Pundits are again speculating about the future of the Affordable Care Act, more widely now referred to as Obamacare. Now that Republicans are poised to take over the Senate in January, while widening their control of the House, they are ...
Tags: Medical Device Tax, Medical Device
The Hello Kitty Birthday Lollipop whistle is said to feature small parts hazardous to young children. US McDonald’s is recalling 2.5 million Hello Kitty themed Happy Meal toys over concerns that children could choke on some of ...
Tags: Hello Kitty Toys, Toys
US-based producer of innovative custom-engineered components, products, and specialty packaging UFP Technologies has opened a new facility at El Paso, Texas. With this facility, the company has expanded its North American operations for ...
Sanner, a manufacturer of plastic packaging for pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products, has introduced a new solution called AdCap that claims to protect products from moisture. Easy-to-handle AdCap combines the benefits of ...
Tags: desiccant, moisture adsorption, Agriculture
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has commissioned two new expansions at its Rayong, Thailand manufacturing facility to serve the growing Asian market demand for specialty chemicals. Commissioning took place as part of part of the 10th ...
Tags: Chemicals, Asian market, specialty chemicals
Flexible packaging supplier Bemis Company has announced the sale of its global pressure sensitive materials business, MACtac to Platinum Equity for $170m. Bemis, that specialises in producing pressure sensitive materials for food, ...
Tags: pressure sensitive materials, MACtac business, Agriculture
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 (to 3 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $718.2m, up 22% on $587m last quarter and 51% on $477m a year ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors
Covidien described its new Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator as “simple, safe, and smart” when it won regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe in early 2014. But half a year later, it is now the subject of a Class I-level recall ...
Just a month after Dutch electronics giant Philips said it would separate its healthcare and lighting businesses, German industrial conglomerate Siemens has announced a similar strategy. Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser announced Thursday that ...
Tags: Siemens, Healthcare Business, Medical Device
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
Hospira continues to struggle with serious problems related to its GemStar Infusion System and its accessories. The latest bad news came Wednesday, when the FDA designated a recall of the GemStar Power Supply, 3VDC, as Class I. The ...
DB Schenker is opening a new freight forwarding facility to handle dry and perishable freight. The new Eagle Farm facility at Trade Coast Central, 9km from Brisbane’s International Airport, will enable the company to complement ...
Tags: DB Schenker, Cold Storage
Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc., the parent of Trotters and SoftWalk, reported sales from continuing operations for the third quarter increased $794,000 or 14.3 percent to $6.4 million compared to $5.6 million for the third quarter of fiscal ...
Tags: Phoenix Footwear, Sporting Goods
The Crewe-based business is to be managed by investment firm Sullivan Street Partners, and employs over 100 staff, producing printed cartons, leaflets and labels. The transaction was an undisclosed fee. Medica has a strong heritage of ...
Tags: Medica Packaging, cartons