Buyer’s Guide 2012 Update: Manufacturing Equipment

Nordson EFD supplies a wide range of printing and dosing solder pastes as an all-in-one solution with dosing equipment. The pastes are used particularly in medical engineering for manufacturing such devices as inhalation devices for asthma patients. Products include PrintPlus printable pastes and SolderPlus dosable solder pastes.

A major challenge for manufacturers of artificial tissue for implantation is the provision of multiple cell layers that can be fed nutrients via a supply system. This is the focus of efforts by a consortium of 16 European industrial and research partners under the direction of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT).

Buyer’s Guide 2012 Update: Manufacturing Equipment

Otec Präzisionsfinish GmbH supplies drag-finishing systems. The company has developed special mass-finishing processes for drag finishing that enable users to give artificial hip and knee joints a homogeneous, very flat, and precisely fitting contact surface. Series DF drag-finishing units perform both wet grinding and dry polishing.

Buyer’s Guide 2012 Update: Manufacturing Equipment

In cooperation with Engel and Transcoject, Zahoransky is exhibiting an adhesive-free, fully automatic production line for disposable syringes at the Medtec fair in Stuttgart. Zahoransky has developed a highly efficient needle separating system (the NFS) for this purpose, which can process as many as 400 needles per minute.

An introduction to medical device law and current legal issues will be provided by MedInform on March 27 and 28, 2012, in Bonn, via the “Foundation and Advanced Seminar on Medical Device Law.” MedInform is the medical technology information and seminar service organized by BVMed, which supplies the seminar moderator.

Buyer’s Guide 2012 Update: Manufacturing Services

Teleflex Medical OEM, a global leader in surgical instruments for orthopaedic and spinal procedures, has introduced a high-performance device specifically designed for cutting extremely strong cobalt chromium and titanium rods. Custom-configured rod cutters are the sort of products the contractor specializes in developing and producing.