Buyer’s Guide 2012 Update: IV Components

Qosina has added a 10-ml open-bore syringe and two 20-ml open-ended syringes to its extensive product line. These syringes have an ABS plunger, a silicone plunger tip, and a shatter-resistant polycarbonate barrel that ensures visual clarity. Configured for easy filling at their distal end, they can be used with viscous materials.

Thuringia is home to a new biotech consortium working toward development of bioactive, functionally stable devices for medical implantation. The growth core, called Basis (for BioAnalytics and Surfaces for Integration in Systems), is organizing its first public workshop, to be presented in Erfurt, Germany, February 23 and 24.

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 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.

Buyer’s Guide 2012 Update: Electrical/Electronic Components

Though it looks like a high-quality remote control unit for a consumer item, and has comparable functionality, a wireless hand control for medical devices is based on technology developed by the Meditec business of Steute that is fundamentally different from that in the wireless devices used to operate stereo systems and garage doors.

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.