Friday, May 10th, 2013 | Permalink
All Sites If you’re an attendee of a conference, of any kind, typically the drama factor is pretty low, especially toward the end of the day when people are more concerned about if they will order steak or fish at dinner and if a bottle of wine is a bit excessive for a Tuesday night. read more
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A messy battle: Disparate groups work to solve full-wrap shrink sleeve label recycling issues
Friday, May 10th, 2013 | Permalink
All Sites According to a company with a vested interest in the situation, the newly imposed federal excise tax on medical devices is having an unfortunate consequence–relocation of manufacturing from the United States to Mexico. It’s not a tax dodge–the tax still has to be paid. Moving to Mexico is a way to cut costs, according to an outfit called Co-Production International, a California company that is glad to help companies make the move. read more
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Medical Musings: The latest cliche is ‘near shoring’
Friday, May 10th, 2013 | Permalink
It has been said that conventional electric vehicles need to break out of their current design shell of essentially being based on conventional gasoline-powered chassis and body design, with a battery tossed in below the floorboards in place of an engine. Failing which, they won’t enjoy significant market penetration. Renault’s latest electric concept car may hint at what’s in store. Tagging Options Domain: All Sites read more
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My kind of [electric] car
Thursday, May 9th, 2013 | Permalink
TEQ Thermoform Engineered Quality is installing four Kiefel thermoforming machines, including two lines in a second ISO 8 level (Class 100,000) cleanroom at its headquarters plant in Huntley, IL, 50 miles northwest of Chicago. Tagging Options Domain: All Sites Issue Date: PT – May 2013 Keywords: TEQ reshoring thermoforming Kiefel read more
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TEQ lands medical reshoring job, adds three machines
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 | Permalink
In a sign of the times, two different papers at ANTEC last month explored the potential of improving manufacturing processes for plastic scaffolds used in tissue engineering, that is the synthetic production of new human organs. One paper looked at use of injection molding microcellular foam, or MuCell, and the other looked at thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) because of its value in producing highly porous scaffolds with interconnected structures. Tagging Options Domain: All Sites Keywords: scaffolds MuCell implants read more
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MuCell molding shows promise for implantable scaffolds