Mar 8, 2019

The Hahn Group scooped up the IP and trademarks for the Sawyer collaborative robot and Intera software less than one month after Rethink Robotics Inc. shut down in October 2018. The German automation and robotics specialist, which has 30-plus years of automation experience, recently gave The Robot Report an exclusive look at how it plans to revitalize the Sawyer brand around… […] Qosina recently turned to Evonik’s Cryolite G-20 Hiflo acrylic-based copolymer compound to make its own specialized luer lock connector. “Delays in manufacturing were creating issues for us in terms of meeting customer demand in a timely fashion,” Geri Trautman, product development manager at Qosina, said in a March 4 news release. “So, after we started… […] Weiss-Aug recently announced that it has added a Laser Lab Technology Center to its surgical products division in Fairfield, N.J. The new laser-cutting and etching machines expand the company’s ability to meet product development demands. A precision metal-stamping, insert-molding and assembly company, Weiss-Aug said that precision laser cutting is faster, requires shorter setup, can process… […] Gerresheimer AG will build a new plant in Skopje, North Macedonia that will initially produce medical plastic systems, with prefillable glass syringes lines coming in a later expansion phase. Construction will start in the first half of 2019, the company said today. The plan is for construction to finish in the first half of 2020,… […] U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill to repeal the 2.3% federal excise tax on medical device sales, with a new co-sponsor. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) has signed on to co-sponsor, replacing Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who did not run for re-election last fall. The medical device tax went into… […] Biocoat (Horsham, Pa.) announced today that is has received a certification of registration for the ISO 13485:2016 quality management system. Company officials described the certification as reflecting an ongoing commitment to quality. Biocoat specializes in supplying lubricious hydrophilic coatings for medical devices used in a range of applications, including the neurovascular, cardiovascular, peripheral and ophthalmic… […] Blood-collection startup Tasso said it has completed a $6.1 million financing round led by Vertical Venture Partners (VVP), with participation from Techstars and Cedars-Sinai. The funding will help Tasso scale its first product, Tasso OnDemand, which enables self-collection of blood samples, and to add personnel to support commercial growth. Tasso OnDemand allows people to collect… […] GE Healthcare has signed an agreement to provide advanced analytics and reduce process variation for the 21-hospital Adventist Health system in California, Oregon and Hawaii, the health system announced. The five-year collaboration is designed to maximize the capacity of Adventist’s clinical assets and improve patient care delivery. Adventist said it expects the collaboration to spur… […] Medtech consulting and clinical research firm MCRA said it has hired Michael C. John, the former chief of FDA’s interventional cardiology devices branch, as its new vice president of cardiovascular regulatory affairs. At FDA, John supervised and led a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and healthcare professionals on the regulation of interventional cardiovascular Class II and… […] Startup CurvaFix said it has landed FDA 510(k) clearance for a device to aid orthopedic trauma surgery. The CurvaFix intramedullary rodscrew is a flexible device that is implanted through a small skin incision into the intramedullary space (center of the bone) and then converted into a rigid state to stabilize and repair a bone fracture.… […]