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Advances in materials and manufacturing are leading to better implants, prosthetics, and devices. Browse innovative developments in materials and manufacturing that significantly impact medical device design and production.

R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Tiny Spectral Sensor Identifies Materials
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
New Products and Services
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Product Focus: Laser Marking/Machining

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Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

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White Papers: Medical
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Discover Nine Key Critical Capabilities for Medical Devices Manufacturers
In the highly regulated medical device industry, success relies on precision, compliance, and efficiency. Manufacturers need more than basic production control – it’s...

Products: Materials
See the product of the month: Plastic Ingenuity's validated thermoformed ready-to-use pharma tubs. The tubs are comparable to traditional injection molded tubs; however, they offer rapid development, a lower cost of entry, and material reductions.
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R&D: Materials
Research engineers are developing smart implants that can both monitor and promote healing in fractured bones. Read on to learn more.
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White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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Mixing Technologies in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Industries
This white paper presents an overview of mixing technologies implemented across many of today’s highly competitive pharmaceutical and medical industries, as well as new...

News: Regulations/Standards
ASTM International’s medical and surgical devices committee (F04) is developing a proposed standard for a wrought nickel-titanium alloy. The alloy covered by the...
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Blog: Design
As device designs become increasingly sophisticated, medtech companies are understandably seeking contract design and manufacturing partners that can accompany them on...
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Blog: Materials
The medical device industry constantly evaluates product and packaging materials and designs to meet business objectives, sustainability targets, and changing consumer preferences. Tactics...
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News: Medical
Recent successes in cultivating human heart tissue, knee cartilage, and pharmaceutical crystals in space have relied on technology that was initially developed decades ago with support from NASA.
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Global Innovations: Materials
A research team from the University of Freiburg and the Medical Center – University of Freiburg has developed a novel biomimetic speaking valve technology that could significantly increase the safety of tracheostomized patients. Read on to learn more.
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Products: Test & Measurement
See the new products and services, including a new reciprocating head for medical tubing from Guill Tool; EpoxySet's state-of-the-art UV adhesives, the UV-8675, specifically designed for bonding PVC tubing in medical devices; Mahr Inc.'s expanded length measurement product line; Zeus' latest addition to its StreamLiner series of ultra-thin-walled catheter liners; and more.
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Applications: Medical
Boston Scientific is a market leader in pacemakers, defibrillators, monitoring equipment, spinal and brain stimulation, stents, catheters, and ablation devices. Read on to learn how the company improved upon cardiac monitoring.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed a multifunctional sensor based on semiconductor fibers that emulates the five human senses. The technology developed in the study is expected to be utilized in fields such as wearables, Internet of Things (IoT), electronic devices, and soft robotics. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Medical
Researchers at University of Galway have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The breakthrough science focused on replicating heart tissues, bringing research closer to generating functional, bioprinted organs. Read on to learn more.
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R&D: Materials
Researchers are developing soft sensor materials based on ceramics. Such sensors can feel temperature, strain, pressure, or humidity, for instance, which makes them interesting for use in medicine, but also in the field of soft robotics. Read on to learn more.
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News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Panther Life Sciences, which develops shelf-stable treatments to deliver better health for all, has formed a strategic alliance...
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White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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A Faster Route to Custom-Design Molecular Diagnostic Instruments
This whitepaper delves into developing molecular diagnostics instruments, emphasizing the advantages of collaboration with experienced OEMs using platforms like Cavro® Omni Flex...

Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Auxilium Biotechnologies has successfully deployed its 3D bioprinter aboard the ISS. The platform is the first of its kind, making history by printing eight implantable medical devices simultaneously in just two hours.
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INSIDER: Medical
Intricon Corporation, developer and manufacturer of some of the world’s smallest, smartest medical devices powered by microelectronics, has announced a significant expansion at its St....
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INSIDER: Materials
In a time of evolving challenges and uncertainties, understanding the plastics marketplace has never been more critical for company leaders. A clear grasp of the industry’s current...
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medical Manufacturing Technologies (MMT) (Booths #2701 and #2808) is showcasing its automation, catheter, and guidewire manufacturing technologies at MD&M West. The company...
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INSIDER: Medical
Zeus (Booth 3001) is launching the latest addition to its StreamLiner series of ultra-thin-walled catheter liners. Using a new, proprietary film-cast process, the StreamLiner™ NG offers improved...
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INSIDER: Medical
BioInteractions (Booth 1701) is showcasing its newly launched Surface Active Therapeutics, a groundbreaking medical technology poised to revolutionize the safety and efficacy of medical...
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Nordson EFD (Booth 2715) is showcasing its PICO Nexμs jetting system at MD&M West. Medical device manufacturers can view this smart factory solution and its web-based interface for remote...
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INSIDER: Medical
Momentive Performance Materials (Booth 2427) is demonstrating its silicone elastomers for long-term implants at MD&M West. Momentive's ReliaSil UV product line combines the benefits of the ambient cure found in...
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INSIDER: Materials
WACKER Chemical Corporation (Booth 1815) is featuring its portfolio of silicone pressure-sensitive adhesives, gamma radiation sterilization techniques for silicones, and contract manufacturing...
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Products: Medical
See the new products and services, including an auto-zero valve from Superior Sensor Technology; binder's angled panel-mount connectors; AMADA WELD TECH's integration of blue laser technology into its suite of micro welding technologies; maxon's high-efficiency joint drive; and more.
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Briefs: Materials
A team at the Nanostructured and Novel Materials Laboratory at the University of Tabriz has created organic materials for brain and heart pacemakers that rely on uninterrupted signal delivery to be effective. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Materials
A team has reported that they used a class of widely available polymers called thermoplastic elastomers to create soft 3D printed structures with tunable stiffness. Engineers can design the print path used by the 3D printer to program the plastic’s physical properties so that a device can stretch and flex repeatedly in one direction while remaining rigid in another. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Materials
Published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers have created realistic, skin-like replicas made of Ecoflex, a type of silicone rubber that can potentially serve as a platform to evaluate risks of bacterial infections from intravenous catheters and test wearable sensors, among other biomedical applications. Read on to learn what the study found.
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Inside Story

Inside Story: Selecting and Implementing Automation Solutions
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To find out more about selecting and implementing automation solutions, MDB recently spoke with Dave McMorrow, Technical Director, MMT Automation and Michael Wall, Technical Director, Somex Automation, an MMT company.

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