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MD&M West: Here are 4 things you may have missed

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Freudenberg Medical Composer MD&M West
Freudenberg Medical at this year’s MD&M West touted its Composer deflectable catheter handle platform. Company officials described the platform as a way to take the handle out of the equation for catheter system creators. [Image courtesy MDO videographer Brad Voyten]
From 3M‘s adhesive-finding tool to help wearable designers to OnRobot‘s energy-efficient vacuum gripper, there were plenty of useful tools for medical device creators to discover at this year’s MD&M West in Anaheim, Calif.

As managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing, I toured the show floor to point out some of the highlights, which also included Omron‘s next-generation manufacturing technologies and Freudenberg Medical‘s Composer catheter handle platform.

Watch our video, and also read our roundup with more highlights from the annual show, which is one of the largest medical device manufacturing events in the world.