Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices, recently extended its family of 50V discrete GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) die with the release of three new ...
Tags: electron drift velocity, gallium arsenide technologies, Electrical
SMC Ltd., a medical device contract manufacturer with locations in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, Costa Rica, and India, announced an expansion and move to a 210,000 sq. ft. facility in Devens, MA. The expansion will ...
Tags: high-speed automation, testing, kitting, Health
Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
Tags: self-reporting, lab tests, Health
Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on January 12, 2015 The Irish High Court has agreed to hold a hearing January 26 to decide on the proposed $48 billion merger between Medtronic and Covidien, according to a Monday ...
Tags: Medical Device Business, U.S.tax, Health
Schutt Sports, a leading manufacturer of football and lacrosse helmets, and Brain Sentry, a leader in the emerging wearable impact sensor market, today announced that Schutt will offer sensor-enhanced football helmets starting with the 2015 ...
China plans to levy a resources tax on coal based on sales value instead of production volume, as well as scrapping arbitrary levies on coal miners starting from December 1, taxation and fiscal authorities said over the weekend. ...
Tags: Resources Tax, Coal
Privately held laser and photonics company Sheaumann Laser Inc of Marlborough, MA, USA has acquired Axcel Photonics Inc in a stock and cash transaction, effective from 1 January. Axcel is a multidisciplinary semiconductor laser ...
Tags: industrial, medical, military, Electrical
Posted in Mobile Health by Nancy Crotti on January 7, 2015 A little more than a year ago, a top executive of Qualcomm Life predicted that smartphones would one day be considered medical devices. Qualcomm's 2Net Hub is a ...
Tags: smartphones, medical devices, Health
Posted in Medical Device Business by Nancy Crotti on January 8, 2015 The medical device tax is the issue that won’t go away. Elected officials and medical device companies began railing against Obamacare’s medical device tax ...
Tags: medical device tax, Health
Posted in Medical Device Business by Brian Buntz on January 8, 2015 Pete Nicholas, who co-founded Boston Scientific with John Abele in 1979, has announced that he intends to resign from the firm’s board of directors in 2017. ...
Husky Injection Molding Systems will be showcasing its latest technologies for the beverage packaging, medical and hot runner markets at NPE 2015. The company will exhibit a HyPET HPP5 system running at its booth which is a fully ...
Tags: beverages, sauces, food products, Agriculture
Posted in Medical Device Business by Nancy Crotti on January 6, 2015 Shareholders of Medtronic and Covidien on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the companies’ multibillion-dollar merger, which will create a new Medtronic based in ...
Teleflex Medical OEM Teleflex Medical OEM announces the launch of a dramatically redesigned version of its website. Wayne, PA Teleflex Medical OEM, a global leader in medical product development and manufacturing, announces the launch ...
Tags: critical care, surgery, Health
Talon Innovations “Company affirms commitment to Korea, China and Southeast Asia” Talon Innovations Corporation, a provider of Precision Machined Products and Assemblies for the Semiconductor, Medical Device, Aerospace and ...
Tags: Medical Device, Health
Talon Innovations “CNC Tube Bending now added to Custom Machining Capabilities” Talon Innovations, a provider of Precision Machined Products and Assemblies for the Semiconductor, Medical Device, Aerospace and other ...