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How medtech is tackling supply chain challenges

April 15, 2022 By Tom Salemi

Join us at DeviceTalks Boston on May 10-11 to hear how medical device companies are propping open supply lines and ensuring a steady flow of products to customers in a constantly changing world. Sharing best practices is more important than ever because supply chain challenges aren’t expected to diminish post-pandemic. That’s because superstorms, fires, droughts and other extreme […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Respiratory Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Climate change, coronavirus, COVID-19, DePuy Synthes, DeviceTalks Boston, Johnson & Johnson, supply chain, Vapotherm, viant

Contract manufacturers fuel medtech expansion in Costa Rica

June 18, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Medical device manufacturing is flourishing in the Central American country, spurred by a host of incentives. This year is seeing a wave of expansions by medtech contract manufacturers in Costa Rica. Medtech OEMs have made the Central American company a manufacturing hub since the 1990s. Major companies operating there include Abbott, Bayer, Boston Scientific, Cardinal […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured Tagged With: Biomerics, CINDE, Costa Rica, Freudenberg Medical, Resonetics, SMC, sterigenics, Steris Corp., viant

Dems seek to force EPA action on ethylene oxide monitoring

July 30, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Democrats in both houses of Congress have introduced legislation that would force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to better monitor emissions of ethylene oxide (EtO) from plants that manufacture the toxic gas or use it to sterilize medical devices. The Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020, sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester […]

Filed Under: Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Regulatory/Compliance, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: B. Braun, Becton Dickonson, coronavirus, COVID-19, Croda, Edwards Lifesciences, ethylene oxide, Medline Industries Inc., sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, viant

Viant to cease ethylene oxide sterilization at Michigan plant by year’s end

December 4, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Viant Medical has signed a consent order to stop sterilizing medical devices using ethylene oxide (EtO) at its plant in Grand Rapids, Mich. by Dec. 31, 2020, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). Viant also agreed to stop using ethylene oxide (EtO) at the plant by Jan. 31,  to conduct monthly air […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Legal News, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: ethylene oxide, FDA, Michigan Department of Environment Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), viant

Lean product launch: 3 ways 3P events can boost efficiency and speed to market

November 1, 2019 By Sponsored Content

By Todd Clark, Program Manager, Viant Get a diverse group of smart people in a room and present them with a challenge. Add brainstorming and collaboration. At the end of the day, the best ideas rise to the top and breakthrough concepts emerge. That’s the magic of a Lean Production Preparation Process (3P) event. For […]

Filed Under: Sponsored Content Tagged With: viant

A ‘rolling effect’ on medtech sterilization plants?

October 3, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

The types of regulatory hurdles that contributed to the permanent closure this week of the Sterigenics medtech sterilization plant in Willowbrook, Ill., have created a “rolling effect” on ethylene oxide (EO) plants around the country, according to an industry official. The state of Illinois temporarily shut down the Willowbrook plant in February over emissions of EO, a […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: AdvaMed, becton dickinson, ethylene oxide, FDA, sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, viant

Viant acquires Meraqi Medical

September 11, 2019 By Sean Whooley

Viant announced today that it has acquired Meraqi Medical marking the medical device contract manufacturer’s fourth acquisition in two years. Viant said the acquisition of Fremont, Calif.-based Meraqi will expand its range of interventional technologies, bioelectronics and minimally invasive surgical devices. It will also offer a West Coast design and development hub to compliment Viant’s […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: viant

Ethylene oxide plant reopening won’t halt FDA plans to seek alternatives

July 18, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

The FDA will continue its efforts to find alternative medical device sterilization methods to ethylene oxide (EO), even though a major EO plant is slated to reopen. Yesterday, medtech sterilization company Sterigenics and the state of Illinois announced they had reached a proposed consent agreement to reopen a plant in Willowbrook, Ill., which the state shut down in […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Legal News, News Well, Research & Development, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: AdvaMed, FDA, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Nelson Laboratories, sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, viant

Life in the fast lane: 3 lean tools to speed products to market

May 2, 2019 By Sponsored Content

By Don Welling, Sr. Director of Technical Solutions, Viant The average driver can change a tire in about 20 minutes. A NASCAR pit crew can change all four tires in less than 20 seconds, thanks to the right tools and processes. Of all the tools used in NASCAR racing, the air wrench has saved the […]

Filed Under: Sponsored Content Tagged With: viant

EO plant shutdown leads to pediatric breathing tube shortage

April 12, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

The February shutdown of an ethylene oxide (EO) sterilization plant has produced the first temporary medical device shortage, according to the FDA. The device in short supply is the Bivona tracheostomy tube manufactured by Smiths Medical and used by many pediatric patients. The FDA anticipates the tube will be made available again the week of April 22, according to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Hospital Care, News Well, Pediatrics, Respiratory, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), FDA, Smiths Medical, sterigenics, viant

Another medtech sterilization plant will close in 2019

March 26, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

A second medical device sterilization plant is slated to close this year, prompting the FDA and medtech manufacturers to scramble for replacements. The FDA warned on March 1 about a potential medical device shortage due to the recent shutdown of a Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook, Ill. linked to emissions of the highly carcinogenic chemical compound ethylene oxide. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Outsourcing, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), FDA, sterigenics, viant

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