Manufacturing & Packaging News

31. EOS And 3D-Micromac Form Micro Laser Sintering Technology Partnership 12/9/2013

    3D-Micromac AG in Chemnitz, a leading provider of highly efficient laser micromachining systems, and EOS GmbH, a technology and market leader for design-driven, integrated e-Manufacturing solutions in additive manufacturing, are bringing their respective technological know-how in the area Micro Laser Sintering technology (MLS) into a new corporation.

32. Sealed Air Corporation Announces Sale Of Rigid Medical Packaging Business 11/13/2013

    Sealed Air Corporation announced recently it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its rigid medical packaging business to a private equity firm, Mason Wells Buyout Fund III, L.P. Sealed Air expects to receive proceeds of $125M from the sale.

33. Femtosecond Laser Micromachining Of Next-Generation Implantable Medical Devices Demonstrated 10/30/2013

    Palmaz Scientific, Spectra-Physics and Innovative Laser Technologies (ILT) announce the demonstration of femtosecond laser micromachining of next-generation implantable medical devices.

34. Study Finds Natural Compound Can Be Used For 3-D Printing Of Medical Implants 10/23/2013

    Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers. The compound is riboflavin, which is better known as vitamin B2.

35. Need Different Types Of Tissue? Just Print Them! 10/1/2013

    What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs. Now scientists have further refined the technology and are able to produce various tissue types.

36. International Accreditation For MET's Packaging Testing Laboratory 8/17/2013

    ISO 17025 is the laboratory equivalent of ISO 13845. This quality management system extends ISO 9001 to ensure that test samples, processes, data and analyses are all tightly controlled

37. World Medical Device Packaging Market 8/7/2013

    World medical device packaging product demand will increase 5.9 percent yearly to $25.7 billion in 2017.

38. MOCON Partners With Australia's Inspection Systems To Create New Certified Package-Testing Lab 4/4/2013

    MOCON, Inc. and Inspection Systems, Melbourne, Australia have partnered to establish a certified lab for permeation, seal strength and leak detection testing for food and pharmaceutical packaging structures.

39. MOCON Announces New European Healthcare Initiative To Assist Pharma, Sterile Device Companies In Commercializing Products 1/28/2013

    MOCON, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of package integrity instrumentation, is announcing its new European healthcare market initiative. The company will be placing increased effort on helping pharmaceutical, medical device, life science and related companies improve package material selection and testing process.

40. MOCON Announces New Corporate, Subsidiary Branding To Support Growing Global Business 1/8/2013

    MOCON, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of package integrity instrumentation, is introducing new corporate branding to better support its subsidiaries and global footprint.