Schott recently announced that it has completed the next expansion stage at its pharmaceutical glass tubing site in Jinyun, China. The company completed construction at the site in just 15 months despite the COVID-19 pandemic, with production starting in November 2020. The plant is meant to create a solid production base for high-quality … [Read more...] about Schott expands Chinese glass tubing plant
Catheter & Medical Design and VitalDyne Medical rebrand as VitalPath
Catheter & Medical Design and VitalDyne Medical — makers of complex medical catheter systems — have rebranded under the name VitalPath. The move comes about five months after CMD's March 2021 acquisition of VitalDyne. “After joining forces with VitalDyne, we wanted to develop a name that would represent our shared energy around our … [Read more...] about Catheter & Medical Design and VitalDyne Medical rebrand as VitalPath
Catheter & Medical Design announces business development hires
Complex catheter systems creator Catheter & Medical Design (Roseville, Minn.) recently announced it's hired two industry experts into business development roles. Rich Abraham is CMD’s new East Coast business development director. Abraham founded TDC Medical in 2004. After the sale of TDC Medical to Vention in 2009, Abraham served as business … [Read more...] about Catheter & Medical Design announces business development hires
Junkosha touts cable product innovations to enable ‘intelligent’ catheters
Junkosha officials think the company's Junkosha Multi-Filar Cable and Junkosha Multi-Channel Transmission Cable (MCT) could bring the medical device industry closer to "intelligent" catheters. The increasingly sophisticated catheters — small and flexible — can better send diagnostic signals into the body or provide therapy, according to Mike … [Read more...] about Junkosha touts cable product innovations to enable ‘intelligent’ catheters
Zeus Industrial Products brings in CathX Medical
Zeus Industrial Products has agreed to integrate catheter-based contract manufacturer CathX Medical into its organization. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed in yesterday's announcement. San Jose, Calif.–based CathX provides catheter design engineering services, rapid prototyping, manufacturing, and full or … [Read more...] about Zeus Industrial Products brings in CathX Medical
Zeus Industrial Products founder passes away
Frank Paul Tourville Sr. — who founded Zeus 54 years ago and built it into a major provider of advanced medical tubing products — recently passed away at age 87. The Orangeburg, S.C.–based company in its announcement of Tourville's March 16 death described him as a well-known and highly regarded visionary in the polymer extrusion … [Read more...] about Zeus Industrial Products founder passes away
Argon Medical Devices launches snare catheter
Argon Medical Devices (Frisco, Texas) today announced the U.S. launch of its Halo single-loop snare kits. The snare catheter's creators designed it to provide both accuracy and reliability when retrieving and manipulating foreign objects from the cardiovascular system or hollow viscus, according to Argon Medical Devices. "We are excited to … [Read more...] about Argon Medical Devices launches snare catheter
FDA committee to examine safety of endovascular stent grafts
FDA’s CDRH Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee will meet later this year to examine the safety of endovascular stent grafts made by Endologix and other companies. Day one of the meeting will examine the benefit-risk profile of the Endologix AFX endovascular graft system regarding a potentially … [Read more...] about FDA committee to examine safety of endovascular stent grafts
FDA approves Medtronic’s Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve system
FDA has approved a Medtronic device described as a first-in-the-world, non-surgical heart valve to treat severe pulmonary valve regurgitation — a condition often arising from congenital heart disease. The Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve system could delay the time before someone with congenital heart disease might need additional … [Read more...] about FDA approves Medtronic’s Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve system
Cook Medical wins FDA breakthrough device designation for next-gen endovascular graft
Cook Medical announced that FDA has granted breakthrough device designation for its Zenith Fenestrated+ endovascular graft (ZFEN+), the next-gen version of its Zenith Fenestrated AAA endovascular graft. The designation — a first for Bloomington, Ind.–based Cook Medical — will enable priority review and better communication with FDA during the … [Read more...] about Cook Medical wins FDA breakthrough device designation for next-gen endovascular graft
