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Buyer’s Guide 2010 Update: Materials

Eastman Chemical is collaborating with the design company DD Studio in exploring strategic, human-centric innovations for the medical technology industry and other markets. Within the terms of the partnership, DD Studio and Eastman will investigate new medical device applications for Eastman’s Tritan copolyesters.

Buyer’s Guide 2010 Update: Electrical/Electronic Components

The powerful SD-330 and SD-250 thermoelectric cooling units from AMS Technologies AG are suitable for cooling laser diode modules in medical and industrial applications. These reliable solid-state units eliminate the need for water cooling. User benefits include safety, reduced fan noise, and cooling output as high as 330 W.

Riegler GmbH & Co. KG. Riegler has been a development partner for plastic system solutions in medical technology for more than 60 years. Plastic items, assemblies and ready-for-sale kits are manufactured at three production sites. The company supports projects right from the development and design phase. It has an in-house mould construction department as well as clean-room manufacturing capabilities in injection moulding, extrusion blow moulding and assembly. The company manufactures products for use in laboratory, research, dental, ophthalmologic and other applications under a quality management system certified to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 and the medical device standard ISO 13485:2003.

Buyer’s Guide 2010 Update: Electrical/Electronic Components

TDK-Lambda has expanded its EFE300M range of power packs with the addition of three new models. These extremely compact and highly efficient 300-W medical power packs featuring digital control have nominal set points of 28 V/10.71 A, 40 V/7.5 A and 48 V/6.25 A. Their digital control makes them small and cool.

Automated Packaging Systems (APS). Medical pouches featuring the sterile barrier system of APS are on display at Medtec. Offered for the machine-supported packaging of small medical products at rates to 80 pouches per minute, these pouches are designed to replace the costly manual packaging frequently practiced. They consist of a combination of medical paper and PE film and allow for sterilization of the packaged product by means of gas, formaldehyde or radiation. Using APS’s HD packaging machine, also on show in Stuttgart, packagers can fill the pouches semi- or fully automatically and seal them thermally.

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Donatelle. Donatelle has been offering product development and production services in the medical technology field for more than 40 years. The company helps customers that market complex products, including, for example, sophisticated assemblies, implantable devices and items with narrow tolerances, such as those made from exotic materials. The service provider is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 and is FDA compliant. Its comprehensive range of capabilities extends from product design to sterilization and comprises rapid prototyping, tool manufacturing, injection moulding of plastics, silicone injection moulding, micro–injection moulding, processing, assembly and packaging.