual-confocal system optimized to operate at 405 nanometers (nm), the system allows researchers, engineers and technicians to accurately measure and image angles up to 85 degrees. It also quickly and easily accommodates samples that have multiple reflectivity levels and offers what may be the first-ever accuracy and repeatability guarantee provided by an industrial confocal system manufacturer. The system takes roughness analysis to the next level. A new custom roughness analysis graphical user interface (GUI) provides a simple way to scan, stitch and measure samples up to 100mm long, while new filtering and calibration advancements allow the system to duplicate the results of stylus systems without contacting and potentially damaging the sample surface. For complex depth measurements that are both precise and repeatable, the LEXT OLS4000 has a new Z-drive that offers movement steps of less than one nm, providing exceptional accuracy and repeatability. Additionally, the instrument's new stage has an on-board vibration cancellation system, helping ensure that neither navigation nor external vibration will compromise accuracy. Whether measuring the laser mark depth on a bare wafer, analyzing the roughness of a raw material, determining the thickness of protective coatings on metal materials, or conducting surface analyses of automotive parts such as brake pads and discs, this customizable system delivers fast results with exacting accuracy. For more information on the Olympus LEXT OLS4000, contact David Rideout at Olympus America Inc., 3500 Corporate Parkway, Center Valley, PA 18034-0610 USA; phone (484) 896-5792, email david.rideout@olympus.com, or visit www.olympusamerica.com/LEXT. About Olympus Scientific Equipment Group – Industrial Microscopes About Olympus
Olympus serves the healthcare with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers to efficiently, reliably and more easily achieve exceptional results. Olympus develops breakthrough technologies with revolutionary product design and functionality for the consumer and professional photography markets, and also is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com. | ||
published date: 10-05-2009 |
10 Tips for Product Development White Paper
Handy checklist for the product development engineer. Minneapolis, Minn., September 28, 2009 —Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, is offering a free downloadable white paper titled 10 Tips for Product Development for Applications that Include Flex Circuits, Flexible Heaters, or Sensors. If you are a design engineer who is wants to learn more about how integrating sensing, heating and circuitry functions can give you a competitive edge, this white paper is for you. These tips will help you get to market faster by speeding up testing and reducing qualification time. They will help improve manufacturing yield and the reliability of your finished product. They will help you simplify assembly, ensure the accuracy of documentation and they will help control costs. Any one involved in the product development of electronic components should have this paper! If you need technical assistance, help with specifications, operating conditions, or application data; a Minco engineer is just a click away in the Minco Engineer2Engineer Community. You can also phone 763-571-3121 for more information. About Minco Worldwide Headquarters: 7300 Commerce Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55432 U.S.A. ### | ||
published date: 10-01-2009 |
G&L Precision Die Cutting Joins the Lohmann Group
San Jose, CA – October 1, 2009 — G&L Precision Die Cutting, Inc. today announced that it has been acquired by Lohmann Corporation, a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of Lohmann GmbH & Co, KG, which was founded in 1851. It will retain its name, G&L Precision Die Cutting, but become a limited liability corporation, LLC. Collectively known worldwide as The Lohmann Group, Lohmann is one of the world's leading manufacturers of specialty adhesive tapes and high-precision die-cuts. Lohmann adhesive tapes are used in a wide range of industries including automotive, building and construction, in the manufacture of consumer goods, in electrical and electronic devices, in the printing industry, mobile communication and for hygienic products. Worldwide with more than 1,100 employees and manufacturing facilities for solvent, dispersion, hot melt coating, and high-end die-cutting, in the USA, Europe and China, the Lohmann Group is well positioned to serve the ever changing global requirements of its customers for local service and production. Steven De Jong, President of Lohmann Corporation, USA, said "The acquisition of G&L fills an important role for our global growth plans. We now have a base of operations to support our growth in the Western USA, while also gaining access to the exciting growth market of point-of-care medical devices. With the existing coating and die-cutting capabilities we have in the USA today, it made perfect sense to expand our presence with the addition of G&L." Other locations in the States include Kentucky and Virginia. G&L founding partners, Loren and Jerry Alberico will continue to operate the company from its existing facility in San Jose and no personnel will be adversely affected. "We remain committed to keeping this team together and to help G&L support its customers' global development" added De Jong. The transition will be seamless for all customers, and G&L expects to be able to offer expanded converting services in the near future. "We are very pleased to become a part of Lohmann," commented founding co-partner Loren Alberico. "Their strong global presence and legacy of more than 150 years will only enhance our worldwide efforts, and I'm excited about the future for all of us." G&L Precision Die Cutting is a leading full service converter, specializing in tight-tolerance rotary and flat bed die cutting, slitting, laser cutting, printing, and multilayer laminating. For more than 30 years, the company has been a component supplier to the diagnostic, medical device, specialty industrial, electronics, and commercial marketplaces. Its proprietary GL-187® adhesive is internationally recognized as the standard for diagnostic test strips for lateral flow In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) devices. G&L is poised to remain the market leader to the point-of-care (P-O-C) lateral flow market for many years to come.' For more information on The Lohmann Group and G&L Precision Die Cutting, Inc. visit their websites at www.glprecision.com, http://lohmanncorp.com, and www.lohmann-tapes.com ### | ||||
published date: 10-02-2009 |
The NEW Sentinel Blackbelt joins the CTS Sentinel family of Precision Leak Test Instruments
The Sentinel Blackbelt advanced features and capabilities come in a compact user friendly bench top package and features:
The Sentinel Blackbelt joins the Sentinel C-20, which features four part programs including timer, pressure, leak rate and part change, the C-28, which shares many of the Blackbelt capabilities in a wall mounted enclosure, the Sentinel M-24, which features expanded capabilities that offer control of up to four independent stations and the most advanced leak tester on the market the Sentinel I-24, which features USB mass data storage, multi test type capability, 99 part programs and control of up to five tooling motions. Cincinnati Test Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures leak test instruments as well as fully automated leak detection systems, signature analysis & function testing systems and offers a full range of support services. Known in the industry for quality, performance, consistency and accuracy, the company offers solutions that optimize leak testing sensitivity and signature analysis monitoring as well as analyzing and communicating the data. Cincinnati Test Systems, Inc. is a TASI Group company. For more information on Cincinnati Test Systems, Inc., visit www.cincinnati-test.com. # # # Reader service inquiries should be forwarded to Richard L. Grady, VP Marketing; Cincinnati Test Systems, Inc.; 5555 Dry Fork Road, Cleves, OH 45002; Phone: 513-367-6699; Fax: 513-367-5426; E-mail: rgrady@cincinnati-test.com. | ||
published date: 10-01-2009 |
Cleves, Ohio — The Blackbelt is a precision benchtop leak test instrument designed for maximum performance and minimal space requirements. Cincinnati Test Systems’ Blackbelt instrument utilizes advanced algorithms derived from over 30 years of proven leak test experience to produce the fast and accurate results required by the most demanding customers. Blackbelt is perfect for clean room applications in medical device and electronics assembly. It is designed to be operator friendly, featuring a large vivid color display, and can handle a wide range of test types while offering outstanding data tracking capability.Versatile Miniature Diaphragm Pump Provides High Performance in a Small Package
Maximum flow is 4.3 lpm, with a maximum pressure of 27.5 psig/1.9 bar, and a maximum vacuum of 22.0 in.Hg. Thomas Products Division, a Gardner Denver Company based in Sheboygan, WI, is a world leader in the design and manufacture of precision engineered compressors and vacuum pumps. Thomas products are found in medical and pharmaceutical equipment, automobiles, business machines, printing presses, packaging machines, environmental systems and vending products, among others. Gardner Denver, Inc. is a leading worldwide manufacturer of reciprocating, rotary and vane compressors, liquid ring pumps and blowers for various industrial and transportation applications, pumps used in the petroleum and industrial markets, and other fluid transfer equipment serving chemical, petroleum and food industries. Gardner Denver (NYSE: GDI) is headquartered in Quincy, IL. For more information, visit the company's Web site, http://www.gardnerdenver.com. Please send inquiries to: Marketing Department | ||
published date: 10-01-2009 |
The new efficient 1410 Series DC miniature Diaphragm Pump offers many design options depending on specific application requirements. This compact (3.3" x 1.2" x 2.1") pump is designed so that a full range of motor options, and several design configurations, can be used depending on the life requirements and specifications of the application. Perfect for medical and other applications requiring high performance in a compact package, the 1410 Series features a low sound level, is lightweight (0.4 lbs/180g) and is EMC suppression qualified to EN55011-B on some designs.Basics of Flex Circuit Design White Paper
Learn if flex circuits might be your best solution. Minneapolis, Minn., September 28, 2009 —Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, is offering a free downloadable white paper titled Basics of Flex Circuit Design. If you are a design engineer who is wants to learn more about the repeatable wire routing, fast assembly and space and weight reductions that flex circuits offer over wiring harnesses, this white paper is for you. This paper will introduce you to the reasons to consider flex circuits. They are light, compact, robust, and resilient, and ideal for today's smaller and more portable electronics. They are ideal for new product designs, but can be used to replace not only traditional wire harnesses, but circuit boards as well. This paper shows designers the unique requirements of these circuits and their materials. A 30-page Flex Circuits Design Guide can ordered in print from Minco's website or downloaded. The guide explains the benefits of flex circuits, the design process and optimum design options. You'll learn how flex circuits work, how to build a flex circuit mock-up and how to obtain a mechanical sample based on your mock-up. In addition to the Guide, a Prototype Flex Circuit Design Kit is also available. If you need technical assistance, help with specifications, operating conditions, or application data; a Minco engineer is just a click away in the Minco Engineer2Engineer Community. You can also phone 763-571-3121 for more information. About Minco Worldwide Headquarters: 7300 Commerce Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55432 U.S.A. ### | ||
published date: 10-01-2009 |
Principles of Resistance Thermometry White Paper
Learn the principles and applications of RTDs and thermistors. Minneapolis, Minn., September 28, 2009 —Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, is offering a free downloadable white paper titled Resistance Thermometry: Principles and Applications of Resistance Thermometers and Thermistors. If you are a design engineer who is wants to learn more about the consistency, accuracy and stability of these temperature sensors, this white paper is for you. This paper shows you how to calibrate temperature-reading instruments by performing calculations regarding resistance and temperature characteristics. Learn what factors can influence the temperature/resistance ratio such as element types, leadwire resistance, electrical noise, vibration, self-heating, and exposure to temperatures at or beyond the endpoint of a specified range. A perfect complement to this white paper is the 163-page Sensors & Instruments Solutions Guide; a free guide that will show you how to define your temperature sensing requirements and choose the best sensor. This handy, easy-to-use guide will also help you determine what sensing technology is best, show you how to compare sensor alternatives and help you obtain parts for testing and prototyping sensors. In addition to the Guide, a Non-Invasive Sensors Design Kit is also available. If you need technical assistance, help with specifications, operating conditions, or application data; a Minco engineer is just a click away in the Minco Engineer2Engineer Community. You can also phone 763-571-3121 for more information. About Minco Worldwide Headquarters: 7300 Commerce Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55432 U.S.A. ### | ||
published date: 10-01-2009 |
Companies Work Together to Promote Anti-microbial Products
Menomonee Falls, WI: ATL (Ad Tape & Label Co. Inc.) is pleased to announce a joint venture with Eversharp Products, Franklin Park, IL, using Eversharp's Samaritan Shield technology. Samaritan Shield anti-microbials utilize Nano-Silver Technology, which stops the growth and migration of bacteria on a product's surface. Eversharp Products has been a leader in the development of anti-microbial surface treatment for ten years. Eversharp develops products in medical, office supply, and consumer use. ATL specializes in security labels, multi-panel booklet labels, and custom medical die cut components. ATL is FDA Registered and cGMP Compliant to 21 CFR 210, 211, and 820. For more information, visit www.atlco.com and www.eversharpproducts.com. | ||
published date: 09-22-2009 |
Silbrade® Silicone Hose Handles Pressure Applications and Temperature Extremes
Braid Reinforcement Enhances Capabilities
Flexible Silbrade hose is reinforced for higher pressure applications and resistant to temperature variations. Its construction — open mesh polyester braiding incorporated within walls of silicone tubing — enables its use in pressure applications that unreinforced tubing often cannot handle. Silbrade’s construction also allows excellent bend radii and restricted space usage without impeding flow. The hose handles steady or fluctuating temperatures between –80°F and 350°F (–62°C and 176°C). Silicone hose has long been used in the medical field, as it meets that industry's requirements for non-toxicity. Its other properties make it well suited for industries such as food and beverage, chemical, appliance, computer, and more recently, alternative energy. Silbrade is made from FDA-sanctioned ingredients and is listed by the National Sanitation Foundation for use with food equipment materials (NSF 51). It is odorless, tasteless, unaltered by the effects of weather, and generally exhibits inertness toward U.V., radiation, and ozone. Silbrade is a peroxide-cured product manufactured in a controlled environment for cleanliness. The hose is stocked in nine sizes from 1/8" through 1" I.D.; other sizes are available through custom order. Additional customization includes cut-to-length pieces, colors, and hardnesses. Medical-grade Silbrade is stocked, as well as unreinforced silicone tubing and silicone suction hose. A platinum-cured version is available through NewAge's AdvantaPure® products division. For more information on Silbrade silicone hose, contact the Fluid Transfer Specialists® at NewAge Industries, Inc., 145 James Way, Southampton, PA 18966; phone 800-50-NEWAGE (800-506-3924) or 215-526-2300; fax 800-837-1856 or 215-526-2190; e-mail: info@newageindustries.com: or view the product-specific web page at http://www.newageindustries.com/slbrd.asp About NewAge Industries and AdvantaPure The AdvantaPure division of NewAge Industries specializes in clean products for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, food, beverage, chemical, and cosmetic industries. All products are manufactured, stored, and shipped using the cleanest methods possible to ensure unsurpassed product purity. # # # Silbrade®, NewAge®, AdvantaPure®, and "Fluid Transfer Specialists®" are registered trademarks of NewAge® Industries, Inc. | ||
published date: 09-21-2009 |
Southampton, PA — Silbrade silicone hose from NewAge® Industries offers a unique combination of performance properties for fluid transfer applications. Typical uses include chemical feed, bottle filling, deionized water transfer, food handling, beverage service, viscous material handling, laboratory, resin feeds, and adhesive lines. It is also used as protective jacketing.Carl Zeiss IMT introduces new ACCTeePro integrated software for surface finish, form and geometry
MAPLE GROVE/Minnesota/USA – September 14, 2009. "We look forward to introducing this to the North American market at this year's Quality Expo," says Marty Morgan, Carl Zeiss Business Manager for SF&G. "With support from Carl Zeiss IMT and our customers, Accretech, developed the ACCTeePro software for SF&G, and we are very excited to have this available and ready to show." The ACCTeePro software, which will replace the TiMS software, will have many valuable benefits for customers. "What's key for customers is the new user interface with its simple “all in the document” one screen viewing," states Morgan. "There is a significant improvement between the simplicity and ease of use, for both manual and CNC programming that you will find in this new software." Important upgrades and key benefits for users include:
We expect the new ACCTeePro software to position Carl Zeiss as the industry leader in the surface finish, roundness and contour measurement, similar to our popular and revolutionary CMM based CALYPSO software. For information on purchasing or upgrading to ACCTeePro software, please contact Carl Zeiss IMT at 1-800-327-9735. For more information, please contact: September 2009 Headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany, Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH is a member of the Carl Zeiss Group. It is the global leader in CNC coordinate measuring machines and complete, multi-dimensional metrology solutions for a wide variety of industrial sectors. Approximately 1,800 employees at three manufacturing locations and more than 100 sales and service centers serve customers around the world. Carl Zeiss is a globally leading international group of companies in the optical and optoelectronic industry. In fiscal year 2007/08 (ended 30 September), the Carl Zeiss Group, which is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, generated revenues totaling EUR 2,731 million. The Carl Zeiss Group has approximately 13,000 employees, including more than 8,000 in Germany. Further information is available at www.zeiss.com and www.zeiss.com/imt. | ||
published date: 09-15-2009 |
Unicep Packaging, Inc. (UPI) names Lisa Hawkins as Director of Quality
Sandpoint, Idaho, September 14, 2009 — Unicep Packaging, Inc. (UPI) announced, today, that Lisa Hawkins has joined the UPI management team as Director of Quality. Hawkins, who was previously at Celeste Contract Packaging, brings over 24 years of experience in all phases of medical device and pharmaceutical quality and regulatory affairs to UPI. Hawkins primary role at UPI will be overseeing all regulatory compliance programs and directing the internal audit process, including GMP audits of the production facility. She will also lead the external audit process including FDA, ISO 9000 and customer audits. "My goals are to enhance UPI's current compliance plan to ensure that we maintain the highest level of regulatory compliance and compliance to customer requirements and specifications," said Hawkins, "Key areas will include validation, discrepancy identification and reporting, training, and batch record flow." About UPI Formed in 1991 by Dr. John Snedden, Unicep Packaging, Inc. is a privately held company that began as a contract packager of cost effective unit dose packaging for dental materials. Within their FDA registered and ISO9001:2008 compliant facility, UPI has developed proprietary machinery and methods for producing the patented MicroDose® and Twist-Tip™ dispensers. Today, with locations in Sandpoint, Idaho and Liberty Lake, Washington, UPI also provides non-sterile contract packaging and mixing for gels, liquids, lotions, and emulsions for oral healthcare, IVD, OTC / Rx, cosmetic and nutraceutical markets. From formulation development to mixing, filling and packaging, UPI can provide a turnkey solution for any customer requirement. For more information about Unicep Packaging, Inc., please visit www.unicep.com or call 800.354.9396. | ||
published date: 09-14-2009 |
Power Cords for International Applications
Globtek, Inc. | ||
published date: 09-10-2009 |
Detachable Power Cords for International Applications GlobTek's 2 Conductor IEC 320/C7 International Detachable Power Cordsets. These cordsets are approved to international safety agency requirements. Designs are available in various lengths, cable types, conductor gauge, termination, and jacket color. Cordsets are ideal for Portable Equipment, Communication, Video, Consumer Electronics, Instrumentation and Home Use Medical Equipment. N. American, European, Australian & British cordsets are available from stock. VERY low cost make these cordsets perfect for OEM requirements. International Power Supplies are also available.New Paso Robles Building
12 August 2009 – Paso Robles, CA — Specialty Silicone Fabricators announces a new 100,000 square foot clean room manufacturing and office building to be constructed on our existing campus near the Paso Robles airport. The new facility will help the company meet the growing demand for silicone medical device components and support new innovative processing technologies. Construction will begin in October of this year with completion in September of 2010. The building has been designed to meet LEED environmental standards and also be architecturally significant. The general contractor is Specialty Construction of San Luis Obispo, California and the architect is Jim Goodman Architects of San Juan Capistrano, California.
Headquartered in Paso Robles, Specialty Silicone Fabricators is a contract manufacturer serving almost exclusively the medical device industry. In addition to our Paso Robles facility we have manufacturing operations in Elk Rapids, Michigan and Tustin, California, employing a total of 300 talented, experienced people. Despite the limitations of our current 3 building campus, we've built a world class reputation for innovation and quality that Paso Robles can be proud of. To meet the demands of the future, we must modernize and expand. "While other companies often move to lower wage countries to expand, we recognize the value of the knowledge, experience, and creativity of our employees and therefore plan on remaining a Paso Robles-based high technology company," says Kevin Meyer, President of Specialty Silicone Fabricators.
As our name suggests, we specialize in the fabrication of precision silicone components processed via molding, extrusion, sheeting, and dipping. These components are used in hundreds of life saving devices such as hydrocephalus shunts, pacemaker leads, and a device to hold the beating heart during surgery. We work with biomedical engineers who are designing neuro stimulation devices to treat Parkinson's Disease, pain, and even depression. Novel silicone membranes produced at SSF earlier this year are now used to grow islet cells that researchers believe, may hold the cure for certain types of diabetes. In 2009 SSF will provide product and services to over 160 medical device customers in 17 countries, ranging from new startups to the Fortune 20. For many companies, we are their sole source of mission critical components that may mean the difference between life and death. For more information please visit our website: www.ssfab.com Contact: Paul Mazelin, Marketing Manager | ||
published date: 09-10-2009 |
Brushless High Speed DC Motor
with 250 Watt power output
The motor measures at Ø25 x 84 mm and is rated for nominal voltage of 36 VDC and reaches a nominal torque of up to 42.2 mNm, nominal speed 61,600 rpm with efficiency above 93%. The motor-specific speed/torque gradient amounts to 44.9 rpm/mNm. This EC25 motor is particularly suitable for high speed spindle-driven applications, as required in medical technology (surgical power tools, dental drills, etc.) or machine tools (manufacture of optical lenses, fabrication of printed circuit boards, etc.). For fast-rotating applications, a friction-reduced, low-vibration operation over the entire speed range is necessary. This can only be achieved with high-precision balancing and preloaded ball bearings. www.maxonmotorusa.com or info@maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 09-10-2009 |
Maxon motor introduces the brushless EC 25. Designed for high speed applications of up to 70,000 rpm and has an extremely low vibration characteristic and minimized scale. The motor is equipped with preloaded ball bearings and a two pole Neodymium permanent magnet.Tegra Medical Unveils GENESIS Tech Center to Reduce Time to Market
About Tegra Medical | ||
published date: 09-09-2009 |
FRANKLIN, MA—Tegra Medical is pleased to announce the formal opening of the GENESIS Tech Center (GTC). Housed in 18,000 sq. ft. of refurbished space at Tegra's new headquarters in Franklin, MA, the GTC will address the medical device industry's need for speed. The organization will have its own leadership team, customer service, engineering resources and dedicated equipment. Staffed with 35 employees and a wide assortment of equipment, the GTC will focus exclusively on assisting customers with their product development needs, specifically: inventory of commonly used raw materials for minimally invasive products, design for manufacturability, prototyping and pilot production. Within the GENESIS Tech Center, there are three distinct offerings:
"The GENESIS Tech Center is the answer to feedback we've heard consistently over the years," said Tom Burns, V.P. Business Development. "Lots of suppliers talk about supporting product launches, but Tegra Medical is backing it up with some of our best talent, significant infrastructure and a culture intent upon solving customer problems fast. The GTC will be a stand-alone entity to avoid the conflicts inherent in trying to share resources with regular production operations." Mike Treleaven will be leading this unit as Director GTC. Mike is a dynamic leader who brings a passion for customer satisfaction and a long history of developing innovative solutions to manufacturing challenges. Prior to this role, Mike managed operations and program management at Accu-Met Laser, well known for its short lead times and effective problem solving. Mike also spent ten years at Micro Group, Inc. in various engineering and operations roles before joining Accu-Met. He began his medical device career with Tecomet, then a division of Thermo Electron.Qosina Recognized Again on the "Inc. 5000" List
Edgewood, NY August 26, 2009 - The editors of Inc. Magazine have included Qosina Corporation, parent company of Qosmedix®, on their 2009 "Inc. 5000" List, which acknowledges the top 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the United States. This is Qosina's third time on the List including the "Inc. 500" in 1989 and "Inc. 5000" in 2007. Founder and President of the Long Island, NY-based Qosina and Qosmedix, Stuart Herskovitz said, "We are grateful to our customers, suppliers and especially the entire Qosina and Qosmedix teams for enabling us to increase sales each year since 1980, when we first founded Qosina." Mr. Herskovitz added, "As a young company in 1989, we were proud to be recognized by the "Inc. 500" list. Since then, our strategy has been to expand our product offering by providing the latest component designs and materials to meet our customer's needs. We are pleased with this third recognition by Inc. Magazine, as one of the fastest growing American companies." Qosina is an ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 registered worldwide supplier of thousands of stock and custom-made OEM disposable components including: connectors, luers, caps, clamps, adapters, stopcocks, valves, spikes, syringes and tubing. Qosina's subsidiary, Qosmedix, is a leading global supplier of medical quality disposables to the cosmetic, skin care, nail, spa and salon industries. To be eligible, "Inc. 5000" companies must be U.S.-based and independent, with four full calendar years of revenue generation. "Inc. 5000" companies like Qosina represent the fastest growing private companies in America and are part of the expanding power of the entrepreneurial economy. Inc. is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies. Contact: QOSINA | ||
published date: 09-09-2009 |
After 50 Years, GML Changing Company Name to Innovize
GML, Inc. announced that it is changing its name to "Innovize," September 1, 2009. Innovize Owner and CEO, John Ledy, whose father Scott Ledy founded the company in 1958, notes there are no changes in the ownership or management structure. "The GML name has earned a strong reputation in the market and served us well for over 50 years. As we celebrate our 50 year mark, we've decided to embrace a new name to carry us forward for the next 50 years and beyond. The Innovize name is more memorable, and it signals our differentiation and value in the custom development and manufacturing market." Innovize is a FDA-registered and ISO 9001:2000-certified partner for innovative solutions in personal care, patient care, diagnostics, and electronics markets. From product concept and development through packaging, Innovize produces subassembly components and turnkey disposable devices. Development support capabilities include design validation, process development, materials sourcing, cost targeting, prototyping, clinical trials, inventory systems and supply chain management. Manufacturing capabilities include slitting; laminating; die and laser cutting; printing; and clean room/dry room production and packaging. Dave Jessen ### | ||
published date: 09-03-2009 |
Insight Exhibiting at Booth #4433 at MD&M Midwest, September 22-24 in Chicago
September 2, 2009 (Chicago) – Insight will be exhibiting at Booth #4433 at MD&M Midwest in Rosemont, IL (near Chicago) at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, September 22-24, 2009. Insight staff will be there to showcase the company's capabilities and recent projects and case studies and answer questions about the breadth of medical work Insight has completed. Insight Product Development has been a design and development partner to medical device companies for 20 years. During this time, Insight has worked in virtually every product category from high volume disposables to installed capital equipment. Insight's success with medical products stems from the team's extensive and thorough user research that is translated into effective and appropriate design. Our years of experience and our diverse teams allow us to navigate through the often complex medical product development process to produce safe, effective solutions. Insight has worked on more than 200 medical projects in virtually every product category and specialty. For more information on Insight, please visit www.insightpd.com/medical. # # # | ||
published date: 09-03-2009 |
Sil-Pro Announces Enhanced Medical Silicone Tube Extrusion Capabilities – To Exhibit At Medical Design & Manufacturing Show October 21 - 22 At Booth 1700
These new systems provide medical OEM's with new design options for precision accuracy, repeatable quality and fast delivery. Extruded silicone tube sizes range from ID/OD of .020 to 1.0 inch of single lumen, multi-lumen, solid rope and rod tubing. Precise dimensional control of the tubing throughout the part run is ensured by closed loop feedback from a Zumbach laser micrometer. Also available are processes for overmolding onto silicone tube and bonding silicone tubular parts to plastic and metal parts using medical grade adhesives.
"Our new capabilities will give customers a boost with accelerated time-to-market projects and provide many cost-effective benefits," reports Brian Higgins, Sil-Pro Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We continue to expand our facilities with new technology to provide medical device companies with the quality and turnaround time they require." Sil-Pro is a 100-employee company with ISO 9001:2000 certification providing CAD product development, mold design, and build and class 10,000 clean room molding and extrusion. These capabilities are augmented by fully automated molding, assembly, and packaging cells. Interested in more information? See Sil-Pro at the Medical Design and Manufacturing Show, October 21 – 22 at Booth 1700. Or call 763-972-9206 for more information. See at www.sil-pro.com Email: bhiggins@sil-pro.com Or write to Sil-Pro, 740 Seventh Street, Delano, Minnesota 55328. Fax: 763-972-2096. ### * Medical grade and implant grade silicones from NuSil, Dow Corning, Momentive and Wacker Silicones | ||
published date: 08-12-2009 |
Delano, Minnesota: Sil-Pro Silicone Professionals announce a major expansion of its medical silicone tube extrusion capabilities.* New systems provide in-line close tolerance cutting of silicone tubing directly from the extrusion machine as well as in-line spooling and cut-to-length from a spool.
Pad printing on silicone tubing of identification marks for positioning purposes and/or lot traceability is also available. Optional color characteristics of the tubing includes clear, translucent, opaque and colored versions.Avicenna Technology Features Mechanical Tube Cutting
Raw materials can be in the form of either stick pieces or bulk spool. The particular materials Avicenna cuts include heat-shrink, urethanes, polyimide and silicone. One of the distinctive benefits of utilizing Avicenna's mechanical tube cutting is the ability to attain tight tolerance tube components with no capital expenditure, factory overhead, and raw material inventory. Avicenna uses Laser, Mechanical and Organizational Energy combined with sophisticated automation to prototype, plan, and manufacture products made from a wide range of materials. As an innovative manufacturer and solution provider, Avicenna bridges the technology-solution gap between customer ideas and commercialized products – products that change the way we live. # # # | ||
published date: 08-12-2009 |
Montevideo, Minn. / 12 August 2009 – Avicenna Technology, an innovative manufacturer primarily serving the medical device industry with Laser, Mechanical, and Organizational Energy services, features mechanical tube cutting. Avicenna’s mechanical machining services include polymer tube cutting, which offers a high-volume solution for medical device manufacturers seeking to transform raw material to custom components. Applications range from catheter assembly components and marker bands to strain relief jackets and spacers. Rollomatic launches new Bur 5-axis CNC Bur Grinder Nano5
The inception of this machine into the market was driven by the medical and dental industry for production grinding of medical tools, dental burs and other possible orthopedic applications. The machine has been designed around the demand for shortest possible cycle times, the best precision ever achieved and high standards on flexibility and software adaptations. The machine features an integrated automatic pick-and-place loader which is ideal for medical parts. This machine has an extensive and well-proven software package called BurCalc which has been created and up-dated by Rollomatic over the last 12 years. This software allows control over the entire cutting geometry on burs which has been a challenge to even the most experienced bur manufacturer, particularly in a production environment where speed and flexibility are two crucial factors.The Nano5 can grind burs in stainless steel, high speed, carbide or two-piece construction. It includes full automation with features for unattended operation. The Nano5 machine capability coves burs in the metal cutting, aluminum-cut, dental, laboratory and surgical industries. Rollomatic continues to provide outstanding service and support from our U.S. headquarters in Mundelein, IL, as well as our satellite office on the west coast. For more information, visit us at: www.rollomaticusa.com
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published date: 08-12-2009 |
Mundelein, IL. August 12th, 2009. Rollomatic Inc., a subsidiary of Rollomatic SA, Switzerland, is a manufacturer of precision CNC tool grinding machines. Rollomatic is pleased to announce that an addition to the successful range GrindSmart series of CNC tool grinding machine has been launched. The Nano5 is a 5-axis CNC bur grinding machine which is ideal for the production grinding of medical and dental burs.It's Time to Come Clean with New EMC Solutions
New 3-Phase ECO Line Filters are Efficient and Economic
The ECO series filters are built to be used with 480 VAC installations and are available in single or two stage versions. The FMAC ECO single stage filter is available from 16 - 150A. The FMBC ECO two stage filter possesses a broader attenuation band with a leakage current of just 5 mA, making it ideal for use in installations equipped with residual current circuit breakers. They can be mounted lengthwise or upright, providing additional flexibility in design. Among various applications the FMAC and FMBC ECO are suited for drive systems, such as material handling and conveyors, electrical or renewable energy equipment installations, uninterruptible power systems (UPS) for telecommunication, computer and data center systems as well as medical equipment. The FMAC and FMBC ECO filters are pending cURus and ENEC approvals. All versions are available from stock for small quantities of 1-5 and larger quantities have a lead time of 8-10 weeks. They are packaged in single units. More information on the FMAC/FMBC ECO 3-Phase Filters can be found on the Schurter website at http://www.schurterinc.com/new_emc. For sales and product information contact Cora Umlauf at 800 848-2600 or info@schurterinc.com. About Schurter Inc. | ||
published date: 08-11-2009 |
Santa Rosa, California, July 31, 2009 — Schurter is pleased to announce its new 3-phase line filters, series FMAC ECO and FMBC ECO. The new 3-phase ECO series filters are designed to solve EMC problems efficiently and cost effectively. The filters are produced without potting compound, making them less costly and lighter weight than conventional filters.PDT Joins Continua Health Alliance
PDT Joins Continua to Improve Quality of Personal Healthcare Lake Zurich, Illinois – August 10, 2009 – Product Development Technologies, Inc. (PDT) is pleased to announce that it has joined Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry alliance of the finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare. PDT joins the more than 200 leading technology, medical device and healthcare industry member companies of Continua, who are dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal health solutions; with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters independence, empowers individuals and provides the opportunity for truly personalized health and wellness management. "We are excited to work with PDT. Their background in both medical and telecom product development will help make the Continua vision a reality," said Rick Cnossen, Continua president and chairman of the Board of Directors. "The addition of PDT to Continua builds upon our current growth and momentum in the connected health industry." Continua Health Alliance has developed technical design guidelines, and established a product certification program, to promote interoperable solutions that provide new ways to address the costs of providing personal telehealth systems. Such accomplishments dramatically affect the quality of life of millions of people worldwide by providing patients, caregivers and healthcare providers with the products and services to proactively manage the health and fitness of individuals, improving the overall quality of life and healthcare, while lowering costs. PDT, in collaboration with Continua Health Alliance members, will help support Continua's mission to establish a system of interoperable personal telehealth solutions that foster independence and empowers people and organizations to better manage health and wellness. About Continua Health Alliance About PDT # # # | ||
published date: 08-10-2009 |
Customers Design Reid Supply's New Web Site
Reid Supply Company, a leading supplier of industrial and technical parts and free CAD images to engineers, technicians and others has enhanced their web site with direct input from their customers. John Carrier, the company's President, says the new ReidSupply.com is all about ease of use with a new intuitive smarter search engine and a de-emphasis on marketing. The new site takes the customer exactly where they want to go faster and easier. Plus, the new site offers a Knowledge Base for engineers, machinists, hobbyists and scholars. Their repository of information features the free CAD library, a large collection of reference books, a free "Ask An Expert" feature, a free e-newsletter, free Resource Guides, special requests and more. Customers Design Reid Supply's New Web Site B2B
Muskegon, Michigan, July 7, 2009 – What Does It Take to Build a World-Class e-Commerce Web Site? According to the web services team at Reid Supply Company, a Michigan-based global distributor of industrial parts, components and supplies, all it takes is getting direct input from many customers, along with some savvy data managers, creative web designers and clever web developers to incorporate the customers' desires. In a continuing effort to improve the customer experience, the web development team at Reid Supply enlisted the help of long-time patrons to understand their ecommerce needs for industrial products. What they found was good news. "We discovered that we were on the right track with our developmental planning for the new ReidSupply.com," said Greg Palmer, Reid Supply Company's Director of Marketing. "In a survey sent out to thousands of customers, we learned that they wanted a simpler and more direct shopping experience. That was exactly what we were planning, and that is exactly what we've built." Part of that simpler experience involved Reid eliminating most of the marketing messages on the site. Their customers wanted better search results with less "marketing clutter" to get in the way of buying the products they wanted. On top of this, they added vital on-line account management for the customer. "We conducted a deep survey of Reid Customers and frankly, discovered a few problems," said Palmer. "We found out, through direct and indirect contact, that users wanted a better, smarter, search tool; they wanted an easier way to manage their on-line accounts; and they wanted a site that was clear of marketing clutter so that they could find the products that they needed faster." The Reid team realized from the survey that they had some pretty serious remodeling to do. Utilizing best web practices; smart data use; and some very creative programming and designing, they got to work. They determined the new site would need a lot of web images because they wanted it to be image-driven, as well as data searchable. The Reid team utilized all of their print catalog images, took photos of missing images, and utilized computer aided design (CAD) drawings, which are free to the customer, to give the site added functionality. According to the company, their new web site is much more than better data; an improved search experience was number one on the customers' request list. "The first thing we considered was how we could create a simpler and smarter search app that delivered what customers were looking for," said John Carrier, President of Reid Supply Company. "Our new Smarter Search function is very intuitive in the sense that as you are typing, it is auto-suggesting in a drop-down window. This can be very handy if you don't know exactly what you want. The search engine can be very helpful." Reid also simplified the look of the web site and virtually eliminated the marketing hype. There are still specials available like the Clearance Center, Deal of the Day, and Savings Spotlights, but they are only visible from a tab or on the right rail of the site. "It takes a great deal of planning to make a site this vast work," said Carrier. "It's an interesting marriage between our ERP system, our search engine, our database servers, our programming platform and a lot of programming to make it all work. We have a great web team to bring the marriage together." By all indications, Reid customers are delighted. Early responders have said that the new web site is more user friendly, and more importantly, more effective in guiding the user to the exact item they need much faster. "We didn't need an economic downturn to tell us that we needed to give the Customer exactly what they wanted," said Carrier. "We've always believed that and that is why our team is constantly gearing up with new technologies to improve the Customer's experience. There will always be new features that our Customers will ask for when shopping on-line and even now, having just launched the new site, we continue tweaking and improving the functionality daily." Reid is on the cutting edge of technology and offers free CAD drawings on more than 90% of everything on their web site, ReidSupply.com. "We have over 40,000 free CAD drawings that anyone can download," says Palmer. "This is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, free CAD database in the industrial supply industry. It would be very beneficial for an engineer or technician in any industry to come to ReidSupply.com and simply download the CAD part they need for their engineering designs." The company's revamped web site offers a Knowledge Base for engineers, machinists, hobbyists and scholars. This repository of information features the free CAD library, a large collection of reference books, a free "Ask An Expert" feature, a free e-newsletter, free Resource Guides, special requests and more. Reid Supply Company, which started selling industrial supplies in 1948, serves virtually every industry with products ranging from clamps, to power transmission, to structural systems, to hardware and everything in between. "Our exclusive 12 color-coded category classification is great for folks who want to locate specific items with minimum effort," says Palmer. "We have organized all of our products into these 12 areas and color-coded them for easy reference and access." Reid's product offering features 12 color-coded categories as follows:
"We are always looking toward the future for our Customers," says Carrier. "As technology changes, so will we. But one thing will never change here, our rallying cry, 'while others may be bigger, nobody will serve the Customer better' which is really all about us staying at the forefront of serving everyone who shops the new ReidSupply.com." ###
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published date: 08-07-2009 |
Helix Medical Announces Scientific Injection Molding for Silicone
Gloucester, MA — June 16, 2009 — Helix Medical, LLC, a global manufacturer for the medical device, health care, pharmaceutical, biotech, and IVD industries, offers scientific injection molding (SIM) methodology for Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) molding at its medical device manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts and California. Scientific injection molding combines product design, tool design, material selection, and process development from the polymer point of view which allows control of the critical process parameters to ensure that parts are optimally produced with zero defects. This methodology has been employed for some time in thermoplastic injection molding but is relatively new to LSR molding. By applying the SIM process to LSR products Helix is able to develop processes where potential defects are identified upfront, before the validation stage, therefore saving clients time and money. The benefits of SIM include higher yields, lower material consumption, and increased process robustness driven by reliable documentation and data collection. The application of these principles delivers better flow control, fewer visual defects, and increases the part integrity thus delivering a lower cost which is passed on to Helix customers. "Scientific injection molding allows us to roduce consistent product quality through process repeatability from machine to machine, part to part, and set-up to set-up," said Edward Callahan, Vice President/General Manager, Helix Medical – Gloucester Operations. "This methodology has allowed us to provide the documented standardized processes and the quality assurance required to support our customers' regulatory requirements. We deliver superior value for our customers and partners by investing the time upfront during the development stage." For more information on Helix Medical – Gloucester Operations and scientific injection molding please contact Edward Callahan, Vice President/General Manager at (978) 281-2023. About Helix Medical, LLC Medical manufacturing capabilities include LIM, compression/transfer molding, insert and two-shot molding, as well as extrusion, assembly, packaging and sterilization. In addition to its custom manufacturing operations, Helix Medical also manufactures the proprietary HelixMark® brand of platinum-cured silicone tubing and fluid handling components for the pharmaceutical, biotech and IVD industries. ### Media Contact: | ||
published date: 08-06-2009 |
Perfecseal Philadelphia Registration to ISO 13485:2003 Completes Registration of All Perfecseal Facilities in the Continental U.S.
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (August 4, 2009) Perfecseal, a Bemis Company and global market leader in the medical device and pharmaceutical packaging industries, announces registration to the ISO 13485:2003 Medical Device Quality Management System for its manufacturing facility in Philadelphia, PA. This completes the registration of all four Perfecseal facilities in the continental U.S. to this new standard, including: Philadelphia, PA; Mankato, MN; Oshkosh, WI; and New London, WI. ISO 13485:2003 specifies requirements for quality management systems in which organizations demonstrate the ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet both customer and regulatory requirements. According to Matt Boswell, Director of Quality, "Perfecseal is in the process of upgrading our global ISO certifications from ISO 9001:2000 to ISO 13485:2003. We have plans for all locations worldwide to be certified to this new ISO standard in 2009." A global leader in the healthcare and pharmaceutical packaging markets, Perfecseal specializes in the manufacture of co-extruded films, laminated films, flexible forming films, foil barrier laminations, pouches, bags, thermoformed trays, lids, labels, heat seal coated Tyvek® and heat seal coated medical grades of paper. Perfecseal, a division of the Bemis Company, has facilities located in Oshkosh and New London, WI; Mankato, MN; Philadelphia, PA; San Juan, PR; Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Selangor, Malaysia; and Suzhou, China. Please visit our website at www.perfecseal.com. Bemis Company is a major supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials used by leading food, consumer products, manufacturing, and other companies worldwide. Founded in 1858, the Company reported 2008 net sales of $3.8 billion. The Company's flexible packaging business has a strong technical base in polymer chemistry, film extrusion, coating and laminating, printing and converting. The Company's pressure sensitive materials business specializes in adhesive technologies. Headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, Bemis employs about 15,800 individuals in 61 manufacturing facilities in 11 countries around the world. More information about the Company is available at its website, www.bemis.com. ®Tyvek is a DuPont registered trademark. | ||
published date: 08-05-2009 |
MedVenture Technology gives precision metal fabricator award for excellence in quality and service.
Anoka, Minn., July 27, 2009—Precision metal stamping company Meier Tool & Engineering (MTE) is the recipient of the Recognition of Excellence Award given by their customer MedVenture Technology. According to MedVenture spokesperson Shannon Elder, the award is given to suppliers who earn an "A" Rating for four consecutive quarters. Only ten suppliers earn this honor. While quality and customer service are the driving criteria, MedVenture Technology also considers on-time delivery, zero defects, accurate documentation, production traceability and technical support in their scoring. Ms. Elder expresses her gratitude when she states, "Our thanks to you and your team for your performance as a MedVenture Technology supplier. Please take pride in knowing the important role you play in helping make our company a success." About MTE To learn more about Meier Tool & Engineering's capability, visit http://www.meiertool.com or call toll-free at 1-888-225-4755. About MedVenture Technology ### | ||
published date: 08-04-2009 |
Fotofab Enhances Stamping Capabilities.
New 4-Slide Equipment is Latest Addition to Capabilities List Chicago, IL – July 30, 2009. Fotofab, a leading supplier of precision thin-metal parts, has further expanded its capabilities with new 4-slide presses. Fotofab is known for its Chemical Etching capabilities, making custom metal parts in as little as 1 day without high tooling costs. Fotofab has also been a preferred supplied of stamped parts for decades. These new presses add to the range of designs and quantities Fotofab can produce. While chemical etching is often an ideal production solution, there are also situations where a hard tool provides an economic advantage. By offering both options, Fotofab is able to evaluate each customer's unique requirements and offer the best solution in consideration of lead time, cost, and tolerances. In many cases, the ideal solution is a combination of the two. The Fotofab process offers the speed and flexibility for the beginning of a part's lifecycle while a stamping tool offers the low unit cost needed at very high volumes. Customers appreciate the option of having a single supplier from start to finish, knowing that all parts have passed through the same quality controls. Fotofab continues to offer a complete list of value added services including plating, soldering, tape & reel packaging, passivation, and many more. Fotofab is ISO 9001:2000 and ITAR registered and representatives are ready to assist with any size project. A typical quote is turned around in less than 24 hours. Contact Fotofab at 773-463-6211 or send a print via email to sales@fotofab.com. About Fotofab Founded in 1967, Fotofab continues to refine the photochemical machining process, (also known as chemical etching or milling) to produce custom precision metal parts in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner. A veteran supplier to the aerospace, automotive, defense, electronics, telecommunications, and medical manufacturing industries, Fotofab is the leading supplier of precision metal parts including RF/EMI shields, electrical contacts, screens, connector housings, and application engineered components and assemblies. #### | ||
published date: 08-04-2009 |
Qosina High Flow Stopcocks With Precision 90E Handle
Qosina stocks an extensive inventory of luers, syringes, caps, connectors, tips, sheaths and other components to meet your medical needs. Call our Customer Service Specialists to obtain our latest catalog, request a sample, or place an order at +1 (631) 242-3000, fax +1 (631) 242-3230 or e mail info@qosina.com. Visit us at www.qosina.com to see our latest products. Custom sourcing service is available through our knowledgeable specialists using Qosina's extensive resources. Qosina is a worldwide supplier of thousands of stock and custom-made OEM disposable components including connectors, luers, caps, clamps, adapters, stopcocks, valves, swabs, spikes, syringes and tubing. Qosina operates an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 registered facility. Contact: QOSINA | ||
published date: 08-04-2009 |
Edgewood, NY, June 26, 2009 — High-flow stopcocks with 90-degree pivot handles provide two-way precision alignment eliminating free flow. Qosina polycarbonate stopcocks are equipped with two female luer locks and an acrylic male spin lock. The 0.110 inch handle through-hole provides higher flow rates for rapid infusion. The blue HDPE handled stopcock (Part # 99752) offers the flow path rotation from female luer lock to female luer lock and the yellow HDPE handled stopcock (Part # 99753) offers specific rotation from the male spin lock to the female luer lock. Both stopcocks are clearly marked with a longer "OFF" handle to facilitate flow path configurations.Distribution Packaging and Testing: Design for Distribution - Proven Methods for Reducing Costs and Damages is the title of a training course at DDL Headquarters.
DDL, Leader in Medical Device Package, Product and Material Testing, is hosting a Training Course for Equipment Reliability Institute, this fall at its Minnesota Location! MINNEAPOLIS, MN - August 4, 2009, — http://www.testedandproven.com/ — DDL, the leader in medical device package, product and material testing, has confirmed that it will host a training course, presented by Equipment Reliability Institute, for industry professionals looking to minimize the costs of supply chain logistics through wiser product and packaging design and better test methods. The three day program will focus on reducing the costs of package design and distribution. Key topics discussed during the three days include: Hazards of distributions "The program, which is intended for packaging engineers, supply chain managers and product engineers, is designed to give attendees a better understanding of the costs and common design consequences behind their packaging decisions," Wayne Tustin, President of Equipment Reliability Institute, said. The program will be presented by, Kevin Howard, a leading expert in the field of distribution packaging and testing. During his 17 years at Hewlett-Packard, Howard designed several new concepts that successfully combined the interests of packaging, product design, supply chain, procurement, customer assurance and testing into a unified approach that lands the lowest costs with the highest quality possible. "I take pride in the depth and breadth of my packaging knowledge, supply chain logistics, material handling methodologies, and dynamics testing," Howard said. "We are very excited to open our doors and give attendees an opportunity to expand their knowledge on distribution testing and package design," Scott Levy, Packaging Engineer at DDL said. "We are always eager to find ways to promote better practices within the package testing industry." The training course, which is scheduled for Oct. 13 - 15, 2009, will be held at DDL's headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn. Course information: Please visit the Equipment Reliability Institute website at www.equipment-reliability.com for more information about the course and to register. About Equipment Reliability Institute About DDL | ||
published date: 08-04-2009 |
Product Development Technologies (PDT) and Perkins Honored for Design Anticipated to Improve the Lives of the Blind and Visually Impaired for Years to Come
The Next Generation™ Perkins/APH Brailler Wins Acclaim from BusinessWeek
The IDEA program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. The 2009 jury includes 20 world-renowned designers and design thinkers who spent weeks previewing entries online and two-and-a-half days of intense, face-to-face evaluation and debate on IDEA. The IDEA 2009 judging was based on a product's innovation, benefit to the user, benefit to society and natural ecology, benefit to the client, visual appeal and appropriate aesthetics, usability testing and internal factors and methods. The Next Generation™ Perkins/APH Brailler® excellence lies in its potential to be a life-changing product, one determining the difference between a life of literacy or illiteracy; a life with or without employment; a life full of productive independence or codependence. In the United States, 70% of citizens who are blind are unemployed or underemployed. However, 80% of those who use braille are employed. In other words, literacy reverses the numbers. This is a very real scenario for people who are blind in the US and around the world. "One of the chief goals of re-designing the classic Perkins Brailler®," says Perkins Products General Manager David Morgan, "was to make this indispensable communication tool easier to carry and more convenient to use. The response we have had so far to the Next Generation™ Perkins Brailler is resoundingly positive. Lighter-weight materials plus the more comfortable handle design means that more braille users than ever can take the world's most ubiquitous braille writing tool wherever they want to use it. In other words, this design brings hard-copy braille into more places, more easily, for more people than ever thought possible." The award winning brailler came to fruition fifty seven years after the original Perkins Brailler was introduced by Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where both Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman studied. The partnership between Perkins Products, APH and PDT made the development of this uniquely challenging project possible. "Given the importance of this product to so many people, we were honored to participate in its development and are thrilled it's receiving this highly coveted recognition," said Mark Schwartz, PDT President. IDSA has been honoring design excellence via the IDEA Awards since 1980. About Perkins About PDT | ||
published date: 07-29-2009 |
Lake Zurich, Illinois – July 29, 2009 Product Development Technologies, Inc. (PDT), Perkins Products and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) have been honored in the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA®) sponsored by BusinessWeek, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), Target and Autodesk for the Next Generation™ Perkins/APH Brailler®. The IDEA competition is a celebration of the year's most innovative and exciting product and product concept designs and one of the world's most prestigious and recognizable design competitions. The brailler received a Silver award; out of 1631 entries, only 47 received this honor. The BusinessWeek IDEA report is on newsstands July 29.IQMS Launches Community Server For Customers 24/7 Online Portal Encourages Software Development and Collaboration
New community server highlights IQMS' unique approach to software development, where the focus is on customers and the exchange of ideas PASO ROBLES, CA –July 23, 2009 — IQMS, a leader in the design and development of manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, today announced the launch of its innovative online Community Server™, which substantially allows its customers to shape the future software development and provide feedback from the entire customer base to the submitting company. With IQMS Community Server, IQMS customers can see the development cycle of ERP solutions, new releases and modules and have up-to-date information on their own submissions. Community Server is the Web 2.0 version of IQMS' annual in-person user group conference, where customers discuss ideas and help lead software development. While most software companies work behind closed doors on new releases and even on solutions requested by their own customers, IQMS Community Server creates a 24/7 forum that actually opens up the development process and encourages customers to call out suggestions step-by-step. Additionally, as with many other perks, Community Server is free to all active IQMS customers. "Our software has never been designed in a vacuum," said Randy Flamm, president and CEO of IQMS. "One of the ways we stay current on industry trends is by listening to manufacturing experts - our customers. Instead of sitting back and waiting for our customers to come to us, we're coming to them and getting their feedback. With IQMS Community Server, we are emphasizing that our customers are essential in the development and improvement of our software. Essentially, this has increased our development staff by about 1,000 people overnight." Community Server demonstrates IQMS' unique approach to software development and its commitment to its customers. As such, IQMS has a 98 percent customer retention rate. "A hallmark of IQMS, which helps drive its record success, is the company's dedication to listening and working closely with its customers. The IQMS Community Server takes that customer intimacy to the next level," said Julie Fraser, president and principal industry analyst, Cambashi Inc. "The Community Server not only delivers unprecedented on-line visibility to progress on changes, it creates a mechanism for the customers themselves to suggest, refine and prioritize IQMS software enhancements. This is bound to accelerate important changes and keep customer satisfaction high." IQMS' community server is consistent with the company's customer-centric development model and differentiates it from other software companies. "Community Server provides the user community with an intuitive forum for exchanging ideas and proposing enhancements to the current software," said Eric D. Paules, vice president of Crescent Industries, Inc., a world-class contract manufacturer. "We especially appreciate the software development feature, which allows our company to collaborate with others companies when requesting software enhancements. Together, we can build a consensus of good ideas and a best-of-class solution that meets the needs of many and adds value to the entire user base." IQMS, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, continues to provide innovative solutions for its customers. This year, IQMS released a new version of its flagship product, Enterprise IQ 7.6.1, which includes more than 900 customer-driven enhancements. The company also debuted RackTruck, a customized ERP solution that combines inventory scanning, forklift mounted monitors and stocking location mapping for manufacturers. The customized ERP solution, created by the IQMS Automation Group utilizes forklift mounted monitors and scanners making companies leaner, more agile and competitive. About IQMS *Community Server is a trademark of Telligent. | ||
published date: 07-27-2009 |
Clippard Introduces New Rotary Valves
These new rotary valves are 4-way with 1/4" NPT ports. They are manually-operated 3-position closed center valves offering an operating pressure range of 0 to 150 psig and an operating temperature from 32 to 140°F. With a small footprint, this base mounted rotary valve offers flexibility for strategic locations. For complete details or to request a catalog, go to www.clippard.com/rotaryvalves-dl, or call 1-877-245-6247. Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc. # # # | ||
published date: 07-24-2009 |
Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc. introduces a new line of Rotary Air Valves.Clippard Introduces New Push/Pull Valves
These new spool valves are available in both 3- and 4- way configurations. Available in detent or momentary versions, these new valves provide the flexibility for unlimited applications. And, with an operating temperature of 32 to 140°F and an operating pressure of 0 to 115 psig, these new valves offer top notch performance where maximum performance and maximum value are demanded. For complete details or to request a catalog, go to www.clippard.com/pushpull-dl or call 1-877-245-6247. Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc. # # # | ||
published date: 07-24-2009 |
Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc., introduces a new line of manually-operated Push/Pull Valves.IQMS Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Growth and Stability
IQMS, A Pioneer in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Solutions, Has Experienced Company Growth for Twenty Years PASO ROBLES, CA – July 22, 2009 - IQMS, a leader in the design and development of manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, celebrates its 20th anniversary this week. The software company, which was founded to help meet the unique and varied needs of manufacturers in a rapidly changing global environment, has experienced company growth for two decades. Founded in southern California in 1989, IQMS moved to Paso Robles, CA in 1995 with a staff of seven employees. Since then, IQMS has grown to more than 100 employees with offices in Europe, China, Canada and most recently, the United Kingdom. Today, despite the recent effects of the down economy, IQMS continues to post profitability, and last year increased its customer accounts by double-digit percent. "As the ERP software industry evolves and consolidates, IQMS has continued to grow and deliver a world-class single-source solution that outperforms the best-of-breed software commonly found in the industry," says Randy Flamm, president and founder of IQMS. "Our anniversary marks our continuous commitment to bring innovation and customer service to manufacturing industries around the world. We are extremely proud of our company and are looking forward to many more years of ERP development." IQMS founders Randy and Nancy Flamm, developed the single-source solution ERP software solution to help manufacturers keep their business lean while growing their profit margins. IQMS's dedicated support to their customers has led them to an impressive 98 percent customer retention rate. "Thanks to IQMS for their zealous support of Jatco, Inc to fill our ERP needs over the years," said Rex Clement, plant manager for Jatco, Inc., one of IQMS's first customers. "From the beginning with the DOS version, to the conversion to Windows and beyond, it has been an absolute pleasure to work with the great people that make IQMS what it is today." In addition to their dedicated support to the ERP software industry, IQMS promotes active support of its community, providing jobs and assistance to local organizations in need. Due to its growth in 2008, IQMS was able to add new employees to every department. "IQMS has been a tremendous employer," says Frank Mecham, Country Supervisor; San Luis Obispo County; District 1. "The people, who work for them, love them. They are very engaged in the community. They just wonderful people and it's a great company. It's a very stable company. Despite this economic situation we're in, IQMS is a company that continues to grow. That says a lot about their vision and for their involvement in the industry. IQMS is a good solid company with good solid people. It's a tremendous asset to the community." IQMS continues to show innovation. This year, IQMS released a new version of its flagship product, Enterprise IQ 7.6.1, which includes more than 900 customer-driven enhancements. The company also debuted RackTruck, a customized ERP solution that combines inventory scanning, forklift mounted monitors and stocking location mapping for manufacturers. The customized ERP solution, created by the IQMS Automation Group for their customer Double H Plastics, utilizes fork-lift mounted monitors and scanners making Double H Plastics leaner, more agile and competitive. Over the years, IQMS has maintained the balance of providing jobs locally and innovative ERP software to manufacturers throughout the world. The company's strong leadership and customer support allows them to be a worldwide organization while still offering strong value to their own community. "We congratulate IQMS on its 20th anniversary," said Paso Robles Mayor Duane Picanco. "The City of Paso Robles is proud that IQMS has made its corporate headquarters here. Randy and Nancy Flamm have grown IQMS into a model company, which is committed to quality work and products locally and throughout the world. Paso Robles has truly benefitted not only economically, but also through their generosity." About IQMS | ||
published date: 07-22-2009 |
Elcam Medical Press Release
Elcam Medical (BarAm, Israel) announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in Injectech, LLC, a privately-held company based in Loveland, Colorado. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Elcam Medical is the leading worldwide OEM supplier of Fluid Management, Drug Delivery and Vital Signs Monitoring systems and devices. In providing "Ideas to Solutions", Elcam is an innovative, customer-centric, full-service partner with capabilities ranging from design through manufacturing with particular expertise in high volume precision molding, high speed assembly and laser applications. Injectech is a leading OEM provider of luer connectors, barbed fittings, check valves and custom injection molded components to the healthcare industry. Injectech has built a reputation as a flexible, high quality supplier that assists customers on all levels of project management – from prototype to production runs. According to Ehud Raivitz, Elcam Medical CEO, "We see great synergy between the two companies and their products. We are impressed with Injectech's reputation among their customer base, especially their quality and responsiveness. Injectech also provides Elcam with a U.S.-based manufacturing operation." Injectech will operate as an independent entity. Dave Splett and Larry Knipple will continue to manage the operations of Injectech. Lloyd Fishman, Elcam Medical, Inc. Vice President, Business Development & Marketing will serve as Chairman of the Board. For further information, please contact Lloyd Fishman, at 201 457-1120 x103 or lloyd.fishman@elcam-medical.com. | ||
published date: 07-22-2009 |
Watlow Introduces ULTRAMIC™ 600, an Advanced Ceramic Heater with Low Leakage Current with Ultimate Patient Safety in Mind
St. Louis — Watlow, a St. Louis-based provider of thermal solutions, introduces its ULTRAMIC™ 600 advanced ceramic heater. The high thermal conductivity aluminum nitride (AIN) ceramic composition is paired with a proprietary, thermally matched, heating element to enable a fast responding heater configured in a low mass package. "Watlow's R&D team developed the ULTRAMIC 600 heater to meet the low leakage requirements found in medical device equipment," said Dr. Hongy Lin, principal scientist. "Numerous hours of life testing and development of proprietary techniques and practices have made all of this possible." With a leakage current of less than 10ìA, the ULTRAMIC 600 heater makes it easier for medical devices to pass the 500ìA, IEC 60601, total system requirement the first time. Plus, the ULTRAMIC 600 can often eliminate a low voltage AC or DC medical grade power supply. "With less heat and weight, your electronics package can be made smaller and lighter to the advantage of your customers," added Dr. Lin. The construction technique of the ULTRAMIC 600 heater is to sinter the ceramic at elevated temperatures to create a monolithic, geometrically stable structure. The result is a very low porosity, homogeneous, robust heater assembly that provides the necessary heat transfer for high temperature and long heater life. Constructing an electric heater using sintered ceramic materials provides many benefits including high dielectric strength, a leakage current of less than 10ìA, uniform temperatures, high durability at low mass, a rapid ramp rate and an extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion. Watlow's ULTRAMIC 600 heater can operate up to 600°C (1112°F) with a ramp rate of up to 150°C (270°F) per second depending on the application, heater design and process parameters. This heater also contains a unique (patent pending) integrated thermocouple configuration that improves the reliability of the sensor/heater interface to ensure fast responsiveness during high ramp rate applications. Watlow's ULTRAMIC 600 heater is available in either rectangle or ring forms and can be machined to meet specific design requirements including holes, vacuum grooves or ultra-fine surface finishes. About Watlow # # # For additional information or to be connected to the nearest Watlow representative: | ||
published date: 07-22-2009 |
Perfecseal Announces an Expanded Pharmaceutical Packaging Portfolio
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (July 22, 2009) — Perfecseal, a global supplier in the pharmaceutical packaging industry, announces an expanded standard pharmaceutical packaging portfolio under the trade name PerfecPharm™. These high barrier film/foil structures are engineered to provide superior product protection. The specifications support various pharmaceutical pouching formats, such as sachet, strip packaging, flow wrap, stick pack, peelable and frangible. Additionally, structures have been designed for child-resistant and high barrier/chemical resistant applications.
A global leader in the healthcare and pharmaceutical packaging markets, Perfecseal specializes in the manufacture of co-extruded films, laminated films, flexible forming films, foil barrier laminations, pouches, bags, thermoformed trays, lids, labels, heat seal coated Tyvek® and heat seal coated medical grades of paper. Perfecseal, a division of the Bemis Company, has facilities located in Oshkosh and New London, WI; Mankato, MN; Philadelphia, PA; San Juan, PR; Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Selangor, Malaysia; and Suzhou, China. Visit our website at www.perfecseal.com. Bemis Company is a major supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials used by leading food, consumer products, manufacturing, and other companies worldwide. Founded in 1858, the Company reported 2008 net sales of $3.8 billion. The Company's flexible packaging business has a strong technical base in polymer chemistry, film extrusion, coating and laminating, printing and converting. The Company's pressure sensitive materials business specializes in adhesive technologies. Headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, Bemis employs about 15,800 individuals in 61 manufacturing facilities in 11 countries around the world. More information about the Company is available at its website, www.bemis.com. | ||
published date: 07-22-2009 |
Xact Wire EDM Corporation celebrates their 25th anniversary.
Company established June 1984 "The last five years have been more interesting and challenging than the first twenty!" John Dora "Our culture of continuous improvement and our employee's willingness to learn has contributed greatly to our success." Jeff Gubbins July 3, 2009 — Xact Wire EDM was founded in 1984 by Jeff Gubbins and John Dora. Prior to starting Xact, the two owners worked together for five years and held common beliefs about how to properly treat employees and customers. They also believed that to succeed, they needed to listen very closely to their customers, constantly hire and train good people, frequently acquire new advanced technology, always strive to improve, and be willing to quickly move into new application areas. From the very beginning, Xact was dedicated to providing the very best wire EDM service to customers in all industries. Xact is still keenly focused on wire EDM and continues to function as an extension of their customers own capabilities. Xact started in 1984 with one wire EDM machine in a small rental space. With little financial resources to support them in the beginning, those first years were challenging, but also interesting and exciting. Most customers were local stamping die and mold makers. Xact grew rapidly and added an additional wire EDM machines about every six months. In 1986, Xact acquired a machine and the software for 4-axis (independent U-V) cutting and automatic wire threading. In 1989 Xact constructed a temperature controlled 10,000 square foot facility designed specifically for wire EDM. In 1994, Xact opened a fully equipped branch location in Cary, Illinois to provide better service to Chicago area customers. Additional growth required the addition of 5,000 square feet in Wisconsin in 2005 and the addition of several machines with the latest linear motor technology. Since Xact's founding, outstanding quality systems have been in place. Due to its far-reaching geographic expansion and new markets, Xact pursued and received ISO 9001:2008 certification in 2007. Xact has always heavily invested in support equipment for it's wire machines. Xact has multiple programming stations, high-speed small hole machines, video inspection systems, coordinate measuring machines, and part marking machines (pin stamping and laser). Xact has grown into a company with the resources and experience to handle the most demanding requirements in all industries. Many dedicated employees have been with Xact for many years. They have learned a great deal by listening closely to customers and by being focused on one field – wire EDM. | ||
published date: 07-20-2009 |
CleanSafe™ 585 Aqueous Cleaner For Medical Device Manufacturing
Gurnee, IL — Petroferm Cleaning Products Division has recently developed CleanSafe 585, a best-in-class aqueous cleaning agent designed for use in immersion ultrasonic cleaning equipment. CleanSafe 585 effectively removes buffing and polishing compounds, metalworking fluids and particulate from orthopaedic products, cardiovascular devices, and surgical tools and instrumentation. In a recent demonstration, CleanSafe 585 effectively removed hard-to-clean MMPCO V-V376 and V376 GREY STAR buffing compounds. CleanSafe 585 is safe for use on many alloys, polymers and elastomers used in medical device manufacturing including stainless steel, titanium, cobalt-chrome, Nitinol, PEEK, UHMW-PE and ceramics. CleanSafe 585 has the environmental advantages of being VOC-free, phosphate-free and NPE and APE-free. About Petroferm Cleaning Products Petroferm Cleaning Products, a division of Petroferm Inc., develops, manufactures, and markets environmentally responsible cleaning agents to meet the increasing demands of today's industrial manufacturing operations. Sold under the AXAREL®, BIOACT®, CleanSafe™, HYDREX®, LENIUM®, RE-ENTRY® and SOLVAG™ trade names, Petroferm products are used to clean precision parts during production, ranging from simple hand wipe applications to sophisticated multi-stage cleaning systems. Petroferm's portfolio includes innovative formulations for all major cleaning process technologies including aqueous, co-solvent, non-aqueous, semi-aqueous, and vapor degreasing. Our major markets are Aerospace, Defense, Electronics, and Medical Device manufacturing as well as other high tech industries. As a global leader in precision cleaning, Petroferm's cleaning agents are readily available throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.petroferm.com. | ||
published date: 07-20-2009 |
BeamOne Announces Ohio Service Center Expansion
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — BeamOne LLC announces the expansion of its Lima, Ohio Service Center which will result in an increase to the warehouse area of 45%. This improvement to the Ohio facility emphasizes BeamOne's strategic commitment to superior customer service, quality processing, and rapid product turnaround time. In addition to expansion of the pre-sterilization area, the facility improvement project will also provide an enhanced special handling / testing set-up area and additional refrigeration storage capability for temperature sensitive products. According to Glenn Thibault, BeamOne's President and CEO, "We are very proud to announce this upgrade for our Ohio plant. Since joining the BeamOne family of service centers, Lima has been operating at near capacity due to the support of our extremely loyal customer base. The additional space resulting from the expansion effort will allow better product handling by providing easier access to inbound and outbound shipments. Our customers should see an immediate benefit from the improved work flow in the warehouse." The construction effort is already under way in Lima, and no interruption in service or plant availability is expected during the build period. Project completion is anticipated to be mid-September. About BeamOne Company Contact: | ||
published date: 07-20-2009 |
Customers Design Reid Supply's New Web Site
Reid Supply Company, a leading supplier of industrial and technical parts and free CAD images to engineers, technicians and others has enhanced their web site with direct input from their customers. John Carrier, the company's President, says the new ReidSupply.com is all about ease of use with a new intuitive smarter search engine and a de-emphasis on marketing. The new site takes the customer exactly where they want to go faster and easier. Plus, the new site offers a Knowledge Base for engineers, machinists, hobbyists and scholars. Their repository of information features the free CAD library, a large collection of reference books, a free "Ask An Expert" feature, a free e-newsletter, free Resource Guides, special requests and more. Customers Design Reid Supply's New Web Site B2B
In a continuing effort to improve the customer experience, the web development team at Reid Supply enlisted the help of long-time patrons to understand their ecommerce needs for industrial products. What they found was good news. "We discovered that we were on the right track with our developmental planning for the new ReidSupply.com," said Greg Palmer, Reid Supply Company's Director of Marketing. "In a survey sent out to thousands of customers, we learned that they wanted a simpler and more direct shopping experience. That was exactly what we were planning, and that is exactly what we've built." Part of that simpler experience involved Reid eliminating most of the marketing messages on the site. Their customers wanted better search results with less "marketing clutter" to get in the way of buying the products they wanted. On top of this, they added vital on-line account management for the customer. "We conducted a deep survey of Reid Customers and frankly, discovered a few problems," said Palmer. "We found out, through direct and indirect contact, that users wanted a better, smarter, search tool; they wanted an easier way to manage their on-line accounts; and they wanted a site that was clear of marketing clutter so that they could find the products that they needed faster." The Reid team realized from the survey that they had some pretty serious remodeling to do. Utilizing best web practices; smart data use; and some very creative programming and designing, they got to work. They determined the new site would need a lot of web images because they wanted it to be image-driven, as well as data searchable. The Reid team utilized all of their print catalog images, took photos of missing images, and utilized computer aided design (CAD) drawings, which are free to the customer, to give the site added functionality. According to the company, their new web site is much more than better data; an improved search experience was number one on the customers' request list. "The first thing we considered was how we could create a simpler and smarter search app that delivered what customers were looking for," said John Carrier, President of Reid Supply Company. "Our new Smarter Search function is very intuitive in the sense that as you are typing, it is auto-suggesting in a drop-down window. This can be very handy if you don't know exactly what you want. The search engine can be very helpful." Reid also simplified the look of the web site and virtually eliminated the marketing hype. There are still specials available like the Clearance Center, Deal of the Day, and Savings Spotlights, but they are only visible from a tab or on the right rail of the site. "It takes a great deal of planning to make a site this vast work,” said Carrier. "It's an interesting marriage between our ERP system, our search engine, our database servers, our programming platform and a lot of programming to make it all work. We have a great web team to bring the marriage together." By all indications, Reid customers are delighted. Early responders have said that the new web site is more user friendly, and more importantly, more effective in guiding the user to the exact item they need much faster. "We didn't need an economic downturn to tell us that we needed to give the Customer exactly what they wanted," said Carrier. "We've always believed that and that is why our team is constantly gearing up with new technologies to improve the Customer's experience. There will always be new features that our Customers will ask for when shopping on-line and even now, having just launched the new site, we continue tweaking and improving the functionality daily." Reid is on the cutting edge of technology and offers free CAD drawings on more than 90% of everything on their web site, ReidSupply.com. "We have over 40,000 free CAD drawings that anyone can download," says Palmer. "This is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, free CAD database in the industrial supply industry. It would be very beneficial for an engineer or technician in any industry to come to ReidSupply.com and simply download the CAD part they need for their engineering designs." The company's revamped web site offers a Knowledge Base for engineers, machinists, hobbyists and scholars. This repository of information features the free CAD library, a large collection of reference books, a free "Ask An Expert" feature, a free e-newsletter, free Resource Guides, special requests and more. Reid Supply Company, which started selling industrial supplies in 1948, serves virtually every industry with products ranging from clamps, to power transmission, to structural systems, to hardware and everything in between. "Our exclusive 12 color-coded category classification is great for folks who want to locate specific items with minimum effort," says Palmer. "We have organized all of our products into these 12 areas and color-coded them for easy reference and access." Reid's product offering features 12 color-coded categories as follows: "We are always looking toward the future for our Customers," says Carrier. "As technology changes, so will we. But one thing will never change here, our rallying cry, 'while others may be bigger, nobody will serve the Customer better' which is really all about us staying at the forefront of serving everyone who shops the new ReidSupply.com." ### | ||
published date: 07-10-2009 |
Muskegon, Michigan, July 7, 2009 – What Does It Take to Build a World-Class e-Commerce Web Site? According to the web services team at Ethelplas™ NSF-51 NSF-61 Polyethylene Tubing
Ethelplas™ Tubing is designed for applications such as commercial and household appliances, food and beverage dispensers, restaurant facilities, laboratory testing equipment, as well as general-purpose applications. Ethelplas™ tubing is currently available in 9 different sizes that range from 1/16" ID to 5/8" ID. Contact: | ||
published date: 07-10-2009 |
Ark-Plas® Products, Inc. is proud to announce the expansion of our extruded tubing product line with NSF-51/ 61 Certified EthelplasTM Tubing. Ethelplas™ Tubing is extruded from 100% virgin Linear Low-Density Polyethylene resin. Ethelplas™ Tubing is manufactured with non-toxic ingredients formulated specifically for the food and beverage industry. Ark-Plas® NSF-51/ 61 Polyethylene Tubing is manufactured with 55 Durometer resin that is natural in color. Polyethylene tubing is economical, displays good resistance to chemicals, and is nonconductive.DDL, Leader in Medical Device Package, Product and Material Testing, Announces the Date of their Summer Open House!
DDL, Leader in Medical Device Package, Product and Material Testing, Announces the Date of their Summer Open House! DDL Invites Industry professionals to tour their lab in Eden Prairie, MN! MINNEAPOLIS, MN, July 10, 2009 — http://www.testedandproven.com/ - DDL, the leader in medical device package, material and product testing, is having an open house for current and prospective customers to visit their lab in Eden Prairie, MN. The open house, which is scheduled to take place on Friday, July 17, 2009, will offer tours of the lab, giving guests a first hand experience of their full suite of capabilities. "We want to give our current and prospective customers and opportunity to tour our facility and see why DDL is the technical leader in the package, product and material testing industry," Pat Nolan, COO of DDL, said. The open house, which runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will run guided tours every half hour giving guests the opportunity to meet DDL staff, network with industry professionals and view live demonstrations of some of DDL's tests. Guests will also have an opportunity to win a pair of Twins tickets along with other prizes. When: Friday, July, 17, 2009 About DDL | ||
published date: 07-09-2009 |
Avicenna Technology Delivers Data-Matrix Marking Services
Avicenna's laser machining capabilities include data-matrix marking which allows for a significant amount of data to be stored in a very small space. This process is typically used for marking small and difficult surfaces. Data-matrix marking works especially well for marking catheter components and long-term implantable leads. One of the unique benefits of data-matrix marking includes the creation of permanent traceability for medical device products. The product data can be entered via an electronic scanning process. This eliminates manual data entry and the inevitable errors that result. Avicenna uses Laser, Mechanical and Organizational Energy combined with sophisticated automation to prototype, plan, and manufacture products made from a wide range of materials. As an innovative manufacturer and solution provider, Avicenna bridges the technology-solution gap between customer ideas and commercialized products – products that change the way we live. # # # | ||
published date: 07-08-2009 |
Montevideo, Minn. / 08 July 2009 — Avicenna Technology, an innovative manufacturer primarily serving the medical device industry with Laser, Mechanical, and Organizational Energy services, delivers data-matrix marking services.AdvantaFlex™, a New TPE Tubing that's Weldable, Heat Sealable, and Offers Great Pump Life—Developed for BioPharmaceutical & Critical Fluid Processing
AdvantaFlex addresses the need for a flexible, weldable, and heat sealable tubing for fluid processing. Its unique properties help it perform better than other tubing in high purity fluid lines and peristaltic pumps. AdvantaFlex is specially formulated for low permeability and to withstand repeated compression and release for consistent, dependable performance. It’s designed to far outlast other similarly promoted tubing. The combination of a tubing that is smooth, flexible, and resilient yet may be reliably welded and heat sealed is AdvantaFlex’s greatest advantage over other tubing materials. The tubing may be welded directly to biobags and other components for secure connections without the entrapment issues of fittings and clamps. AdvantaFlex is heat sealable for uses where sampling is required. AdvantaFlex complies with USP, ISO, EP, and FDA standards and is free of animal-derived ingredients. Applications include sterile filling, vaccine production, pharmaceutical sampling and delivery systems, peristaltic pump transfer systems, bioreactor processes, cell media and harvesting, pharmaceutical production and processing, high purity water transfer, and filtration. AdvantaFlex™ is translucent for visual contact with the flow and may be sterilized by autoclave or gamma radiation. Sizes range from 1/8" through 3/4" I.D. The tubing is documented lot traceable, offers documented quality control, and is available with validation and extractables test portfolios. For additional information on new AdvantaFlex Biopharmaceutical Grade TPE Tubing, contact the helpful Sales Team at NewAge Industries AdvantaPure™, 145 James Way, Southampton, PA 18966; phone: 704-799-9652; Fax: 704-799-9653; e-mail: sales@advantapure.com. # # # About AdvantaPure and NewAge Industries In business since 1954, NewAge Industries is a manufacturer and fabricator of thermoplastic and thermoset tubing and hose, and a private-brand master distributor of fittings and clamps. The company offers one of the broadest product lines of tubing, hose, and fittings in the U.S., and its custom extrusion and fabrication services are unrivaled. | ||
published date: 07-07-2009 |
Southampton, PA — AdvantaPure is proud to launch AdvantaFlex™, a new tubing designed specifically for high purity fluid transfer. AdvantaFlex is manufactured from a biopharmaceutical-grade TPE (thermoplastic elastomer) for the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical, and critical processing industries.Sterilizable Motors EC Size 5 and EC 13
Provides cost-effective high performance
The drives are identical and possess equal performance data and characteristics. The motor and gearhead of Size 5 version possess dimensions in U.S. Customary Units resulting in an outside diameter of ؽ inch and a shaft of Ø0.125 inch. The motor has a "Servo Mount", a well-established type of motor fixation. The EC13/GP13 version is expressed in metrics, which results in an outer diameter of Ø13 mm, a Ø3 mm shaft and a flange with 3 face side threads. Despite their “personalized outer wrapping”, the two drives are characterized by their similarities. Both are ideal for medical design applications; compact design with very high nominal speed, quiet running, minimized thermal emission and sterilizability of typically 500 autoclave cycles. Both are available either equipped with Hall sensors or sensorless as well as with three different windings. The gearheads come with versions of one, two or three stages as well as with or without output end shaft sealing. Check out our website for additional product information www.maxonmotorusa.com info@maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 06-30-2009 |
maxon motor launches two sterilizable drives for use with or without planetary gearheads in high speed medical applications of up to 90,000 rpm. The drives are characterized by their high nominal speed, extremely low-noise and low-vibration operation, marginal thermal emission and small size.RE 50 - An extremely high density 200 W power pack
Unprecedented with respect to robustness and durability as well as its power rating ratio.
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published date: 06-30-2009 |
Maxon’s RE 50's "heart" is, as with all mechanically commutated maxon motor drives, the ironless rotor, which results in detent-free running and minimized mass inertia. The combination of a two-pole Neodymium permanent magnet with the patented maxon winding technology results in high torque and remarkable acceleration. The drive measures Ø50 x 108 mm and is available with four different windings. It reaches a nominal torque of up to 0.38 Nm, a nominal speed of 2800 to 5700 rpm and an efficiency of more than 90%. Low nominal voltage (24.70 VDC) and high power density make the RE 50 an excellent choice for the use in battery-powered applications, such as electric vehicles, transport and logistics equipment, mobile systems, robots, etc. Pre-loaded bearings contribute to low-vibration and quieter running and an extensive life span. The well proven maxon modular system offers matching planetary gearheads, encoders and control systems. Look for more information soon on a dust and splash water protected RE 50 version, which will be available with an optional brake.Brushless High Speed DC Motor
with 250 Watt power output
The motor measures at Ø25 x 84 mm and is rated for nominal voltage of 36 VDC and reaches a nominal torque of up to 42.2 mNm, nominal speed 61,600 rpm with efficiency above 93%. The motor-specific speed/torque gradient amounts to 44.9 rpm/mNm. This EC25 motor is particularly suitable for high speed spindle-driven applications, as required in medical technology (surgical power tools, dental drills, etc.) or machine tools (manufacture of optical lenses, fabrication of printed circuit boards, etc.). For fast-rotating applications, a friction-reduced, low-vibration operation over the entire speed range is necessary. This can only be achieved with high-precision balancing and preloaded ball bearings. www.maxonmotorusa.com or info@maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 06-30-2009 |
Maxon motor introduces the brushless EC 25. Designed for high speed applications of up to 70,000 rpm and has an extremely low vibration characteristic and minimized scale. The motor is equipped with preloaded ball bearings and a two pole Neodymium permanent magnet.Dynamic and precise: The perfect OEM drive solution
maxon motor launches new CANopen positioning module.
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published date: 06-30-2009 |
As an addition to the digital positioning controllers of the EPOS family, maxon motor now presents an OEM version. The miniaturized EPOS2 Module 36/2 is designed to control brush DC motors as well as brushless EC motors. This plug-in module offers full motion control functionalities and suits single-axis and multiple-axis applications of miniature size. The EPOS2 Module 36/2 is the perfect drive solution for equipment designers. This plug-in module integrates seamlessly into customer applications. One major advantage of the position controller is its outstanding flexibility. It can be operated in various operational modes; as position controller, but also as speed controller or as current controller. This characteristic permits the use of the module in a vast range of drive systems. Thus, the EPOS2 Module 36/2 can be applied wherever decentralized drive management is needed. With its size of only 54x28x9 mm, performance characteristics of 36 Volt max and 2 Amp, the module is especially suitable as an OEM component in miniature apparatus manufacturing. As with all products of the EPOS series, this module has also been developed to command and control within a CANopen network. It also can communicate via USB or RS232 interface. Additionally, step motors can be substituted by employing the featured "Step/Direction Mode" and the "Master Encoder Mode" transforms the drive into an electronic gearbox. Control via an analogue set value voltage can replace conventional servo amplifier setups. maxon motor offers a comprehensive Starter Kit including an Evaluation Board for a single-axis system. Also available is documentation set to assist OEMs in motherboard design for multiple-axis systems. Documentation and software is delivered with every shipment and is also available for download on the Internet via At the right place at the right time
maxon motor launches a new intelligent positioning controller. A 2nd generation of the family of intelligent positioning controllers EPOS (Easy to use POSitioning System) is already emerging. EPOS2 is the name of the new product from the maxon motor control range - a digital positioning controller designed to control brush and brushless DC motors with encoder.
The new EPOS2, with 32-bit digital signal processor technology, supports the very best motion control functionalities. Complex mathematical algorithms can therefore be carried out efficiently. This produces excellent control characteristics. The new EPOS2 offers excellent security and effective protection against electromagnetic interference as a result of potential-separated digital inputs and outputs. Thanks to interpolated position mode (IPM), the EPOS2 is able to synchronously run a path specified through interpolation points dynamically and accurately. With a suitable master, coordinated multi-axis movements and any profile can be carried out in a 1-axis system. The upgraded regulation tuning functionality is an effective and time-saving tool for adjusting power, speed or position control. It is also easy to use and significantly simplifies set-up of the new positioning controller. Online commanding is carried out using CAN Master (EPOS P, SPS, Soft SPS, etc.) or PC via USB or RS232 interface A USB to CAN and RS232 to CAN gateway function has also been integrated. Several drives can be networked and coordinated through the standardized CANopen interface. The compact design of the new EPOS2 50/5 means it can be used in areas such as tool building, production machinery, automation tasks and anywhere requiring decentralized drive intelligence. Comprehensive documentation and software are included with every delivery, and are also available for you to download from our website at www.maxonmotor.com. http://www.maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 06-30-2009 |
maxon EPOS positioning controllers are the ideal choice for applications that require decentralized drive intelligence. These modular digital positioning controllers, based on CANopen standard, cover a performance range from 1 – 700 watts. They can operate in position, speed and current control mode, and can be configured to operate with both DC and EC motors, depending on software commands. A variety of operating modes means that they can be used flexibly in every kind of drive system in automation technology and mechatronics.Metal Pushbutton Sports Added Features
DD series is most compact power entry design for safe power input
Available in red, green or blue, illumination, the MSM LA is excellent for applications in dimly lit areas or to indicate the switches ON/OFF status. Switching voltages are up to 125 VDC / 250 VAC. The resting position of the actuator also indicates switching status, both visually and by touch. In the OFF state, the actuator position protrudes from the housing; in the ON state, it is depressed into the housing. This provides a user-friendly actuating function and also prevents inadvertent switching, e.g. caused by objects leaning on the switch. In addition to physical and visual indication, the MSM LA may be used in conjunction with audible devices, thereby meeting various feedback requirements of the ADA. The MSM LA is available in 19mm and 22mm mounting diameters and carries an IP 67 seal protection rating from the front. The robust stainless steel switch withstands temperatures ranging from -40 °C to +85 °C and is ideal for use in harsh environments. Applications include various types of control panels used in marine, automotive and aircraft; industrial controllers for manufacturing equipment including process and packaging equipment, self-service kiosks and vending equipment, public and institutional security access systems, audio and entertainment systems, medical diagnostic and hospital equipment. Laser lettering and symbols are possible for all types in standard or customer-specific characters. The MSM LA micro switch is UL, CSA and ENEC approved. The micro switch is supplied separate from the housing for pre-wiring before installation. Lead time is stock to six weeks for standard types. Information about Schurter can be found at www.schurterinc.com. For sales and product information, contact Cora Umlauf at 800 848-2600 or info@schurterinc.com. About Schurter Inc. | ||
published date: 06-29-2009 |
SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 14, 2009 — Schurter's vandal-proof metal pushbutton switch with latching action now offers point illumination in addition to ring illuminated types. The series is available in double-pole or the newly added single-pole version. The attractive new design also offers an actuator with increased actuating travel of greater than 5 mm.FlowVision Continues Support of Medical Device Manufacturing with Successful Completion of Lean Implementation at NAS Medical
Company Realized Substantial Savings Soon After Lean/Flow Implementation Dillon, CO., December 11th, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — FlowVision, LLC a full service provider of Lean Business and Supply Chain Consulting Services, today announced the successful completion of another implementation of lean manufacturing for medical device manufacturers. "We take great pride in working with Medical Device manufactures", says John Denzel, Chief Executive Officer of FlowVision. "The people in these companies work every day to save lives; it is joy to help them improve their company and their operations so they can continue to provide world class patient support. We congratulate our friends at NAS Medical on their successful completion of the Lean/Flow implementation and are pleased that they are enjoying all the benefits of they hard work." John Rush, Chief Executive officer of NAS Medical adds, "NAS Medical (NASDAQ: NASM) partnered with FlowVision to implement several key lean manufacturing aspects at its brachytherapy source production facility in Chatsworth, California. Over the course of 3 months, FlowVision worked with all employee levels and departments to plan, train, and implement modified one piece flow, cellular layout, and kanban schemes, as well as improving standardized work and cross-training. The results of the effort met or exceeded all expectations: 40% savings in material cost, 70% reduction in product lead time, 10% reduction in scrap, 15% improvement in employee productivity, 5% improvement in fulfillment rate, and 80% reduction in overtime costs. Our project ROI was achieved only 6 weeks following the project close, and we are on track to realize almost $1 million in overall savings in the first year. Our experience with FlowVision has been outstanding, and we will certainly use them again during our next round of improvements!" For more information, visit the company's website at www.flowvision.com or contact John Denzel at: denzel@flowvision.com. About FlowVision About NAS Medical SOURCE: FlowVision, LLC FlowVision, LLC | ||
published date: 06-29-2009 |
Chemir Analytical Services Continues Support of Medical Device Industry
St. Louis (June 2009) — Plastics are one of the most common materials used in medical devices, having a wide range of properties due to their various chemistries. However, sometimes a plastic does not perform the way it should and can put a patient in danger. If a device is deteriorating or a contaminant is suspected, it can be unsafe. The specialists at Chemir Analytical Services are experienced in solving medical device problems that involve plastic and polymer testing. "A problem in a medical device can be a life or death issue," said Dave Riggs, President of Chemir Analytical Services. "In the development process, any issues need to be resolved quickly so that companies can continue with the approval process to save lives down the road. If a device is recalled, we can identify the problem so that manufacturing can resume. It is our goal to help this valuable industry by identifying problems as quickly and accurately as possible." Chemir Analytical Services specializes in deformulation, materials identification, contaminant identification and failure analysis. Their renowned scientists investigate a wide variety of medical devices including implants, tubing, catheters, packaging, containers, protective devices and more. With extensive experience in the medical device industry, Chemir has performed polymeric material analysis on thermoplastics, thermosets and cross-linked thermoplastics, in addition to plastics for machining, commodity plastics, elastomers, high performance polymers, specialty polymers, composites, polyurethanes, adhesives and sealants. Chemir's scientists can evaluate the physical properties of medical plastics, such as tensile properties, adhesive strength, cross-sectional multiple layer film thickness and thermal properties. Chemir also investigates medical device issues with metals, organics and inorganics.
"We can also address questions of patent infringement," says Aaron Cassely, Senior Director of Technical Services at Chemir. "Through deformulation, or reverse engineering, we can understand the product's composition when faced with an intellectual property dispute." About Chemir Analytical Services ##### Media Contact: | ||
published date: 06-26-2009 |
DDL, Leader in Medical Device Package, Product and Material Testing, Announces the Success of their Open House!
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - June 22, 2009, — http://www.testedandproven.com/ - DDL, the leader in medical device package testing, package material testing and physical property testing, held an open house for current and prospective customers to visit their new lab in Edison, NJ. "We walked each guest through our new integrity lab, our distribution lab and our accelerated aging chambers," Peter Johnson, Packaging Engineer at DDL East, said. "We answered questions on all facets of package validation testing including distribution simulation, stability testing, package strength and package integrity testing along with package prototype and design." The open house, which took place on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, gave guests the opportunity to meet DDL East's staff, tour their new lab and view live demonstrations of some of DDL's tests. After their tours the guests enjoyed lunch and networking with other industry professionals. "The open house gave our customers a chance to see why DDL is the technical leader in medical device package, product and material testing," Johnson said. "The positive response we received from our guests indicates great things to come for our New Jersey facility." The Edison, NJ location finished the expansion of its new lab in late March and is now capable of handling DDL's entire suite of package, product and material testing services, including shock testing, vibration testing, tensile testing, leak testing and validation services. "Our new lab also represents a dramatic expansion to the temperature controlled package testing capabilities that were previously being handled by our parent company, TCP Reliable," John Hart, DDL's CEO, said." About DDL | ||
published date: 06-22-2009 |
Maxon Motor EC 9.2 flat
Large-scale torque in a small package
An ideal motor drive for medical technology applications where space limitations may be a concern. Other features include high nominal torque and lifespan-optimized bearings. Also available with or without Hall sensors. The drive meets medical technology's quality standard ISO 13485 meaning it conforms to the rigid quality requirements and guaranteed traceability of individual components. www.maxonmotorusa.com or info@maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 06-22-2009 |
Maxon motor launches its flat motor measuring Ø10 x 12.5 mm offering a high nominal torque of up to 0.83 mNm and a stall torque of up to 1.29 mNm. Its outer diameter of 10 mm includes a protective cover that serves as protection against contact and as mounting aid during installation of the motor. It is equipped with an 8-pole Neodymium permanent magnet and preloaded ball bearings.AssurX presents Webinar on eMDR & the New Electronic FDA – June 24, 2009 – 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST
June 8, 2009 — Morgan Hill, CA — AssurX, Inc., the leader in quality management and regulatory compliance solutions announces a new Webinar focused on Electronic Medical Device Reporting. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/536097739 BACKGROUND: The FDA is spending billions of dollars on IT modernization and standardization, so could this finally be the year they mandate eMDR? The pace of eMDR adoption is also starting to pick up steam. Medical device manufacturers are typically considered early technology adopters but during 2006–2007, eMDR submissions stayed relatively unchanged year over year. However, starting in 2008 electronic submissions more than doubled, and will most likely at least triple this year. At the end of 2008, 11% of MDRs came via eMDR. So is it time to start thinking about transitioning to eMDR? Most likely say experts from the FDA. According to Indira Konduri, "“Get an early start now. We're here to help and give personalized attention. Assistance from the FDA will be easier now — before it's mandatory — and you'll be ready to go when eMDR is mandated." SPEAKER: Tamar June, Vice President, Marketing, AssurX Inc. AGENDA: The discussion will focus on the understanding of Electronic Medical Device Reporting (eMDR):
LIVE eMDR DEMONSTRATION:
The Webinar will be followed by a Q&A open session. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: The Webinar will benefit those professionals who are involved in:
TO REGISTER: To register for this Webinar: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/536097739 Seating is limited so please register early. ABOUT ASSURX, INC. AssurX, Inc., provides organizations with enterprise-wide global solutions for their quality management and compliance systems needs. With a choice of OnDemand services or OnPremise (licensed) software delivery options, AssurX offers a flexible, comprehensive all-in-one solution that automates quality & regulatory compliance related processes so issues can be globally managed—from detection to corrective action to trend analysis. It helps collect, organize, analyze and share information to better manage and improve quality and compliance performance everywhere in your enterprise. More information about AssurX can be found at www.assurx.com. FOR FURTHER INFORMATON, PLEASE CONTACT: Janet Worthen | ||
published date: 06-19-2009 |
Tekra Corporation Certified to ISO 9001:2008
NEW BERLIN, Wisconsin (May 2009) — Tekra Corporation, a plastic film manufacturer and distributor based in New Berlin, Wisconsin has recently been certified to the quality management system standard ISO 9001:2008. "Tekra provides products and services to quality critical medical and durable goods manufacturing markets where a commitment to ongoing quality management is an absolute necessity," said Mark Mawer, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We are pleased to have met the 9001:2008 standard and will continue to focus on customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement as the standard mandates." Tekra Corporation is a manufacturer of coated plastic films for the industrial graphics marketplace and distributes Dupont Teijin polyester, Sabic Innovative Plastics polycarbonate films and 3M adhesives and tapes throughout North America. For information contact Tekra at 800-448-3572 or visit www.tekra.com. | ||
published date: 06-18-2009 |
LMS introduces new product at 2009 MD&M East
LMS will be showcasing its newest development for the medical market, the CannuSeal System, at MD&M East in New York City from June 9th through the 11th. The patent-pending CannuSeal System is designed with two MediFlo® elastomeric valves to securely seal against cannula, trocars, introducers, and other instruments during insertion and withdrawal. This system, designed by two engineers of LMS, prevents almost all fluid and pressure loss when a cannula passes through. Another benefit of the system is that it can be used for multiple insertions and withdrawals, while continuing to prevent pressure loss. Because each application is unique, LMS engineers will work with customers to customize the system to meet specific needs and requirements. This innovative technology will increase the options for medical procedures where control of pressure or fluid loss is critical. This breakthrough design allows LMS to further bring increased efficiencies and enhanced performance to various devices used in medical procedures as a total solutions provider. LMS Sales and Marketing Coordinator, Justin Sessink, stated "As our success in the medical market continues to increase, this new system is one more innovative solution we’ve developed to help meet our customers' challenges." LMS has been able to leverage its years of experience working with the medical market to develop this new system to integrate elastomeric valves into thermoplastic components. Not only do the valves play an important role in the new CannuSeal System, but the design of the plastic is critical in allowing the valves to seal securely during procedures with the least amount of resistance. An engineer at a major medical-device design firm recently told LMS "... your valves are some of the most resistance-free seals in the market." LMS is demonstrating this product at Booth 2554 to allow individuals to test how this unique system works. The new CannuSeal System - more proof that LMS is the cure for the common valve. LMS was founded in 1985 and remains a pioneer in the liquid silicone rubber molding industry. Since the invention of its proprietary process for silicone molding, LMS has grown to be one of the top three liquid silicone rubber molders in the world. With manufacturing capabilities in the U.S., Europe, China, and Mexico, LMS designs and manufactures critical flow control valves and components for a diverse list of key global markets, including commercial food and beverage, hygiene and personal care, medical device, analytical testing, packaging, and more. For more information contact Justin Sessink at 989-631-8030. www.lmsvalves.com | ||
published date: 06-17-2009 |
Pall's Membranes and Separation Materials Have Key Advantages
Pall collaborates with customers to understand design challenges and develop exceptional products that result in total product quality, greater efficiency, and lower project costs. Advantages of Pall membranes and separation materials:
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published date: 06-17-2009 |
Pall is the world leader in the design, production, and supply of membranes, filtration devices, and separation systems. The Company supplies products to nearly every industry in the world, including the most sophisticated and demanding applications in drug discovery, healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, aerospace, hydraulics, and industrial fluid processing. Pall is a global, multi-site manufacturer with an impressive portfolio of products, quality systems, and experience to meet industries' demanding material requirements.AorTech Announces Licensing Agreement Marking Entry into Cardiac Pacing and Neurostimulation Component Market
June 10, 2009 — AorTech International plc (AIM: AOR) the biomaterials and medical device development company, today announces its entry into the cardiac pacing and neurostimulation component marketplace with a licence agreement to supply both headers and lead insulation to an emerging neurostimulation company located in the US. The non-exclusive deal includes $250,000 in combined up-front and milestone payments and provisions for component manufacturing. The licensee anticipates first human use of this device in the second half of 2010.
AorTech develops and manufactures a range of biostable, implantable polymers, including Elast-Eon, the world's leading long-term implantable copolymer. With more than one million successful long-term human implants, Elast-Eon is currently used in cardiology, orthopaedic, urological and gastroenterological applications, including pacing leads, cardiac cannulae and stents. Devices manufactured from Elast-Eon have multiple US FDA PMA approvals, CE Marks, Australian TGA and Japanese Ministry of Health approvals. Elast-Eon's biostability is comparable to silicone while exhibiting excellent mechanical, blood contacting and flex-fatigue properties. It can be processed using conventional thermoplastic extrusion and moulding techniques. AorTech provides a range of materials in a variety of application-specific formulations and components for use in medical devices. For further information please contact: AorTech International plcFrank Maguire, Chief Executive Officer Tel: + 1 801 201 4336 Evolution Securities AorTech International plc | ||
published date: 06-10-2009 |
Tekra Corporation Certified to ISO 9001:2008
NEW BERLIN, Wisconsin (May 2009) — – Tekra Corporation, a plastic film manufacturer and distributor based in New Berlin, Wisconsin has recently been certified to the quality management system standard ISO 9001:2008. "Tekra provides products and services to quality critical medical and durable goods manufacturing markets where a commitment to ongoing quality management is an absolute necessity," said Mark Mawer, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We are pleased to have met the 9001:2008 standard and will continue to focus on customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement as the standard mandates." Tekra Corporation is a manufacturer of coated plastic films for the industrial graphics marketplace and distributes Dupont Teijin polyester, Sabic Innovative Plastics polycarbonate films and 3M adhesives and tapes throughout North America. For information contact Tekra at 800-448-3572 or visit www.tekra.com. | ||
published date: 06-09-2009 |
Colder Products Company Expands Small Bore Connector Offering to Widen Range of Applications
The intuitive design of the SRC cap and plug enables quick and easy sealing of tubing lines, even in fast-paced healthcare environments.
The SRC cap and plug is constructed of medical-grade, animal-free material to meet biocompatibility and other application requirements, including sterilization by irradiation or EtO. The unique, patent-pending design creates a reliable seal to ensure there are no drips or leaks, keeping the area around the connection and the flow path clean. For more information about pricing and availability, please contact Colder Products Company's inside sales department at 651-645-0091 or 800-444-2474. # # # About Colder Products Company CPC, Colder Products and Colder Products Company are registered trademarks | ||
published date: 06-08-2009 |
St. Paul, Minn. — June 8, 2009 – Colder Products Company, the leader in connections for medical devices, announces an expansion to the highly successful SRC product line. The addition of a cap and plug enhances the options available to medical device OEMs as they look for safe alternatives to luer fittings. The SRC cap and plug can be used as a dust cap to keep the fluid path free from contamination or to seal off the fluid path upon disconnection, preventing drips and spills. The result is a cleaner connection and a safer work environment for patients and healthcare professionals. 
"The tethered cap and plug enhancement was designed in direct response to customer feedback about the features needed in a small bore connector," said Jim Brown, medical business unit manager, Colder Products Company. "In addition to the safety of preventing misconnections with luer fittings, the SRC cap and plug protects medical fluids and prevents messy drips and spills. The integral tether allows it to be used as a cap or plug, therefore allowing customers to purchase only one part, reducing inventory and overall costs."Estane® Engineered Polymers Reactivates Formerly Discontinued Pellethane® TPU Series
• Pellethane® 2102-75A NAT TPU These products were discontinued due to concerns about raw material availability. "With the current business outlook and the predicted additional capacity coming on line, we are confident that we can meet the demand and are committed to supplying the entire portfolio of polycaprolactone-based products", says Jennifer Branton, product manager, Estane® Engineered Polymers. Pellethane® TPUs range from hard to soft and can be fabricated by a variety of methods from injection molding to extrusion to blow molding. These elastomers offer a combination of properties rarely seen in an engineering thermoplastic. Whether you need clarity and abrasion resistance, tensile strength and chemical resistance, or any other combination of properties, Pellethane® TPUs are an excellent choice. For more information about the benefits of and applications for Estane® TPUs, visit www.estane.com. To discuss a specific application or technical question, call 888-234-2436. Estane® and Pellethane® are registered trademarks of The Lubrizol Corporation.
About The Lubrizol Corporation With headquarters in Wickliffe, Ohio, The Lubrizol Corporation owns and operates manufacturing facilities in 19 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol has approximately 6,800 employees worldwide. Revenues for 2008 were $5.0 billion. For more information, visit www.lubrizol.com. ### | ||
published date: 06-07-2009 |
CLEVELAND, May 27, 2009 — The Estane® Engineered Polymers business of The Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ) announces the reactivation of Pellethane® 2102 thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs). The following products are part of the polycaprolactone series that is now available on a made-to-order basis:
SMC Ltd. Announces New Medical Micro Molding Capabilities
Somerset, Wisconsin (June 4, 2009) — SMC Ltd., a medical device contract manufacturer with locations in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, and India, announces the expansion of its capacities to include medical micro molding including implantable micro molding. SMC's manufacturing process of high yields in virgin resins, results in cost effective solutions ensuring non-degradation of material. This unique process delivers yields of 10,000 parts or 10,000 shots per pound minimum (including runner). Micro molding part sizes start at 0.003 cubic inches and smaller, or 0.045 grams or less. R&D development for unique applications is supported with a technology driven focused approach. A laboratory environment contributes to reduced risk from development through production. Complex part geometries with fast lead times and high repeatability can be attained in a wide of materials such as: PEEK, Ultem, Bioresorbable, and other engineered resins. With over 20 years serving the medical market, SMC brings expertise in validation protocols and processes to micro molding. About SMC Ltd. For More Information: | ||
published date: 06-05-2009 |
Specialty Coating Systems Announces New Features on Precisioncoat Spray and Dispense System
May 29, 2009 (Indianapolis, Indiana) — Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) has announced the availability of new features for its Precisioncoat spray and dispense system. The new features - programmable tilt and rotate, needle calibration and a vision system - join the system's easy-to-use offline programming as options that help customers achieve maximum efficiency, flexibility and accuracy as they spray and dispense coatings onto printed circuit assemblies, devices and other substrates. The Precisioncoat's programmable tilt and rotate functionality provides users the flexibility of 5-axes to coat alongside and underneath a wide variety of components. In addition to precise movement along the x, y and z axes, this option offers programmable tilt up to ± 60° and complete 360° rotation in 1° increments. The needle calibration feature is designed to verify that the needle is in the correct position. If the needle is offset, the program will adjust accordingly so that the board is accurately coated. The software can be set to calibrate at user-defined intervals or it can be manually calibrated at any time. The Precisioncoat's new vision system utilizes fiducial or pattern recognition to identify the exact location of the board to be coated. If the board is offset, the program will compensate for its new position, ensuring that each and every board is coated exactly as the user intended. The SCS Precisioncoat leads the industry in its programming capabilities and operational flexibility. Its proprietary software and state-of-the-art design provide customers with a robust and reliable system they can count on to meet demanding production schedules. To learn more about the SCS Precisioncoat, visit www.scsequip.com or call 317.244.1200. *Images available upon request. About Specialty Coating Systems Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Specialty Coating Systems offers industry-leading liquid coating systems including spray, spin and dip coating systems, thermal and UV cure systems and ionic contamination test systems. SCS also offers world-leading Parylene conformal coating services, systems and materials with over 35 years of application experience and expertise in the medical device, electronics, automotive and military industries. With locations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, SCS leverages its worldwide resources to meet customer needs on a global basis. To find out more about SCS and its leading product lines, visit www.scscoatings.com. #### | ||
published date: 06-05-2009 |
Avicenna Technology Specializies In Laser Machining Polyimide Tubing Components For Enhanced Functionality
Polyimide is a thermoset polymer made stronger by the introduction of heat in its curing process. Cured polyimide offers very strong mechanical and dielectric properties and provides superior stability when faced with chemical exposure and high temperatures. The thermoset nature of polyimide means that once cured, the material cannot be subsequently reflowed or melted. Such tubing offers medical device designers tight-tolerance components with superior column strength that transmit directional and torsional forces. Polyimide tubing can be further enhanced by customizing the component with expanded or reduced diameters, flared or tapered tips, cut holes or slots, and even marking or etching for identification. Advantages to laser machining polyimide tubing include: allowing distinct customization of a tubing that is otherwise difficult to modify; providing a flexible and amendable tooling discipline that does not require expensive hard-tooling; and accommodating rapid prototyping, design feasibility, and proof-of-concept services for design engineers. Avicenna uses Laser, Mechanical and Organizational Energy combined with sophisticated automation to prototype, plan, and manufacture products made from a wide range of materials. As an innovative manufacturer and solution provider, Avicenna bridges the technology-solution gap between customer ideas and commercialized products — products that change the way we live. For more information, visit us at www.avicennatech.com. # # # | ||
published date: 06-05-2009 |
Montevideo, Minn. / 28 May 2009 — Avicenna Technology, an innovative manufacturer primarily serving the medical device industry with Laser, Mechanical, and Organizational Energy services, specializes in laser machining polyimide tubing components. Laser machining, with its ability to remove material without contact, can successfully customize polyimide tubing where traditional thermal and mechanical techniques fail.Going for Gold: SafeEdge Wins SPE Thermoforming Division Award
SafeEdge is an industry first, based on its inward flange technology that eliminates the sharp edges found on a typical thermoformed tray. It was designed specifically for the medical industry to address the growing number of sterile breaches due to pouch punctures. Many medical device manufacturers require the rigidity of a tray for packaging, however, this tray is often placed inside a pouch versus a die cut lid to reduce cost. The interaction between the sharp flange of the rigid tray and the pouch can cause a breach of the sterile barrier. SafeEdge greatly reduces, or eliminates, this negative interaction. To execute the inward flange technology, Plastic Ingenuity utilized its expertise in thermoform machine building, thermoforming, and tool building to design and build a specialized inward flange thermoforming machine to produce this unprecedented plastic package. Winning the SPE Gold Award for SafeEdge is an honor for Plastic Ingenuity, who has been providing innovative thermoforming solutions since 1972. For more information, or a sample of the SafeEdge tray, contact Plastic Ingenuity at 608-798-3071 or visit www.plasticingenuity.com. | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
May 11, 2009 — Cross Plains, WI: Plastic Ingenuity was honored at the 2008 SPE Thermoforming Division annual conference with the prestigious "Gold Award" in the medical category for their SafeEdge package design. The competition is judged by peers and experts in the thermoforming industry which makes this award extremely rewarding.Plastic Ingenuity Wins 2009 AmeriStar Award
Packages are judged based on various criteria determined for excellence in multiple categories. These categories include: innovation, product protection, economics, package performance, marketing, and environmental impact. Upon project initiation, it was determined that the most important aspects of this package were the protection of the bone dissection tool, sterility, and accessibility. With this clear and determined focus, Plastic Ingenuity and Anspach worked together to develop a package that addressed these critical features. The previous package was not form fit, so the tool was able to move inside the package. Plastic Ingenuity was able to address this concern by designing the package with a snap feature that holds the tool firmly in place, yet loose enough that a gloved healthcare professional can easily remove the tool from the clamshell. The next challenge to address was accessibility. Prior to re-design, Anspach's bone dissection tool package was a capped tube that complicated the loading and removal of the tool. The new design incorporated a space for fingers to grip the device and remove, providing the end user with an easy open, trouble-free entrance to the tool. Other key characteristics were considered for this award. The new package has resulted in a reduction of more than 50 percent in packaging and processing time, and has a more integrated assembly. It also accommodates 70% of Anspach's dissection tools, although they are different in length, they all have the same diameter, and snap into the package perfectly. The Anspach Bone Dissection Clamshell by Plastic Ingenuity is a direct result of communication and feedback from the customer, a focused and uncompromising vision, and design innovation: all vital ingredients to creating an award winning package. Plastic Ingenuity has been a national leader in the light gauge custom thermoforming industry since 1972, and continues to pace the industry with its unparalleled innovation and R&D. For more information contact Plastic Ingenuity at 608-798-3071 or visit www.plasticingenuity.com. | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
May 20, 2009 — Cross Plains, WI: Plastic Ingenuity was recently awarded an AmeriStar Award in the Medical Category for their Anspach Bone Dissection Clamshell. The award was presented to Plastic Ingenuity at the 2009 IOPP sponsored Packaging Summit held in Chicago.Quick-Med and Avery Dennison Enter Into Joint Development Agreement
Companies to Pursue Development of NIMBUS® Antimicrobial Technology for Adhesives to Combat Infections Will Bring Highly Effective, Non-Leaching, and Affordable Barrier Protection to the Multi-Billion Global Medical Adhesives Market
"We are excited to team with Avery Dennison Corporation to incorporate our advanced NIMBUS technology in adhesives," said J. Ladd Greeno, CEO of Quick-Med Technologies. "Avery Dennison is the respected leader in developing advanced adhesives to meet the requirements of medical device manufacturers. This collaboration will leverage NIMBUS technology to a next generation of antimicrobial adhesives to address growing infection concerns." "Our partnership with Quick-Med will enable us to bring innovative, next-generation antimicrobial technology to meet the needs of both existing and potential customers," said Kevin Young, Vice President & General Manager of Avery Dennison Corporation. "NIMBUS technology will continue Avery Dennison innovation firsts by bringing much needed, uniquely effective and affordable, non-leaching antimicrobial protection to applications for the medical devices market." What makes NIMBUS different from other antimicrobial technology is its permanent bond and its ability to be effective even in the presence of large amounts of serum and body fluids. The active agent is permanently bonded to the substrate, keeping the biocide from depletion or leaching antimicrobials into the wound, while killing microbes (such as MRSA, VRE, and many others) that are present on the device. Being bound to the substrate keeps the antimicrobial at full strength; test results show that even in 90% serum, NIMBUS continues to kill microbes outperforming other antimicrobials. About NIMBUS® NIMBUS is a next-generation antimicrobial technology that is non-leaching, non-toxic, long-lasting and not blocked by organics such as blood, urine and perspiration. According to Gregory Schultz, Professor, Institute for Wound Research at the University of Florida and Past President of the Wound Healing Society, "NIMBUS poses no danger of bacteria developing resistance, or of releasing toxic material into the wound and impeding the wound healing process. It is a novel technology: bonded and effective even in high concentrations of body fluids." About Avery Dennison Corporation Avery Dennison is a recognized industry leader that develops innovative identification and decorative solutions for businesses and consumers worldwide. The Company's products include pressure-sensitive labeling materials; graphics imaging media; retail apparel ticketing and branding systems; RFID inlays and tags; office products; specialty tapes; and a variety of specialized labels for automotive, industrial and durable goods applications. A FORTUNE 500 Company with sales of $6.7 billion in 2008, Avery Dennison is based in Pasadena, California and employs more than 36,000 employees in over 60 countries. For more information, visit www.averydennison.com. About Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. is a life sciences company that is developing innovative technologies for the healthcare and consumer markets. For more information, see: www.quickmedtech.com. Contact — Quick-Med Technologies, Inc.: J. Ladd Greeno, CEO Contact — Avery Dennison Corporation: Holly A. Billik (440) 534.4892 © 2009 Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. NIMBUS® is a registered trademark of Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. Forward-looking statements (statements which are not historical facts) in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, any statements contained in this release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "may", "will", "to", "expect", "plan", "believe", "anticipate", "intend", "could", "would", "estimate", and/or "continue" or the negative or other variations thereof or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those risks that are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which may be accessed at the SEC's Edgar System at www.sec.gov. ### | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
Gainesville, Florida — April 22, 2009 — Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. and Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) announced today that they entered into a joint development and exclusive option agreement to collaborate in applying Quick-Med's proprietary NIMBUS® technology to adhesives for medical device and industrial applications.New quick-locking pin revolutionizes assembly operations
SLIC is an acronym for Self Locking Implanted Cotter, and as the name implies, the pin is secure and self locking through the use of an implanted plunger (locking detent) that effectively functions as a self-contained cotter pin. The pin features a solid, spring loaded "wedge shaped plunger" that combines ease of use with secure fastening. The wedge shaped plunger easily and automatically retracts when the pin is inserted into a hole. The angled, ramp-like face of the wedge ensures smooth insertion. Once fully inserted, the plunger springs back up, locking the pin into the application. The vertical face at the rear of the plunger prevents the pin from backing out. The SLIC™ Pin is intended for use as a semi-permanent quick locking pin and can be used in a multitude of applications. It replaces other labor intensive fastening combinations such as a clevis pin & cotter pin, a pin and retaining ring or a nut and bolt. It is used in the same manner as the aforementioned, but has much improved functionality and ease of assembly. The plunger is as strong as a respective cotter pin. The simple, one-piece design means easier, safer and faster assembly speeds. No tools are needed, there are no sharp ends as with cotter pins and there are less items to purchase and inventory. The SLIC Pin™ is especially beneficial in applications with blind holes and/or space constraints. The SLIC Pin™ is quickly and easily inserted from just one side. Unlike other tedious fastening methods, there is no need to access the other side to secure another fastener such as a cotter pin, a nut or a clip. The SLIC™ Pin can be configured to suit individual applications. It can be produced in a Clevis Pin head style, grab ring style or others styles. Various pin materials and finishes are available. For more information or Free Samples please contact Pivot Point Customer Service. Pivot Point Incorporated | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
Hustisford, WI, May 27, 2009 — Pivot Point Incorporated has invented a new quick locking pin named the SLIC Pin™ (U.S. patent number 6,872,039, foreign patents pending). The pin functions as a pin and cotter all in one.Teleflex Medical OEM Expands Jaffrey Facility; Creates 65 New Jobs
RALEIGH, N.C. — Teleflex Medical OEM − a global leader in precision extrusion and medical devices − announced today that it has completed the expansion of its medical device manufacturing facility in Jaffrey, NH, including the installation of a state-of-the-art clean room. The Teleflex Medical OEM segment also announced the addition of 65 new jobs at the site. To mark these milestones, the Teleflex Medical OEM segment will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, June 11 at the facility located in Jaffrey, NH. The invitation-only event will feature presentations by local dignitaries, guided tours, and a reception. The opening of the clean room marks a major investment by Teleflex Medical OEM in a facility that is known for its portfolio of advanced medical devices used in cardiology, radiology, urology, and other critical areas of medicine. Major medical equipment manufacturers routinely select Teleflex Medical OEM to design, prototype, and manufacture custom medical devices for special surgical applications. The climate-controlled clean room will provide additional space for the development and production of next-generation medical devices. Air quality, temperature, and humidity will be highly regulated to protect sterile product from contamination, and to create a clean environment to assemble and package sensitive medical components. To minimize potential contaminates, clean room visitors must wear lint-free, protective clothing that helps prevent human skin or hair particles from entering the room's atmosphere. | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
Sterigenics Hot Topics
Have you seen the new Feedback tab in our Toolbar? Please tell us about your experiences of working with Sterigenics, good or bad, we want to know. Professional Education Programs "The Industrial Sterilization of Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Biotech Products", a 3-day seminar in Itasca, USA — September 2009. Registration Details available from: info@sterigenics.com or call: 877-837-4523 "The Irradiation of Medical Devices" a 1-day seminar to be held in Espergaerde, Denmark on 29th October 2009. (Language – English). For more information call +32 16 525226 or e-mail: amarien@eu.sterigenics.com Trade Shows and Conferences Sterigenics will be exhibiting this month at the MD&M Exhibition in New York. Booth #1843. June 9 -11th 2009. Future Exhibitions: Medtec Shanghai, China, 8-10 September 2009, Stand #300 Industry Articles/ Information Lisa Foster will be co-leading the AAMI meeting on TC198/WG 2, Radiation Sterilization 8 -10th June 2009. | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
Sterigenics NewsValtronic Receives Third Consecutive Leading Edge Award
Midmarket companies now affect the region's economy as much as Fortune 500 companies. Only mid-market companies, with less than 500 million in annual revenue in the 17 county region served by EDGE are eligible for this award. Some of the criteria reviewed by the awarding panel include EBIT, number of spin-off's created, innovations that contributed to sales and community involvement. Jay Wimer, CEO of Valtronic Technologies accepted the award May 20th at the banquet for recipients, held at Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. "This award means more this year than ever as we have had to continue to innovate and look for opportunities in new markets as the economy struggles. Our employees' resourcefulness and dedication has allowed us to move forward even now. Their ability to find solutions and solve customer problems is the reason we are able to sustain. The skilled workforce of this region is second to none and a contributing factor to Northeast Ohio's economy and the community as a whole." Contact | ||
published date: 06-03-2009 |
CLEVELAND, OH — Valtronic Technologies (USA) Inc., has been awarded the 2008 Leading EDGE (Economic Development through Growth and Entrepreneurship) Award for the third consecutive year. The EDGE Award recognizes a select group of middle market companies in Northeast Ohio committed to growth and value creation. 95 companies in the region were honored with the award.DDL's "Packaging Quizzler" Recognizes Medical Device Packaging Professionals Knowledge of how Integrity is Maintained Throughout the Packaging Lifecycle
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — April 14, 2009 (www.testedandproven.com) — DDL, leader in medical device package, product and material testing, announced that via findings from their March "Packaging Quizzler" more than 60 percent of medical device packaging professionals understand which tests are necessary to ensure integrity is maintained throughout the validation process. The most recent "Packaging Quizzler" quizzed medical device packaging professionals on which physical tests are used to ensure medical device package integrity is maintained throughout the packaging lifecycle. The winner, Michael Grimm, of Synthes, used his knowledge of the importance of package leak testing to correctly answer the quizzler question. "I've worked in package testing for pharmaceuticals and medical devices for 11 years," Grimm said. "I am also an active member of the ASTM F02.40 subcommittee on Package Integrity, so the answer was clear to me." It's a common assumption that this test proves sterility when instead it proves that the package is still intact and has not been compromised. "After accelerated aging and distribution simulation testing package leak testing is used to ensure that the sterile barriers of the packaging system haven't been compromised throughout the validation process," Scott Levy, DDL Packaging Engineer, said. About DDL | ||
published date: 05-24-2009 |
DDL's Technical Director, Karen Greene, Educates Industry Professionals at this years Steris Isomedix Services Technical Conference, on Employing the TIR 22 for Effective ISO 11607 Compliance
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — April 13, 2009 — www.testedandproven.com — Karen Greene, Technical Director, DDL, Inc. presented at the Steris Isomedix Services Technical Conference in San Jose, CA. Greene presented "The Compliance Sweet Spot, Employing the TIR 22 for effective ISO 11607 part 1 and 2 Compliance." Greene's focus relative to terminal sterilization was the necessity to define the sterilization method early, select compatible packaging materials, prototype the package design and partner with your sterilization experts to rigorously evaluate the sterilized package's performance for sterilization and physical integrity/sterile barrier efficacy. The Steris Tech Team provided an in-depth conference to those involved with the terminal sterilization of medical devices by educating the audience on their three sterilization services and their applications—gamma irradiation, ethylene oxide and electron beam. The Tech Team presentations also discussed materials compatibility and selection, which included an update on standards related to medical device packaging. About DDL | ||
published date: 05-24-2009 |
DDL, leader in Medical Device Package, Product and Material Testing, Announces that the Completion of their new lab in Edison, NJ now Allows them to Perform DDL's Full Realm of Testing Services
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — April 13, 2009 — www.testedandproven.com — DDL, leader in medical device package, material and product testing, announced that their new lab in Edison, NJ is now capable of handling all of DDL's testing services. The Edison location has been calibrating chambers in an effort to start accepting east coast business; most of which has been handled in Minnesota. "It has been a tedious process, but we are up and running and ready for customers to ship products to our Edison location," Rick Roberti, DDL East Lab Manager, said. The Edison, NJ location finished the expansion of its new lab in late March and is now capable of handling DDL’s entire suite of package, product and material testing services, including shock testing, vibration testing, tensile testing, leak testing and validation services. Among the traditional medical device package, product and material testing services, DDL East has also taken over TCP's temperature controlled packaging services. "Our new lab represents a dramatic expansion to the temperature controlled package testing capabilities that were previously being handled by TCP," John Hart, DDL CEO said. "Our temperature controlled testing services have also expanded from our traditional pharmaceutical market to now include medical device manufactures." About DDL | ||
published date: 05-24-2009 |
Parker-TexMed, Now Producing ePTFE Tubing
On wounds, the TexPore™ PTFE tube allows a migration of cells to grow and attach to the micro-pores of the tube wall, creating a temporary layer of cells to aide in the wound healing process. In some applications, because the TexPore™ PTFE tube is permeable, it is used in the dispensing of special drugs or dyes that need to be released into the body quickly or in applications where gasses and liquids must be separated. Other applications include tissue sampling, insulators, water purification and filtration. TexPore™ PTFE is biocompatible, non-aging, non-toxic and autoclavable. Controlled pore sizes, close tolerance diameters and state-of-the-art measurement controls ensure that TexPore™ expanded PTFE tubes deliver continued optimum performance. Sizes range from 0.62" I.D. up to .400" I.D. and products are capable of operating at temperatures up to 500ºF. Tubing is priced according to size, configuration and quantity. Samples, price quotations and literature are available upon request. For more information contact: | ||
published date: 05-24-2009 |
Fort Worth, Tx May 26, 2009 — Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies, through its TexMed Business Unit announces the release of expanded PTFE tubing for medical applications. Parker-TexMed produces expanded PTFE, or ePTFE, by a controlled expansion of our tubing. The result is a chemically inert, micro porous tube offering properties and benefits not offered by the traditional TexFluor® PTFE tubes. Specifically, the tubing is expanded creating tiny, micro-pores to make the ePTFE tube more like a fabric rather than a traditional tube. Acting like a fabric, the pores in the TexPore™ PTFE permit cells to attach to the tube as well as escape from the tube, depending on the application. When needed, the pores on the tube can be manufactured close enough together to support the transfer of fluids without leakage.Revolutionary and robust – MILE encoder
Revolutionary and robust — MILE encoder. Small, robust and accurate, maxon motor's inductive micro encoder is a milestone in encoder technology with a diameter of 6mm
This is why highly accurate inductive encoders are ironless. The contrast is generated with eddy currents. These encoders have long been featured in large motors, but have not been produced for micromotors until now. maxon motor has invested heavily in the development of these greatly miniaturized inductive encoders. The result is the MILE, an inductive encoder where the contrast is generated with eddy currents. maxon's Inductive Little Encoder is the smallest of its kind in the world. The new MILE encoder delivers 64 pulses at up to 120,000 rpm, has 3 channels, line driver and integrated commutation outputs. Typical areas of application are medical technology, robotics and industrial applications in harsh environments. The MILE is available in combination with the EC6 brushless DC motor, extending the length of the combination by only 1mm. http://www.maxonmotorusa.com or info@maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 05-24-2009 |
The general basis of inductive encoders is that the inductance of one or more coils changes in relation to the material used. For example, a semi-circular iron core representing the material measure could be directed to a coil which then changes its inductance. However, there are drawbacks to simple inductive encoders, such as the temperature dependence of the soft iron/ferrite. External magnetic fields can also change the permeability of the material used, well below saturation point.50W External Power Supply offers "Double Isolation" for Medical Class "B, BF & C" Applications
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published date: 05-15-2009 |
GlobTek's GTM51060 series of external power supplies offer output power available up to 50W. Double Insulation Mechanical Configurations, Regulated Outputs voltage from: 5V to 48Vdc in 0.1V increment, up to 50W of continuous output power. Style enclosed power supplies are housed in Impact Resistant non-vented Polycarbonate Upper and Lower Case, Thermal Conduction Cooling, Case Dimensions: 150L x 80W x 45H (mm) This Family features: Regulated output with very low ripple, Built-in Protection features: O.C., S.C., O.V., Thermal, accepts Universal Input: 90-264Vac, designed to meet Safety Agency Requirements: international 60601.1 and complies with EMI/RFI Regulations, EMC Directives/ CE and FCC Class B for ITE/Medical Applications. Modified and Custom Designs are Also Available.Insight Exhibiting at Booth #2624 at MD&M East, June 9-11 in New York City
Insight Product Development has been a design and development partner to medical device companies for 20 years and has seen first-hand the evolution of devices and the healthcare industry. Insight has worked on products in virtually every category, from high-volume disposables to installed capital equipment. "Innovation and medical devices have always been synonymous," said Senior Partner Craig Scherer, Insight. "While other industries may cut back on innovation and R&D, medical companies must continue to push through because of the length of time to market and the constant changes in patient needs and technology." In addition to exhibiting, Insight is also a 2009 Medical Design Excellence Award winner, the company's fifth MDEA. The winning entry was with Insight's client St. Jude Medical on their Merlin.net Patient Care Network, an integrated system enabling telemetry transmissions from patients' implanted medical devices from the comfort of their home. Insight conducted user research which guided the direction of the program and Insight did the industrial design work on the Merlin@home transmitter. The MDEA winners are honored during an award ceremony on June 10th during the MD&M East Conference and Exposition. For more information on Insight please visit www.insightpd.com/medical. # # # | ||
published date: 05-14-2009 |
May 14, 2009 — Insight will be exhibiting at Booth #2624 at MD&M East in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Center, June 9-11. Insight staff will be there to showcase the company’s capabilities and recent projects and case studies and answer questions about the breadth of medical work Insight has completed.1-Q-EC amplifier DEC Module 24/2
Compact speed controller for brushless DC motors with Hall Sensors. The DEC Module 24/2, a digital 1-quadrant amplifier with speed controller for brushless EC motors with Hall Sensors up to 48 Watt and a surface area measuring less than 5 cm2.
Download all-inclusive operating manual (including Motherboard Design Guide) at www.maxonmotorusa.com. http://www.maxonmotorusa.com or info@maxonmotorusa.com | ||
published date: 05-13-2009 |
Maxon's DEC module 24/2 is a well-priced, miniaturized, powerful plug-in module that can be seamlessly integrated into most complex applications with little effort. The wide supply voltage range of 8-24 VDC (alternatively 5 VDC) and a continuous output current of 2A, permits flexible multifunctional operation at a high efficiency factor. The amplifier offers a large number of inputs and outputs (such as enabling, speed ranges, direction of rotation presetting, current limiting, operational status) and comprehensive protection features (such as over-current, undervoltage/overvoltage, thermal overload, blockage and short circuit). The amplifier is also designed for a maximum motor speed of 80,000 rpm. Two connector arrays arranged in a 2.54 mm (0.1") pattern support easy connectivity and integration into the OEM-side motherboard. A comprehensive Motherboard Design Guide to assist OEM's in their circuit board design as well as a detailed Evaluation Board for the use during initial starting up is available at our website.DSM PTG Hires its 100th employee as its business continues to expand
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 2, 2009 — DSM PTG (formerly The Polymer Technology Group/"PTG"), a preeminent biomaterials company, announced today that the Company has recently surpassed the 100 employee mark, necessitated by the robust demand for its proprietary biomaterials and medical device components. The Company also announced that it has appointed two new executives to its management team: Frederik G. Hoogendijk is DSM PTG's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately; and, Robert F. Evans assumes the role of Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing, also effective immediately. Last year the Polymer Technology Group became part of DSM Biomedical. Through this acquisition, the combined companies have achieved a leading position in the field of long-term implantable biomedical polymers along with a technology platform that is applicable to numerous additional materials to address the therapeutic needs of the medical technology industry—ranging from coatings to biomedical materials to drug delivery platforms. "We are extremely pleased that the robust growth of our biomaterials and medical device components business continues to result in the need for further expansion of our operations, including the hiring of new employees," said Bob Ward, CEO of DSM PTG. "The combined portfolios of the former Polymer Technology Group and DSM Biomedical have resulted in the broadest portfolio of biomedical materials currently available in the worldwide market, and we are very bullish about our future." Frederik G. Hoogendijk was previously Director of Finance & Control for DSM Fine Chemicals since 2006. He has held a variety of financial control positions with increasing responsibility across several DSM-owned businesses since 1996. He holds a master's degree in business economics from Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Robert F. Evans was previously Global Sales & Marketing Manager for DSM Dyneema since 2006. He has held a variety of marketing and sales positions with increasing responsibility across several DSM-owned businesses since 1996. He holds an MBA from the University of Southern Indiana (Evansville) and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.). ABOUT DSM PTG Headquartered in Berkeley, Calif., DSM PTG specializes in the research, development, design, scale-up, and manufacture of new polymers, medical devices, and components. DSM PTG's operations of 70,000-square-feet comprise the equipment and expertise to support production-scale polymer synthesis through contract medical device manufacturing. In 2008 the company was acquired by Royal DSM N.V., the Netherlands-based global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company. DSM Biomedical's guiding mission is to provide proprietary materials-based solutions that enable the replacement, repair, enhancement and ultimately the regeneration of tissue and organ function. Contact: | ||
published date: 05-08-2009 |
Eurogentec Launches New Oligo Synthesis Facility
"This new facility is a key component of the strategic plan for Eurogentec to grow its global business in the life science research, molecular diagnostic, and clinical laboratory markets," stated Diane Wolfe, General Manager of Eurogentec North America. "Our goal now is to directly serve the North American market by producing the same high-quality, custom oligos that Eurogentec S.A. has supplied to the US and Canada for the past seven years." The San Diego production site, already ISO 9001 certified for the manufacture of research-grade oligonucleotides, will be in compliance with ISO 13485:2003 and the cGMP statutes detailed in 21 CFR Part 820 by the end of 2009. "Our intent is to harmonize processes between our US facility and the European manufacturing site, which is already ISO 13485 certified," remarked Ms. Wolfe. In addition, Jean-Pierre Delwart, CEO of Eurogentec, commented that "the facility's state-of-the-art instrumentation for multi-scale oligonucleotide synthesis, purification and quality control position Eurogentec North America to meet the rapidly growing needs of life scientists. Our markets include academic, biotech, pharmaceutical, agricultural, veterinary, bio-defense, diagnostic and clinical laboratories. In addition, a suite of segregated, limited access Class 100,000 clean rooms will allow us to meet the growing demand for GMP-compliant custom oligonucleotides for ASRs, LDTs and in vitro diagnostic applications." Eurogentec North America will be announcing the opening of its new facility at the upcoming TIDES (Oligonucleotide and Peptide) 2009 Conference in Las Vegas. An evening reception is planned for May18th in the Veranda Room at the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa. Guests will have the opportunity to meet with Jean-Pierre Delwart, Peter Haima (Director, IVD Services), Diane Wolfe and members of the Eurogentec North American team. About Eurogentec Eurogentec S.A. is a leading global supplier of innovative reagents, kits, specialty products and custom services to scientists in the life science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and diagnostic markets. Experts in small- and large-scale DNA, RNA and peptide synthesis, Eurogentec S.A. is an experienced Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO), and is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 13485:2003 certified. It operates two full-service, state-of-the-art GMP-compliant manufacturing facilities in Belgium that provide high-value custom biologics and a wide range of oligonucleotide-based components for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Eurogentec S.A. is comprised of three inter-related business units:
Eurogentec S.A. is a privately held company headquartered in Liège, Belgium, with subsidiaries in North America, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland and additional production facilities in Japan and Singapore. Eurogentec employs 300+ people globally. ### | ||
published date: 05-08-2009 |
May 8, 2009—San Diego, CA—Eurogentec S.A., an established European supplier of custom oligonucleotides, peptides and specialty reagents to the life science markets, announces the opening of a new North American manufacturing facility located in San Diego, California.GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers Introduces Cleaner, "Greener" TPEs for Medical Tubing
New VERSAFLEX™ grades are made without phthalates and halogens and are exceptionally low in extractables
ANAHEIM, Calif. — February 10, 2009 — GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers, a PolyOne business and global leader in high-performance, custom-formulated thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), will exhibit a new portfolio of materials at MDM West in booth #1455. These five VERSAFLEX™ HC TPE materials comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements, are made without phthalates or halogens, and feature extremely low extractables. Concerns about the impact of plastics on health, safety and the environment are causing medical device manufacturers to take a hard look at traditional polymer materials that incorporate halogens, utilize phthalate-based plasticizers, or present the risk of extractables. These five FDA-compliant materials provide customers with new choices for designing safer, cleaner and more eco-conscious medical tubing. Choosing VERSAFLEX HC TPE can help tubing manufacturers comply with current and anticipated regulations while delivering high performance and quality. "There's currently a lot of discussion about the health risks of phthalates and other plastic additives, and although the jury is still out, the clear trend is for increasing restrictions in the use of these substances," said Joe Kutka, technology launch manager, GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers. "Added to this is the mandate to create products that can be recycled or, alternatively, incinerated or disposed of without releasing halogens. To help our customers stay on top of upcoming regulations, we've created a full portfolio of recyclable, medical-grade TPEs that avoid phthalates and halogens and provide many desirable properties." The VERSAFLEX HC product family comprises five grades: three offer high clarity for applications such as IV tubing, and the other two are translucent and provide excellent high-temperature performance for autoclaving. All grades can be extruded or injection molded, offering manufacturers the option to use a single material for both tubing and connectors.
As a leading custom TPE compounder, GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers offers extensive resources for customizing these VERSAFLEX grades to meet specific requirements for feel, modulus, hardness and other properties. About GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers About PolyOne # # # To access PolyOne's news library online, please go to http://www.polyone.com/newsrnoller@glscorp.com Media Contacts: Rick Noller Michelle Maniscalco Joseph Bennett | ||||
published date: 05-07-2009 |
The MedTech Group Acquires TDC Medical
February 4, 2009 The MedTech Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of TDC Medical. This new partnership combines 30 years of MedTech's experience and success in plastic technology and medical product manufacturing with TDC's reputation for excellence in medical product design, development and intellectual property creation. "The combination of The MedTech Group and TDC Medical brings forth unparalleled customer service, world-class product engineering and cutting edge manufacturing know-how and technology" said George Blank, MedTech's President. He continued, "We intend to combine both companies' passion for customer satisfaction to support the needs of emerging and established OEM customers in the medical marketplace." TDC Medical has design and development facilities in Marlborough, MA, Sunnyvale, CA and Boulder, CO. MedTech has manufacturing facilities in South Plainfield and Middlesex, NJ, West Haven, CT, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico and Heredia, Costa Rica. The managements from both companies are excited about the merger due to shared similar ethical cultures, exclusive focus on the healthcare field and concentration on customer success. Contact: Ms. Jennifer Bivona Mr. Rich Abraham | ||
published date: 05-05-2009 |
Foam Swab for Precise Cleaning
Foam Swab for Precise Cleaning
Qosina offers over 5,000 SKUs in its inventory including many varieties of swabs, brushes, vials, tubing, pipettes, clamps, caps, syringes and adapters and an extensive selection of cleanroom supplies to meet your needs. Call our Customer Service Specialists to obtain our most recent catalog, request a sample, or place an order at +1 (631) 242-3000, fax +1 (631) 242-3230 or e mail info@qosina.com. Visit us at www.qosina.com to see our latest products. Custom sourcing service is available through our knowledgeable specialists using Qosina's extensive resources. Qosina is a worldwide supplier of thousands of stock and custom-made OEM disposable components including connectors, luers, caps, clamps, adapters, stopcocks, valves, swabs, spikes, syringes and tubing. Qosina operates an ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 registered facility. Contact: | ||
published date: 05-04-2009 |
Edgewood, NY, February 19, 2009 — Qosina introduces an economical precision swab (Part # 18044) to facilitate your equipment cleaning needs. The 3.6 mm head is ultrasonically welded onto a polypropylene handle for adhesive-free processing. The polyurethane foam head minimizes the chance for contamination from cotton lint and is excellent for particle entrapment or solvent distribution. At 2.75-inches long, this compact swab is particularly useful in cleaning hard to reach areas such as optics or other small angled corners.New Capabilities for Higher Performance Disposables
This focus on performance improvement was the inspiration for the recent installation of new leading edge capabilities:
The addition of these capabilities rounds out the most diverse platform of edge generation and point technologies available on the market. Our proprietary "sharps" processing techniques using the latest CNC sharpening and pointing equipment in combination with leading edge electrochemical finishing technology enables IncisionTech to supply the most critical cutting, piercing, and delivery components and sub-assemblies. "Our goal is to improve therapeutic outcomes by offering the true functional expertise needed in the critical areas of device performance for minimally invasive surgery" said Peter Harris, CEO. About IncisionTech - IncisionTech manufactures cutting, piercing, and delivery systems for surgical devices. Our IncisionLab - Center Of Excellence is where applied science improves cutting and piercing device performance. Products include surgical blades, trocars, custom scalpels, endoscopic scissors, tissue cutters, biopsy punches, sharpened tubes, specialty access needles, probes, tips, cannula, stylets, shaver blades and bone saws. IncisionTech | ||
published date: 05-04-2009 |
Staunton, Virginia. November 21, 2008 – IncisionTech announces the addition of new capabilities designed to improve the performance of disposable devices for OEMs. As a Tier 1 supplier of critical cutting, piercing, and delivery systems to the most sophisticated medical device OEMs, IncisionTech is focused exclusively on improving device performance.New GORE™ Adsorbent Filter Streamlines Medical Device Manufacturing
GORE™ Adsorbent Filters reduce device manufacturing costs in several ways. First, device manufacturers can avoid the capital investment in equipment and operating expenses for filter assembly — including raw material and filter scrap — and reduce manufacturing and quality assurance overhead. Second, filter integration processes and equipment can be simplified because of a simple peel-and-stick method. Third, manufacturers can streamline the supply chain and consolidate their supplier base. These cost reductions lead to productivity gains in operations. According to Tom Quinci, Gore's North American medical filtration product manager, one of Gore's core values is to develop products based on the specific need of our customers and the requirements of their device, a value they call fitness for use. "In working with medical device manufacturers, we found they were using complicated processes to produce filter subassemblies. Universally, production groups wanted a combined product. 'We're not a filter company, we make medical devices,' one customer explained. In the end, we developed a product to meet the needs of a broad customer base." This new filter combines filtration and adsorption media with a flexible automation process to produce cost-effective adsorption filters. Quinci adds, "Our product testing has confirmed the filter's performance and verified its most important functionality – liquid retention. The GORE™ Adsorbent Filter simplifies our customers' manufacturing processes and enhances the performance of their devices." W. L. Gore & Associates is a world-renown manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products and is perhaps best known as the inventors of ePTFE and the makers of GORE-TEX® fabric. With more than $2.5 billion in annual sales and 8,000 employees in 80 countries throughout the world, W. L. Gore & Associates provides diverse, high-performance solutions in pharmaceutical, consumer, industrial, electronic, medical and surgical markets. For more information about W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. and Gore Medical Membrane Technologies, call 1.800.455.4670, or visit www.gore.com/medical_membranes. | ||
published date: 04-30-2009 |
Elkton, Maryland, April 17, 2009 — W. L. Gore & Associates, a world leader in supplying high-performance, specialized filtration products, has developed the new GORE™ Adsorbent Filter, an integrated filtration solution that simplifies the manufacturing process of medical devices without compromising product performance. With both activated carbon media and Gore's proprietary expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) membrane, this new filter delivers the best combination of adsorption, high airflow, and liquid resistance available in the market today.ASG Medical Systems, LLC is pleased to announce our NEW Advanced Guidewire Feeder (AGF) with in-line cutter!
ASG Medical Systems, LLC is pleased to announce our NEW Advanced Guidewire Feeder (AGF) with in-line cutter!
March 25, 2009; West Palm Beach, FL — ASG Medical Systems, LLC remains in the forefront of the Medical Device Industry technology with its introduction of our Advanced Guidewire Feeder (AGF) with in-line cutter! The Advanced Guidewire Feeder (AGF) with in-line cutter introduces a "cut-to-length" capability for automated guidewire grinding and can make 10 or more guidewires from a single input wire. This AGF, paired with your centerless grinder, can now feed, grind, and cut your guidewires to precise lengths from 10-400 cm. These two process steps-in-one save labor, floor space, and cycle time, meaning a faster throughput and higher output, tighter customer specs and quality, less scrap, and fewer grinders needed! To speed set-up time and process changeovers, the AGF is computer controlled with a color touch screen, an automatic bar code recipe selection, measurement during processing, and super precise wire position feedback to your grinder.
Advanced Guidewire Feeder (w/Cutter)
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published date: 04-29-2009 |
Teleflex Medical OEM Granted ISO 13485:2003 Quality Certification for Plymouth Facility
RALEIGH, N.C. — Teleflex Medical OEM, a leader in interventional and diagnostic catheters, has achieved ISO 13485:2003 certification for its catheter fabrication and assembly facility located in Plymouth, Minnesota. Awarded by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) through BSI Management Systems, this certification signifies compliance with stringent international standards in the manufacturing of medical devices. To be certified to the standard, a company must implement a quality management system to demonstrate the ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements. The scope of this quality management system encompasses training, production, purchasing of products, and delivery to the customer. As part of the ISO certification process, a team of auditors performed on-site assessments, verified documented procedures, and examined the overall operations at the Plymouth site. The ISO is a worldwide network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries. While compliance with ISO standards is voluntary, they are widely accepted by both public and private sectors worldwide. "We are very pleased to have attained this ISO certification, as it says a tremendous amount about the quality of the catheter-based products produced at the Plymouth facility and the systems we have in place to ensure standards are met," said Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Manager Joel Ericson. "This is not an easy designation to receive. I thank the entire Plymouth staff for their dedication and hard work that has made this certification possible." The ISO certification of the Plymouth facility represents a major achievement for Teleflex Medical OEM: All of the company's OEM facilities meet ISO requirements and are certified. | ||
published date: 04-28-2009 |
Specialty Coating Systems Releases New Spin Coater Series
April 21, 2009 (Indianapolis, Indiana) — Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) is pleased to introduce the new SCS 6800 Spin Coater Series, an entry level spin coater designed with the same world-class quality and reliability that customers have come to expect from SCS products and services. The 6800 Spin Coater Series makes it simple to accurately apply liquid coating materials such as photoresists, polyimides, metal-organics, dopants, silica films, and most organic and aqueous solutions. The coater's proprietary circuitry provides precise control of spin speed and acceleration/deceleration rates. SCS Equipment Program Manager Bill Boyd states, "SCS' 6800 Spin Coater Series is an exceptional value, offering our customers an affordable, quality unit for their research and development laboratories." The 6800 Spin Coater Series is controlled by an easy-to-use three-button keypad and an LCD display on the front panel. Programmable and nonprogrammable units are available, with options to maximize coating efficiency. For more information about the 6800 Spin Coater Series, visit scsequip.com or call 317.244.1200. *Images available upon request. About Specialty Coating Systems #### | ||
published date: 04-27-2009 |
Oliver Medical and TOLAS Healthcare Packaging are 'Better Together' as Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA... Oliver Medical and TOLAS Healthcare Packaging, two very successful medical device and pharmaceutical packaging suppliers, have come together and will now operate under the single name Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging. "Combining our individual company names reflects the consolidation of our extensive resources, technology and experience while also acknowledging the individual histories and strengths each company brings to the organization," said Jerry Bennish, CEO and President of Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging. "Together, as Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging, our increased presence in the market, broadened product line, and expanded coating and manufacturing operations place us in an even better position to provide our customers with the industry's best medical device and pharmaceutical packaging solutions," said Bennish. Manufacturing and administrative activities at all Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging locations will continue as usual. Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging provides unsurpassed quality, innovative packaging, superior adhesives, and expert technical support to medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide. About Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging For more information, contact: | ||
published date: 04-23-2009 |
International Detachable Power Cordsets
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published date: 04-15-2009 |
GlobTek's 2-3 Conductor IEC International Detachable Power Cordsets are approved to international safety agency requirements. Designs are available in various lengths, cable types, conductor gauge, termination, and jacket color. Cordsets are ideal for Portable Equipment, Communication, Video, Consumer Electronics, Instrumentation and Home Use Medical Equipment. N. American, European, Australian, British & other international cordsets are available from stock. VERY Low Cost make these power supplies perfect for OEM requirements. International Power Supplies are also available.Rollomatic Inc. displays medical tool dexterity at MD&M East 2009
MUNDELEIN, IL (19 March 2009) Rollomatic SA, a Swiss-manufacturer of precision CNC tool grinding machines, will exhibit at the MD&M East 2009 in New York, NY—Booth #3028. With particular emphasis on grinding precision medical tooling for cranial, dental & surgical applications, the GrindSmart® product line is the ideal solution for today's competitive medical tool manufacturer. The GrindSmart® Product Line Features:
Rollomatic continues to provide outstanding service and support from our U.S. headquarters in Mundelein, IL, as well as our satellite office on the west coast. For more information, visit us at: www.rollomaticusa.com
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published date: 04-03-2009 |
Qosina Self-Sealing Sterilization Pouches
Qosina's inventory includes sterilization accessories, including sterilization indicators, CSR wraps, additional bag types, instrument covers and tape. Call our Customer Specialists to obtain our latest catalog, request a sample, or place an order at +1 (631) 242-3000, fax +1 (631) 242-3230 or e mail info@qosina.com. Visit us at qosina.com to see our latest products. Custom sourcing service is available through our knowledgeable specialists using Qosina's extensive resources. Qosina is a worldwide supplier of thousands of stock and custom-made OEM disposable components including connectors, luers, caps, clamps, adapters, stopcocks, valves, swabs, spikes, syringes and tubing. Qosina operates an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 registered facility. Contact: | ||
published date: 04-02-2009 |
Edgewood, NY, April 2, 2009—Qosina presents self-sealing sterilization pouches composed of a blue tinted PET polypropylene front and a surgical paper back. A ¾-inch medical grade tape closure provides a quick and easy seal. The bags are available in a variety of stock sizes from 3 inches by 9 inches, to 12 inches by 18 inches and are suitable for autoclave or EtO sterilization. Custom printing and sizing options are available.
TRICOR Systems Inc. Receives ISO 13485 Certification
Contract Manufacturer Achieves Another Significant Milestone in 32 Year History Elgin IL., March 17, 2009 — TRICOR Systems Inc., a medical device contract manufacturer of numerous medical devices, today announced that it had received an ISO 13485 Certificate of Registration issued by NSAI (National Standards Authority of Ireland). This certification indicates that TRICOR has implemented a quality system that conforms to the exacting International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for medical devices. ISO 13485 is an internationally recognized standardization system which defines standards for the design, development, production and distribution of medical devices. It ensures conformity with specified quality controls in the development and manufacturing of safe and effective Class I, II and III medical devices. According to Thomas Allen, Sales Manager for TRICOR Systems, "ISO 13485 certification represents a major milestone for TRICOR and our customers. This certification is one more example of TRICOR's commitment to the highest quality and process standards allowing TRICOR to better meet the requirements of our medical customers." The ISO 13485 certification is added to previous certifications of ISO 9001:2000, and FDA registration improving TRICOR's already superior standards for meeting customer needs and expectations, including compliance with regulatory requirements. About TRICOR Systems Inc. TRICOR Systems is a privately held electronic contract manufacturing and design facility founded in 1967, located in Elgin, IL USA, providing prototype and production services for a wide range of customers. The company is a high-mix provider of electronics manufacturing services to customers in the medical, defense, aerospace, industrial and instrumentation sectors. TRICOR has established itself as a mentor to new companies and products entering into the medical equipment field allowing customers to tap into their engineering, manufacturing and exceptional customer service resources. For more information about TRICOR Systems Inc., please visit www.tricor-systems.com or at MD&M East Booth 2081 Company Contact: | ||
published date: 04-02-2009 |
Fast Cure Medical Adhesive to the Rescue
Hackensack, NJ. February 25, 2009 — Master Bond EP3HTMED represents a breakthrough in medical adhesive technology. It combines the ease of fast curing with a "no-mix" one part epoxy yet it fully complies with USP Class Vl requirements for biocompatibility. This adhesive system exhibits an almost instant cure, rare in such a high strength epoxy, requiring as little as 5 minutes at 300°F to cure. It is extremely durable, has excellent adhesion and optimizes productivity. The one part, heat curing medical device adhesive produces high strength bonds, particularly in the lap shear mode, over the wide service temperature range of ‑60°F to 400°F. EP3HTMED withstands impact, vibration and stress fatigue cracking while maintaining the moisture, creep and corrosion resistance typical of epoxy adhesives. It possesses superior chemical resistance, particularly to chemical sterilants, as well as to other types of sterilization including ETO, radiation and autoclaving. EP3HTMED adheres well to a wide variety of substrates including glass, ceramics, most plastics and is excellent for bonding metals. Finally, the one part no-mix feature allows for unlimited working life, as the material will not cure unless heated to 250°F. The medical adhesive can improve the design of joints and the assembly of disposable and reusable medical devices, as well as in the production of medical electronics, especially where high adhesive performance and speed of production are paramount. Read more about Master Bond's medical adhesives: http://www.masterbond.com/produse/produse_med.html or contact: Technical Support: Phone: +201-343-8983 Fax: 201-343-2132 E-mail: technical@masterbond.com | ||||
published date: 04-01-2009 |
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Radio-Opaque Epoxy in the Service of Radiographic Imaging
As a medical device adhesive it features excellent resistance to chemicals including water, oils, fuels, acids, bases and salts and holds up well to thermal cycling. Once cured, the epoxy has excellent electrical insulation properties. The volume resistivity exceeds 1014 ohm cm. The radio-opaque epoxy adhesive adheres well to metals, glass, ceramics, rubber and many plastics. EP21BAS offers a wide service temperature range of ‑60°F to +250°F. Read more about Master Bond's medical adhesives: http://www.masterbond.com/produse/produse_med.html or contact: Technical Support: Phone: +201-343-8983 Fax: 201-343-2132 E-mail: technical@masterbond.com | ||
published date: 04-01-2009 |
Hackensack, N.J., February 25, 2009 — Master Bond EP21BAS is an innovative radio-opaque The World's Longest Balloon
Where can you go for $340 or €340 even? Not very far these days... but where could you go with a thin walled balloon that is 340 mm long? Places you've never been before. This design combination of the tubing and the balloon is so good, that the world's longest balloon was recently produced in a nylon based material... 340 mm long with double wall .0014" and burst strength > 17 atm... There is nothing like this in the industry today. Precision Extrusion Inc., of Glens Falls, New York, in conjunction with a new balloon technology company, is offering extruded tube and balloon design for rapid prototyping of PTCA, PTA, Neural, Renal, Gastric, below the knee (BTK) and Kyphoplasty products, to include the world's longest balloon, 340 mm. The new company has developed its own novel balloon technology and is in the process of filing Patents on the new and innovative designs. The new company has over 20 years of experience in the production of angioplasty type balloons, in a wide range of sizes, shapes, overall profiles, and materials, polyamide and polyurethane for example. The company is capable of rapid turn-around for new designs/development runs and prototyping, as well as high volume production at very competitive costs. The company can provide material selection and tube size design consulting as well as the finished balloon product customized to the end user’s needs. Sizes can be from 0.5 mm to 20 mm diameter and 5 mm to 340 mm long... other performance characteristics on request. | ||||
published date: 03-24-2009 |
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Polymer Science releases new silicone gel adhesive products for MD&M West
Leveraging the benefits of silicone technology for healthcare applications, Polymer Science perfects its adhesive offerings MONTICELLO, IN/February 2, 2009: Polymer Science, Inc. will introduce a new line of silicone gel adhesives at MD&M West (booth 1646) from February 10-12 in Anaheim, California. To meet the demands of the medical market for innovative skin contact applications, Polymer Science has developed three new silicone gel adhesives for use in wound dressings, medical devices, hypertrophic scar therapies, and cosmeceutical patches. PS-1154, PS-1155, and PS-1156 offer the following unique combination of attributes:
"Silicone gel adhesives are the future of advanced wound care," said Bill Witchger, CEO of Marian, Inc., the parent company of Polymer Science. "They offer a superior alternative to acrylic adhesives and will make a real difference in neonatal and geriatric care." In addition to PS-1154, PS-1155, and PS-1156, Polymer Science also offers customized silicone gels that can be coated as continuous or discontinuous configurations on a variety of substrates and backings. Polymer Science manufactures products in controlled environments, has a documented quality system compliant with 21 CFR 820, is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer, and is certified to the current ISO 9000:2008 standard to ensure that a consistent quality is maintained. For samples of PS-1154, PS-1155, and PS-1156, please visit Polymer Science at MD&M West (booth 1646), which runs February 10-12, 2009. If you are unable to attend MD&M West, please request samples at www.polymerscience.com or call us at 1-888-533-7004. About Polymer Science, Inc. About Marian, Inc. CONTACT | ||
published date: 03-24-2009 |
Outlet for Power Distribution Units Streamlines Assembly
New Appliance outlet is equipped with IDC terminals
The 6610 comes with a protective back cover to prevent electrical shock, which also serves as a “wire press” to push the wires into the IDC terminals. Terminals are arranged either along or across the connector pin axis for both horizontal and vertical mounting. The standard version accepts insulated solid wires with cross section 12 AWG / 2.5 mm2. .Versions with combination IDC and a quick-connect or solder terminal, for separate wiring of the line connection, are also available. The unit snaps in and is available in versions for 0.8 mm – 3.0 mm panels. The 6610 appliance outlet F is according to IEC 60320. It is approved by cURus at 15 A at 125/250 VAC and ENEC at 10A / 250VAC, and is qualified for applications in accordance with IEC/EN 60950. For more information on the 6610 go to http://www.schurterinc.com/new_pems or for sales support contact Cora Umlauf at 800 848-2600 or info@schurterinc.com. About Schurter Inc. | ||
published date: 03-11-2009 |
SANTA ROSA, California, February 11, 2009 -- Schurter introduces the first of its kind appliance outlet, using IDC technology. Series 6610 is ideal for use in power distribution units and other equipment where multiple outlets are banked in series. Unlike traditional outlets, which require wiring of individual quick connect or solder terminals, the 6610 with IDC technology allows wires to be bussed across the terminals, thereby connecting common terminals all at once. Replace conventional wiring with high density, reliable flexible circuits
Save up to 75% on space and weight with these tight tolerance, fine-line, compact and flexible wiring packages for medical and aerospace applications.
Minco flex circuits offer a number of benefits:
Different styles of flex circuits offer different advantages and benefits. In addition to simpler, single layer flex circuits, Minco can design and manufacture double layer, multilayer, multilayer with no plated through-holes, rigid flex, Flex-Coils™ and integrated flex circuits that incorporate sensors or Thermofoil™ flexible heaters. In addition to a wide number of flex circuit styles, Minco offers many flex circuit design options including rigid-flex hybrid circuits, stiffeners, factory-forming, wave solder carriers, pins, coils, shielding, special electronics populations, selective bonding and integral connectors, heaters and sensors. Minco’s Quality Management System is certified to ISO 9001:2000/AS9100B. Minco flex circuits are proven. Successful installations can be found in the space shuttle engine controls, pacemakers, laser gyros, surgical tools, security detectors, the Trident II missile, and Mark 46 torpedoes. Minco documents, monitors and verifies all processes. Optional testing, cycling and micro-sectioning are available. A Prototype Flex Circuit Design Kit is also available (http://www.minco.com/products/flex.aspx?id=631). A Flex Circuit Design Guide can be ordered in print or downloaded (http://www.minco.com/contactus/literaturerequest.aspx). The Minco Engineer2Engineer Community gives you ready access to engineers at Minco who are happy to discuss your flex circuit requirements. You can access this community via the website (http://www.minco.com), or phone 763-571-3121 for more information. About Minco | ||
published date: 03-10-2009 |
Minneapolis, Minn., June 2, 2008 -- Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has a complete line of flexible etch circuits designed to fill the gap between round wiring and printed circuit boards. You’ll have virtually unlimited freedom of electronic packaging geometries while retaining the precision density and repeatability of printed circuits. Design Kit lets you create prototype flexible circuits
Thinking of replacing conventional wiring with high density, reliable flexible circuits? Here’s an easy way to see if they are right for your application.
The kit includes a start-up guide, two sheets of polyester film to make your mock-up, a design kit sample case, a reference materials CD and an offer for a free mechanical sample of your design with actual flex circuit stack-up materials. The kit can be ordered online or by calling Minco at 763-571-3121. If you would like more information before ordering the kit, you can get a free copy the Flex Circuit Design Guide. Minco flex circuits offer a number of benefits:
Different styles of flex circuits offer different advantages and benefits. In addition to simpler, single layer flex circuits, Minco can design and manufacture double layer, multilayer, multilayer with no plated through-holes, rigid flex, Flex-Coils™ and integrated flex circuits that incorporate sensors or Thermofoil™ flexible heaters. In addition to a wide number of flex circuit styles, Minco offers many flex circuit design options including rigid-flex hybrid circuits, stiffeners, factory-forming, wave solder carriers, pins, coils, shielding, special electronics populations, selective bonding and integral connectors, heaters and sensors. Minco’s Quality Management System is certified to ISO 9001:2000/AS9100B. Minco flex circuits are proven. Successful installations can be found in the space shuttle engine controls, pacemakers, laser gyros, surgical tools, security detectors, the Trident II missile, and Mark 46 torpedoes. Minco documents, monitors and verifies all processes. Optional testing, cycling and micro-sectioning are available. The Minco Engineer2Engineer Community gives you ready access to engineers at Minco who are happy to discuss your flex circuit requirements. You can access this community via the website or phone 763-571-3121 for more information. About Minco | ||
published date: 03-10-2009 |
Minneapolis, Minn., November 11, 2008 -- Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has a Free Industry Guide for Medical Diagnostic and Implant Applications
Heaters, flex circuits and temp sensors proven in medical device designs.
This guide highlights the following:
This 8-page guide can ordered in print from Minco’s website or downloaded (http://www.minco.com/contactus/literaturerequest.aspx). The Minco Engineer2Engineer Community gives you ready access to engineers at Minco who are happy to discuss your medical device requirements. You can access this community via the website (http://www.minco.com), or phone 763-571-3121 for more information. About Minco | ||
published date: 03-10-2009 |
Minneapolis, Minn., August 1, 2008 -- Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has a new, Paragon Medsystems Becomes California MedTech
San Diego, CA – February 16, 2009: Paragon Medsystems unveiled their new corporate identity at the MDM West show last week in Anaheim. Effective immediately, the company name will be California MedTech. The name change comes after more than ten years of providing turnkey development and manufacturing services to the medical electronics sector. “The new name signifies our sole focus on the medtech sector, as well as our ongoing expansion throughout California,” comments California MedTech’s CEO, Brian Kelleher. “It reflects the culmination of our efforts to become a premier, full-service vendor to both start-ups and established companies,” continues Kelleher. “Over the past year, we completed the build-out of our 30,000 square foot facility in San Diego, established a design center in Silicon Valley, opened an office in Orange County, and fortified our alliances with manufacturing sites in Mexico and China. We now offer everything from concept development to clinical production, as well as verification & validation, compliance testing, finished goods warehousing, fulfillment and service,” states Kelleher. The company’s expanded services may fit well with the realities of the new economy. “Companies |
