Cleanroom Industry News
Pascal Medical Device Production Facility
Pascal Medical, who has purchased and installed twelve Husky systems to create a state-of-the-art medical device production facility in Dubna, Russia, with the goal of creating an industry-leading manufacturing organization, capable of replacing foreign-import medical products with premium quality domestic production.
Jenoptik Clean Room Expansion
Jenoptik Optical Systems, LLC, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance optical solutions, announces the expansion of its manufacturing operations in Florida. Jenoptik opened a new ISO 14644 Class 5 clean room with state-of-the-art filtration technology for high-precision optical assemblies to support applications with demanding cleanliness requirements like semiconductor and space flight instrumentation.
Germ Killing Robots Use UV radiation Killing Microorganisms
Germ-killing robots are being enlisted to further safeguard Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) patients from health care-associated infections. The robots will be deployed in selected inpatient areas, starting this month with the burn unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital.
Large Nanofacility at the University of Chicago
The Pritzker Foundation provided a generous a $15 million gift to develop the 10,000 square foot large nanofacility for the University of Chicago. The National Science Foundation provided an additional $5 million to establish the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental Resource, a partnership between UChicago and Northwestern University.
New Medical Devices Industry Handbook
he medical devices industry is one of the most highly regulated sectors in the world. Significant quality systems and product requirements must be satisfied to ensure the medical devices produced are fit for their intended purpose.
AMD Delivers Semi-Custom Graphics Chip For New Intel Processor
AMD today announced that it designed a semi-custom graphics processor unit (GPU) that will be integrated into a new Intel multi-chip processor package.
Aseptic Packaging innovation by BluStream
Serac specializes in the design and manufacturing of liquid filling and capping machines as well as blow molding equipment. With over 5200 machines installed in more than 100 countries, our customer base boasts a wide variety of machines in many different industries with a very diverse customer.
Torrent Pharma Acquires Unichem Labs India Business
Torrent Pharmaceuticals said on Friday it would buy more than 120 brands from Unichem Laboratories in India and Nepal, and its manufacturing plant at Sikkim.
Magnetic Biocompatible Photonic Crystals can be used both for Optics and Medicine
Researchers at ITMO University developed a new approach for obtaining non-toxic magnetic photonic crystals, expanding their applications from mainly photonics to biomedicine. Nanospheres made with the new method may be used for designing drugs to fight thrombosis and cancer.
Clinical Trial Services and High-Potency Compounds
Capsugel, now a Lonza company, a global leader in delivering high-quality, innovative dosage forms and solutions, today announced expanded clinical trial capabilities, as well as increased development and manufacturing capabilities for specialized drug products utilizing liquid-filled hard capsule (LFHC) technology, at its Edinburgh facility in Scotland.
Radiant 2-dimensional carbon nitride nanomaterials
2-dimesional nanomaterials that could be used to create light emitting diodes (LEDs) or solar cells have been made through the simple, but unconventional, method of spontaneous dissolution.
Fosun Pharmaceutical to buy French drug distributor Tridem
Fosun Pharmaceutical to buy French drug distributor Tridem. The pharmaceuticals arm of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International has agreed to buy Tridem, an Africa-focused French drug distributor, for up to €63m ($73.1m).