Medical Design and Outsourcing

Heraeus Medical Components (St. Paul, Minn.) and Toronto-based Myant have entered a partnership enabling Myant to use Heraeus’ Tectitoat for electrical sensing applications in textiles, the companies announced today. Tecticoat is a conductive polymer-based coating that can be applied to textiles to control electrical conductivity, electromagnetic shielding and electrostatic dissipation, making it suitable for integration…

Cook Medical recently announced the U.S. launch of its TriForce peripheral crossing set to support vascular obstruction procedures. The TriForce set is designed to be percutaneously introduced into blood vessels to support a wire guide while performing a peripheral intervention, according to the Bloomington, Ind.-based company. This device is also intended for injection of radiopaque…

Guill said today it has added a new version of its 800 series extrusion tooling. Engineers at Guill developed the 800 Series Hybrid to overcome challenges that can occur in some extrusion applications.  For example, in some applications that use crossheads and inlines, layers of the exact same material are applied multiple times, using a…

Contract manufacturer Micro (Somerset, N.J.) this week announced its 75th anniversary in business. Founded in 1945 as Micro Stamping Corp. in Maplewood, N.J., the family-owned company specializes in precision medical components, sub-assemblies and complete devices for laparoscopic surgical procedures. Operations have expanded from 28,000-square feet to nearly 180,000-square feet, and the company recently dedicated an…